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The “Religion” Episode: Aziz Ansari and the Cultural Politics of Muslim Self-Representation

By Timothy Gutmann

…has argued that religious transgression occupies an almost sacred place in Western approaches to modern art. Transgression signals human achievement, pleasure, and vulnerability over and against conservative inhibition, inspiring an almost pietistic defense of freedom against the sensibilities of orthodox religion. In Salman Rushdie’s novel The Moor’s Last Sigh, “Step across this line” is a mantra repeated by many of the characters who need to tra…

The Surprisingly Short History of Popular Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain and Michelle Goldberg

…ough a critical period of transition,” she wrote. “Being awakened to a new freedom, they will probably have to suffer even more now than they did a generation ago when they lacked it.” Ultimately, she believed, the growing antagonism between the sexes “will continue until man grants women equality as a human being.” She also urged men to attend to their wives’ sexual pleasure: “an emotionally mature and loving husband is the best person to help hi…

Conservative Christians: Think Twice Before Claiming ‘Islam Is Not a Religion’

By Chad Bauman

…ty and claims like these have been used successfully to restrict religious freedom in India. Since the 1950s, seven Indian states have passed “Freedom of Religion” laws that ban conversion by “force, fraud, and allurement,” and in some cases require that potential converts register with local officials beforehand. While most religious people would agree that conversions by force, fraud, and allurement are undesirable, the impossibility of defining…

80 Million Anglicans Can’t Be Wrong—Or Can They?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Communion—though less and less so in England, the United States, and other Western churches. A Rainbow Emerges from the Cloud of Whiteness In the West, Sentamu’s strident objections to women in the episcopate and LGBT persons pretty much anywhere in the Church as other but piteous sinners would be as profoundly alienating as it might be welcomed by Anglicans in more reliably conservative African, Asian, and Latin American churches. In this light,…

The Religious Right Goes Global with “Demographic Winter”

By Kathryn Joyce

…clear inferno but a quiet and cold blanket of snow in which, they charge, “Western Civilization” is laying itself down to die. How so? Europe is failing to produce enough babies—the right babies—to replace its old and dying. It’s “the baby bust,” “the birth dearth,” “the graying of the continent”: modern euphemisms for old-fashioned race panic as low fertility among white “Western” couples coincides with an increasingly visible immigrant populatio…

Jesus, Muslims, Mormons. And Missouri.

By Haroon Moghul

…o vice-presidential candidate Ryan’s insistence on “those Judeo-Christian, Western-civilization values that made us such a great and exceptional nation in the first place.” I assume by this reference to Judeo-Christian, Ryan is distancing himself, and the “real America” he purports to represent, from the vaguely Muslim, nebulously multicultural, secretly socialist and metaphysically European America Obama represents (see Shalom Goldman’s essay for…

Global LGBT Recap:Culture War Exports, Mob Violence and Kidnapping as Weapon of Homophobia

By Peter Montgomery

…gies Gunda saying that it is “far-fetched to look beyond the activities of Western missionaries” when considering the role of the Bible in Africa. Jennings says missionaries promoted a particular literalist approach to reading the Bible. The situation is not hopeless. Across Christian Africa, tools like contextual Bible study, developed in post-apartheid South Africa, provide new ways to read the Bible and what it has to say about sexuality and ot…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…England were arguably among the most educated people in the history of the western world. Drawn from an upwardly mobile yeoman class, and populated by ministers, scholars, and merchants, they were some of the most unlikely candidates to forge a new civilization in the frontier wilderness. Yet their propensity to interpretive obsession led them to be their own first chroniclers, none more so than Bradford in his Of Plymouth Plantation. Initially th…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e equality campaign launched by NGOs Five NGOs have launched a campaign to promote marriage equality, where same-sex couples have been able to register as partners since 2006. Mexico: Gay soccer team hurt by US visa denials The Set Pieces, a sports site, features the Zorros Club de Futbol, an amateur soccer team from Mexico City whose players are gay; a number of team players have been denied visas to participate in the World Out Games in Miami in…

After Orthodox Priest Suspended for ‘Stop the Steal’ Activity, a Renewed Spotlight on the Orthodox Far-Right

By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

…verts who are fed up with what they see as progressive secularism invading Western Christianity. Certainly, there are more extreme converts than Hodges. Matthew Heimbach, who’s now been excommunicated from the Antiochian Archdiocese, made the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch list for his association with the Traditionalist Youth Network, and has since been involved with the white supremacist and terrorist organization, the Russian Imperial…