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A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ir multi-national, multi-racial and multi-ethnic character. That said, the numbers of nations and people that we mention are sourced solely on the claims of the groups themselves. We have no way to independently verify these numbers, so they should be used advisedly. Simply put, the global vision of the NAR is based on their understanding of the Great Commission text of Matthew 28:18-20, with an emphasis on “discipling nations” (28:19). Internatio…

Austrian Court Okays Head-Colander in Driver’s License: Is Pastafarianism Becoming a Religion?

By Joseph Laycock

…roaches to human origins where Genesis was read alongside other Abrahamic, Asian, and indigenous narratives. FSM became an internet sensation, drawing support primarily from atheists and college students. In online forums, the doctrines and mythology of FSM were expanded and in 2006 Henderson published The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Pirates somehow found their way into this mythology, becoming an important symbol of the movement. In a…

A New Book By Esteemed Sociologist Robert Wuthnow Struggles to Show ‘Why Religion is Good for American Democracy’

By Peter Laarman

…here were some expressions of solidarity with the Middle Eastern and South Asian people, many of them citizens, being swept up and thrown into federal detention centers. Overwhelmingly, however, American faith leadership held its tongue rather than risk running afoul of the national thirst for revenge. Some of us thought back then that democracy was entering its darkest hour and that religion was failing or had failed its acid test. And this was t…

The Bleeding Heart of Muslim Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…revealed in telling details. Take Ataturk, father of an ostensibly Central Asian nation; he was born in today’s Macedonia, his features strikingly and suspiciously Slavic—blond hair and blue eyes. The 1990s war awakened many of these connections, and as Turkey in many respects challenges Ataturk’s legacy (especially his late 19th-century romantic European nationalism), the older truths of Turkey’s Ottoman heritage gain visibility. Not to resurrect…

Cloud Atlas: This is Some Mystical S*%t

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…re already mashups, Cloud Atlas rewrites the mythologies large, from South Asian religious mythical traditions of samsara (the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth) and moksha (liberation from the cycle) to contemporary popular cultural products, borrowing and rephrasing from a repertoire of cultural symbols. The Trans-Mediation of Souls Perhaps the most fascinating mythical mashup is the so-called metempsychosis, the transmigration of characters’ s…

To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…white Americans practicing yoga should critically reflect on yoga’s South Asian roots, the history of colonialism, and the desire and power to appropriate from historically oppressed communities of color. I also raised some basic questions: could the most dreadful of corporate media and right-wing spin machines’ representations of public intellectuals teach us anything about ourselves and how we offer our scholarship for public consumption? Could…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nment would investigate reports of a Canadian underground railroad. India: Asian feminists denounce murder of journalist Feminists who gathered in Thailand last week for the Asia Pacific Feminist Forum denounced the murder of Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh as “an emblematic example of the attacks our governments have enabled through their support to right wing vigilante groups and their own attacks on civil society feminism and human rights”: A f…

Will Istanbul Ever Be a Part of the European Union?

By Haroon Moghul

…ere, you can go all the way to London. There’s another rail station on the Asian side of Istanbul, and a long-running project aims to connect the two with a multi-billion-dollar underwater tunnel system. Everywhere we go things are under construction. The city is unbelievably old, assured of its place in history, but newly unpolished and young, bursting with energy, and still trying to figure itself out. You could see why a world conqueror would m…

By His Wounds We Have Already Been Entertained: Tiger Woods, The Masters, and the Ritual of Celebrity Disgrace

By Dan Mathewson and Trina Jones

…swered the race question at one point by calling himself “Cablinasian”—Caucasian-black-Indian-Asian—thereby affirming his ambiguity.) So, not only did Tiger dare to approach a clearly delineated group and threaten to redefine the parameters of its membership by virtue of his confusing non-whiteness, he had the audacity to come in and be better than anybody else. Because of his obvious skill, then, Augusta National had to let him in (thereby blurri…

It’s the Catholic Bishops, Not Those Who Toppled Junipero Serra Statues, Who Have Failed the Test of History

By Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

…ed Latino/a/x histories where European voices are elevated, while African, Asian, and Native voices are erased. In the case of California that means canonizing Serra but forgetting Native Christians such as Regina Josepha/Toypurina or Pablo Tac. Serra’s statues are a reminder of whose culture is supposed to remain dominant, regardless of the human lives lost to that domination. In this moment, it’s not enough to de-romanticize Serra. Remembering c…