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What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’?

By Shalom Goldman

…ecently: “the insidious thing about words is that the act of decrying them promotes their usage.” Being that the term is now ubiquitous, perhaps a look back at the history of “Judeo-Christian” is in order. Popularized by Liberals The first recorded uses of the term “Judeo-Christian” were in England in the 1820s, though it was used quite differently than it is in today’s political rhetoric. The term was first coined by protestant missionaries who u…

How to Meet Muslims: A (Cinematic) Primer

By Haroon Moghul

…representing the eastern half of the country clearly won, but the dominant western elite refused to accept a result that would find them subordinated. Much of this refusal was rooted in ethnic supremacism and religious chauvinism (Many of West Pakistan’s elites often saw Bengali-speaking East Pakistanis as culturally inferior and Islamically compromised.) Hundreds of thousands of innocents were slaughtered in this war, as the ostensibly secular P…

Palin Cries ‘Blood Libel’: Can Words Harm Us?

By Susannah Heschel

…he famous so-called Damascus Affair of 1840, which saw Jewish leaders from Western Europe defend Syrian Jews from the blood libel, stimulated treatises by anti-Semitic agitators, along with scholars who defended Jews and pseudo-scholars who falsely claimed that Jewish texts support ritual murder. The blood libel was even transformed into the Dracula figure, a “blood sucker” who isn’t explicitly identified as a Jew in Bram Stoker’s novel, but who w…

Zeitgeist A Blend Of Skepticism, Metaphysical Spirituality, and Conspiracy

By Michael J. Altman

…y for political reasons, and then that the empire instituted the church in Western culture as means of social control. Jesus never existed, according to this theory, and his religion is a myth that functions to empower elites and control the masses. Zeitgeist is not new in its arguments about Christianity. While various apologists have sought to counter the arguments, I am more interested in locating them. Zeitgeist’s theory that religion originat…

How the Conspiratorial American Right is Spinning the Egypt Protests

By Sarah Posner

…is behind the protests, and that Obama is somehow linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, and an evil plot to subvert “Judeo-Christian” values, America, and Western civilization — swirling around conservative media in the coming days….

The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

By Sarah Posner

…echoed by Rush Limbaugh, now promises, “Islamists, in particular the anti-Western Muslim Brotherhood, seem poised to take power throughout the Middle East as a result of riots that have already toppled one Arab regime and are threatening others, in what some are calling only the latest wave of an Islamic ‘tsunami’ sweeping the globe.” Oh, and look! The Brotherhood has learned its tactics from Bill Ayers and Code Pink. Don’t you love living in a f…

Does American Zen Need Reform?

By Lisa Webster

…ng story.” In forty-six years of Zen practice I’ve observed Asian (and now Western) swamis, tulkus, roshis, rishis, dharma heirs, lineage holders, and masters of various stripes, as well as their disciples, explain that the master’s fiscal extravagance, alcoholism, cruelty, sex addiction, violence, and even rape is – of all things – “a teaching!” […] This is a Mad Hatter’s tea party, where hierarchical robes and titles, sadomasochistic austerities…

Gospel and Soul Lose a King and Queen

By Anthea Butler

…e her an exceptional woman and gospel singer. Burke’s influence on country western music, as well as the Rolling Stones, Al Green and others, was a seamless marriage of the sacred and secular. Burke, ordained at the age of 7, also was a licensed mortician, coupling two of the historic occupations for African American men in the early portion of the 20th century. Born into a family of female preachers, Burke’s grandmother started a church in West P…

Does the Historical Jesus Matter?

By Peter Laarman

…r for Empire to feel secure. Crossan had people chuckling over images from Western art (Titian, especially) showing Jesus bounding out of the tomb with a buff West Hollywood gym body. Crossan maintains that a heroic solo victory over death and defeat is not what Jesus achieves at the end—and is certainly not how he would want to be remembered. The earliest images of anastasis (resurrection) preserved in Eastern Church shrines show Jesus taking Ada…

Kung Fu Nuns, The Beatles, & Amish Healthcare: The Week In Religion… Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…ce Lee. Muslims across Europe are balancing their faith with the values of Western society by adopting new practices: men and women praying together, young people meeting in casual settings for prayer groups, and mosque doors opening to non-Muslims. Meanwhile, in an attempt to curb religious extremism, the Islamic Preaching Bill in Nigeria would criminalize “insulting or inciting contempt of any religious belief which causes a breach of the peace….