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Trump May Be “a Big Fan of Hindu,” But Hindus Are Running—and Winning—as Democrats

By Murali Balaji

…e large South Asian population in the district, which includes Hindus from India and the West Indies, Sikhs, and Muslims. Jois believes Democrats are ignoring Hindus and other religious minority groups at their own peril. “We all understand that politics works best when everyone’s voice is heard in the process. Yet for far too long, some of the largest-growing groups in New Jersey have been on the sidelines in politics,” he said. “That’s why our c…

The War On Terror Is Over

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ough these troops were re-deployed to Baghdad—where they joined a surge of new American forces dispatched to patrol neighborhoods and make them more secure—they were not replaced in the al Anbar countryside. With no US military around to hate—and with American financial support for their new security operations—local militias turned their attention away from America and toward another enemy, the al Qaeda forces that had infiltrated the resistance…

Beautiful Dreamers: A Documentary Asks “What is God”?

By Nathan Schneider

…man in a white sari oversees the care of mangled patients at a hospital in India. Maasai tribesman in Kenya sacrifice a goat to God for rain, to the disapproval of a collared Christian priest. There’s a healthy helping of English atheists, each with particular and charming ways of scoffing off the notion entirely. “God is a word,” one of them explains. And then the silence of all eternity passes through snowy Himalayan vistas. It is true. God is a…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…a Muslim people who resemble puddles left by a receded tide, stranded in a new Europe that has little room in its imagination for them. My journey is deeply personal, and urgently universal. The 1990s war over Bosnia had global effects: it gave ammunition to radicals and it challenged the project of European unity; but it also hit very close to home, forcing Muslims like myself (I was twelve when the war started) to confront an assumed compatibili…

Is Religion Wrecking Our Air?

By Jay Wexler

…elderly people and children with heart and respiratory ailments.” Another Indian expert similarly concluded, “Gaseous air pollutants along with other toxic gases emitted due to burning of firecrackers aggravates the chance of attack among asthma patients. The patients with heart disease, chronic bronchitis and low immune system are also at high risk.” The realization that fireworks significantly raise air pollution levels has led officials in Bei…

Greatest Hits of 2015: Religion Stories Our Readers Couldn’t Resist

By Ellie Faustino

…him of being paid by Monsanto, the third most hated company in America: I knew Monsanto sues farmers into oblivion, caused a rash of suicides in India, suppresses negative media coverage, and pays politicians, and scientists to lie on its behalf. But there was one story I didn’t believe, because I knew it wasn’t true: Monsanto hadn’t paid me. So I did what any academic or journalist would do, and started learning more about the company that suppos…

What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?

By Bill Berkowitz

…Layton in Kurdistan, northern Iraq, who is rebuilding a Christian culture: new Christian schools, new Christian businesses, and more. He is not content to build churches; he wants an entire Christian culture.” Up until this year Layton served as the Erbil director of the Kurdistan Development Corporation, a KRG sponsored venture launched in 2004 to promote, facilitate and establish business and investment opportunities in the Kurdistan Region in I…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…coverage in the mainstream media, it was covered by Christian conservative news outlets, where Colson is a revered figure. In response to news of the award ceremony, I wrote a piece for Buzzflash entitled “The Fallen Have Risen: Charles Colson honored by White House,” and subtitled “In his final days in office, President Bush is pallin’ around with a former felon and bomb plotter.” Despite the snarky subtitle’s intentional dig at Bush, the article…

A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…it her analysis of the global implications of the gang rape and murder of Indian medical student Jyoti Singh Pandey, purity culture, whether in India or America, casts “women’s bodies [as]…primarily for procreation or male pleasure… a culture in which women must cover up or be threatened is a rape culture.” [Emphasis mine] If, as Graff writes, purity culture is rape culture, then the submission culture that exists in many conservative evangelical…

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…