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Tibet is Burning: Is the Freedom Movement Entering a New Phase?

By Tsering Namgyal

…e self-immolation by young Tibetans has triggered outrage and protests by exiled Tibetans around the world—a Global Day of Action is scheduled for November 2. Why are Tibetan youth dousing themselves in kerosene and setting themselves alight in such large numbers? It is quite clear that the situation inside Tibet is pretty grim. And it has been bad for a long time. The “Arab Spring” has galvanized freedom movements around the world and Tibet is n…

Rest in Peace, Sam Huntington

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…on in a powerful way. The article was immediately published in full in the New York Times and an expanded version was published within two years as a book. Huntington’s “clash of civilization” idea became popular not just in the United States and to a lesser extent in Europe, but also—perhaps surprisingly—in non-Western parts of the world. In China, scores of books were published about what they called “the Huntington thesis,” which impressed the…

Paul for the People: John Dominic Crossan Imagines a “Letter to the Americans” In His New Video Series

By Peter Laarman

…was traditional, has become inadequate and unbelievable. I have found the experience to be exhilarating and very valuable, although it was something that simply happened to me without my having plotted and planned it. Today I would go so far as to say that scholarly research on the Bible is inadequate or irrelevant if at least some of the scholars do not communicate their insights to laypeople who are eager to think and who are aware that baptism…

A Pale Glimpse of Moon

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e voice. “It’s the new dark ages.” How was this heard in Rome, in the context of the new conservatism, the new oligarchy, and the new barbarism of the second regime of Roberto Berlusconi? They can burn books, records, and they can torch the environment. And how, by contrast, was it heard by me, an expatriate North American, who heard these same images—of burned books and new dark ages—when given voice by a bright young man from San Francisco? They…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…tutions where such freedom is not actively encouraged. Sometimes the self-exiled form their own new church or sect, but just as often they find it possible to get along very well without any organized religion (religio = binding) in their lives. Protestantism spawns free thought and free radicals (some of them toxic) the way a prism breaks light into uncountable and unclassifiable hues. So while it is definitely not fair to count the great unchurc…

‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ts Watch has urged the South Korean government to halt the roll-out of its new sex education policy in order to revised it to include information on sexual minorities. The Ministry of Education began training district education officers on new sex education guidelines that “exclude any mention of homosexuality or sexual minorities.” The new policy contradicts South Korea’s support for Human Rights Council resolutions calling for an end to discrimi…

Conservative-Preacher-Turned-Progressive-Leader Carlton Pearson Finds a New Home, Ministry in Chicago

By Jonathan L. Walton

…on. The problem seems to be his Pentecostal roots coupled with his lack of New Thought training. Pearson believes his inclusionist perspective to be consistent with New Thought teachings, however. Both affirm the radical, inclusive love of God and the divine potential within humanity. But, most importantly, if Christ Universal needs a leader with the proven charisma to lead a multimillion dollar religious empire and the stamina to endure criticism…

Romanian Exorcist Released from Prison, Becomes New Folk Devil

By Joseph Laycock

…The case became an embarrassing symbol of a “superstitious” past that the new Romania and the Orthodox Church were attempting to leave behind. Corogeanu and the nuns who assisted him were excommunicated. Romanian media described him as a “red-bearded killer” aided by “idolatrous nuns.” There is some evidence that Cornici’s death may have been prevented if the paramedics that the nuns called to the monastery had not administered a high volume of a…

Covering Religion in The New Year: The Atheist Bus And More

By Diane Winston

…he backdrop for Armageddon. Or maybe on American Muslims and Jews modeling new relationships? How to find these stories? I’d look for chinks in religious, philanthropic and communal groups: new ways of looking at longstanding problems, young leaders offering alternative visions, and philanthropists supporting new models. These stories need to be teased out online or pursued on the ground—venues far from the politicos, pundits and PACs that have do…

The Environmental Politics of Vodou, New Orleans Style

By Joseph Laycock

…, environmentalists, policy specialists, and a Vodou priestess gathered in New Orleans to discuss new models of water management in Southern Louisiana. The symposium, which coincided with the seventh annual Anba Dlo Halloween festival, is important for a city under the constant threat of flooding. (Anba Dlo is a Haitian creole term meaning “beneath the waters.”) But the symposium was also important moment for Afro-Caribbean religions in America. F…