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What a Spooky Summer Trend Says About Enchantment in the Late Modern U.S.

By Daniel Wise

…Jason A. Josephson-Storm has argued that disenchantment is a myth and that Western society has never been disenchanted. One of the world’s leading sociologists, Hans Joas, has recently published a book looking for new ways forward now that most scholars can agree the disenchantment narrative is largely wrong. Not that anybody was checking peer-reviewed journals before making summer plans, but now that most scholars recognize that the supernatural…

Ainslie Embree’s Gift to Religious Studies

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…, and member of the US diplomatic service in Delhi. Columbia had created a Western Civilization requirement and Embree, along with the China expert Theodore deBary, were determined to make it a global civilization requirement. Embree created the textbook, Sources of Indian Tradition, that became standard for courses in Hinduism and South Asian Islam. He also helped to establish the South Asian Institute, an early model for the new research field o…

Selective Sympathy and the Mumbai Chabad House

By Naomi Seidman

…ympathies, openly preferring some victims, some stories, over other, less “Western,” ones. Like these organizations, one reason I was drawn to the story of the Chabad House was that it was a Jewish story. More than that, the Chabad Rabbi and his wife—Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg—were Orthodox Jews, people I knew and recognized in a way the newspapers didn’t, even if I had never met them or heard their names before yesterday. “A Jewish center,” the…

After Early Christian Opposition, Iceland Gets First Pagan Temple in Nearly 1000 Years

By Joseph Laycock

…servative Christian response seeking to shore up a definition of religious freedom that excludes these alternatives. In the long run, it seems that our legal understanding of religious pluralism is destined to expand rather than contract. Iceland’s new temple to the Norse gods symbolizes the ability of a Western democracy to host a growing array of religious organizations. Corrections: (*) Link to source material has been added. (**) Quotation mar…

Martin Luther & the Mass Media

By Svend White

…ombard us today in our increasingly polarized times. A recent episode from Western political life was for me especially reminiscent of the uglier side of the debates of Luther’s time. A Swedish newspaper published a political cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad worthy of the vile anti-Semitic tracts that have blighted Christian-Jewish relations for centuries. Not so long ago, Jews were routinely portrayed in popular European culture as bizarre semi-hu…

What Does the ‘Traditional Family’ Have To Do with Pussy Riot?

By Gillian Kane

…y the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council eviscerated Russia’s traditional values resolution. Not only did it not recognize universal traditional rights, it went further “Negative impacts of traditional values arise not only in non-Western countries. The Special Rapporteur on violence against women warned against ‘Orientalising’ cultures and traditions, and noted that traditional and cultural values in Western countries propagate har…

Fox News Controversy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion

By Andrea R. Jain

…s of India as despotic, unscientific, mystical, effeminate, and in need of Western domination, science, reason, and masculinity. Yoga became a means through which Hindu nationalists could display Indian strength and independence in response to these Orientalist representations, which were used to support the colonial project. Nevertheless, the story of yoga’s popularization doesn’t end there. Yoga didn’t become a part of popular culture until the…

Who’s Smearing Obama?

By Svend White

…fer radically from today.” Given the zeal with which many observers demand Western-style reform within Islam, one would expect rejections of the dire predictions of Muslim-Western conflict over Barack Obama’s hybrid identity to be greeted with relief and appreciation. Moreover, given that sheer number of correctives from prominent Muslim leaders and scholars that implicitly endorse reformist stances like the one above, one would expect them to be…

Olympics 2008: Ignoring History

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…as I say, doubled back on themselves to show how very fluent they were in western forms of ritual representation as well. These Opening ceremonies have been clearly invoked many times since — in Barcelona, in Atlanta, and even in Sydney, where gestures to indigenous ritual form took center stage. In Athens, by contrast, something else was staged, a bold celebration of the Greekness of these Olympic Games, and a marvelous historical walking tour t…

Morality is Not Necessarily Good

By Hans-Georg Moeller

…t rigid moral language as it has been created, for instance, by mainstream Western moral philosophy. I think similar deconstructions can be performed in the mass media (late night Shows might help) or perhaps even at the fringes of politics (through ironic speech or ads, etc.). On a very general level, I’d say that Eastern philosophies can demonstrate the contingency of certain foundational notions of Western thought that hardly go questioned. I h…