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When Religious Disagreement Seems the Least of Our Problems: The Future for “Interfaith” in a Divided Society

By Michael Schulson

…ery player faces. Later, in a wonderful aside, Patel describes reading the New York Times each morning and trying to imagine how people he knows might read those same articles. What implications would this piece of news have in this religious community? These are compassionate exercises for concerned citizens. But I do not think that they make a serious prescription for pluralism. Much of Patel’s small-town case study takes place in a high school,…

You Are Not Your Star Sign

By Spencer Dew

…his arms. Ophiuchus has long been part of sidereal astrology (dominant in India, among other places), but absent from the traditionally twelve-signed tropical system most popular with American newspapers until now, with the revised map of the night sky and its influence on human destiny. Just as the revision of the Zodiac had induced popular outcry—people who had long self-identified as melodramatically emotional Pisces were suddenly told, for in…

The Risks of Remaining Neutral on Egypt

By Haroon Moghul

…Need for Collective Self-Esteem Unlike Third World countries like Brazil, India, and China, many Muslim-majority societies traded their organic traditions for authoritarian states that have brought little economic benefit or sense of dignity. (At least a Chinese citizen can reconcile an absence of political freedoms with an obvious escape from poverty). Egypt is, in this sense, the most excellent example. Hosni Mubarak has presided over the impov…

Zeitgeist A Blend Of Skepticism, Metaphysical Spirituality, and Conspiracy

By Michael J. Altman

…, Moses is just another in a long line of law givers that includes Manu of India, Minos of Greece, and Mises of Egpyt. (See, they even all start with M, the film points out, suggesting a mysterious connection.) Similarly, the Ten Commandments are a derivative version of passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. For Zeitgeist, there’s nothing new under the sun-worshipers. The Bible is an “Astrotheological Literary Hybrid.” At the conclusion of P…

How to Meet Muslims: A (Cinematic) Primer

By Haroon Moghul

…wn Planet Probably a third of the world’s Muslims live in or come from the Indian subcontinent, such as this writer, descended from the steamy plains of the Punjab but raised in gelid New England. And South Asia’s a part of the world we never stop hearing about. Of course, most of this attention is directed to Pakistan, so let’s start there. In Silent Waters, we follow a young man from a small village impressed by the Islamist message coming from…

For God or for Fame? The Making of a Teenage Bomber

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…emony, he retorted, “[I]magine every day we see you know in our, you know, newspapers and news you know our people are killed you know. So for us to see them in the same…” Mohamud wanted to be an actor of consequence in a media-defined reality, the virtual landscape created by our media in which the only Muslim actors are stereotypically either militants or victims of American neo-imperialism. It is only in this virtual landscape that it becomes s…

Evangelical Islamophobia as American as Apple Pie

By Shalom Goldman

…election to make Islam a campaign issue. Back in August he sought to make New York’s Park51 community center a Florida issue. “I’m totally against it. If I had my way, it would pretty much be over my dead body. That religion is against everything America stands for. If we have to let them build it, make them build it nine stories underground, so we can walk above it as citizens and Christians.” [For a survey of these and other Islam-related elect…

Ponzi Pastor, Bacon Terrorism, & Spiritual Jewelry

By Michael J. Altman

…h. Some Christian pastors are trying to bring more humor to the pulpit. In New York, a Department of Transportation supervisor talked a man down from jumping off a bridge by reminding the jumper of his Christian faith. A former pastor in Indiana is going to trial for 10 counts of securities fraud after he defrauded parishioners in a Ponzi scheme. Archaeologists unearthed an 1800-year-old statue of the Buddha in India. In Iowa, a pastor is praying…

Closing with Gospel in Morocco

By Hussein Rashid

…n among cultures, the sharing of music, the ability for music to suggest a new way of living together, or any other point that gave the festival a deeper sense of purpose would have been appreciated. Otherwise it becomes a type of cultural tourism for visitors where nothing is learned, but that item is checked off a list. For locals who can afford it, it is a “see-and-be-seen” event rather than a celebration of the cosmopolitan nature of Fes. Whil…

Mormonism in 92 languages

By Joanna Brooks

…Lake City will receive hundreds of thousands of visitors this weekend. The new Conference Center, just north of historic Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake, will seat 22,000 conference goers for each of five Conference sessions. And around the world, millions of Mormons will have church on television or internet—watching or listening to the satellite and cable-transmitted voices of Church leaders. During Conference, my thoughts inevitably wande…