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10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…Yoga: The Art of Transformation” exhibition travelled to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum and finally to the Cleveland Museum of Art. The exhibition served as the first major art survey of yoga in the United States and provided visual representations of yoga’s complex, dynamic history, ranging from philosopher-ascetics turning inward in pursuit of salvation through realization of the true self; to ecstatic devotees turning outward in pursuit of…

Fake, Evil, Spiritual, Commodified; What’s the Truth About Popular Yoga?

By Andrea R. Jain

…of yoga as an acceptable consumer choice. Yet, Selling Yoga illuminates a number of growing movements that oppose popularized yoga and even sometimes court fear of it. Some Christians, including Albert Mohler (President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), Pat Robertson (television evangelist and founder of the Christian Coalition of America), and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Roman Catholic Church, warn about th…

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…f one wants other Christ figures, one must explicitly type “black Jesus,” “Asian Jesus,” “Chicano Jesus.” The color of Christ continues to reflect our racial realities and fantasies. In post-racial America that means rhetoric of being beyond color but still beholden to history and power of whiteness. Joanna Brooks: I think we’re all agreed that post-racial just… isn’t. But I’m thinking too about the multidimensional influence of race on faith. T…

No Fireworks, Only Candles: Our Work as Americans and Muslims

By Ayesha Mattu

…Hank Williams. Our friends are second-generation American Muslims of South Asian, Arab, and African heritage, white converts, and beautiful toddlers of interracial marriages. Watching them interact, I am content, and hopeful for our future here. My husband and I push the stroller through the neighborhood after our friends leave. The festival is officially over but children are still dancing on a wooden floor as the crew dismantles the stage behind…

What Connects Racism, Misogyny and Faith? Community. And That’s a Bad Thing

By Daniel Schultz

…t to deflect from the identities of the dead. As well, they emphasize ways Asian women are hypersexualized, even fetishized, and made racially ‘other’ in American culture. It was no accident, they say, that such a rampage focused on immigrant women. This doesn’t deny that the suspect’s malignant sexual background played a role in the shootings, so much as it puts it in a broader context. Misogyny and racism aren’t irreconcilable explanations, in o…

Living Between Worlds: Muslim, American, Five Percenter

By Hussein Rashid

…ring the idea that W.D. Fard, founder of the Nation of Islam, was of South Asian descent. While I remain unconvinced of this, Knight marshals here and elsewhere, a broad array of evidence. Early on, he also actively discounts any potential evidence for an Arab background for Fard. However, at the end of the text, as he explores the intellectual precursors to the Five Percent, he most closely aligns them with Arab movements, which is where my sympa…

Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…and HIV as twinned issues in, for example, your 2010 book Names, Not Just Numbers: Facing Global Aids and World Hunger. I have to admit I love the title and its humane thrust. What do you see as the core reasons these issues are related? I already touched on this in response to an earlier question, when I sought to demonstrate the link between hunger and HIV. Let me expand my comments a bit. People who are HIV positive and who lack appropriate tr…

The Islamophobia Election: How “Muslim” Became a Racial Identity

By Michael Schulson

…y diverse in the United States. They’re white, they’re Arab, they’re South Asian, they’re African-American. It is not to say that Muslim has become a racial category. It’s just that a Muslim identity has been racialized. It has imposed newer racial meaning to these bodies of people who already occupy a specific racial category. I think the strongest case is when a white convert—for example, a white woman who is born and raised in America—is consid…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…place of gay people and families in Catholicism. Boorstein reports that a number of pro-LGBT groups have been denied permission to have a booth in the exhibition hall at the World Meeting. Among them was Fortunate Families, a group for Catholic parents seeking equality for their LGBT children. Its president, Deb Word, and her husband run a safe house for LGBT youth in Memphis. The World Meeting’s director of programming, Mary Beth Yount, told Wor…

When Welcoming the Stranger Was Not Just a Religious Value

By Melissa Borja

…ntary agencies were responsible for nearly three-quarters of all Southeast Asian refugee cases. These agencies performed critical functions in the resettlement system: they aided refugees in the camps overseas, helped to prepare refugees for a new life in America, and secured sponsorships by individuals and organizations. At the local level, congregations provided abundant manpower, material resources, and moral commitment. Volunteers sheltered an…