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Obama Foes Misrepresent Islam with “Apostate” Tactic

By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im

…State University +Huma Dar PhD Candidate, Department of South & South East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley +William Shepard Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Retired, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand +Harvey Stark, PhD Candidate in Religion, Princeton University +Seval Yildirim Assistant Professor, Director of Center for International and Comparative Law Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA +Linell Cady, co-director of Religio…

Olympics 2008: Ignoring History

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…’d westerners met the traditionally garbed representatives of this storied Asian peninsula. “East meets west”: that was the ritual key in Seoul. The Koreans boldly choreographed any number of events that lent themselves to Orientalizing stereotypes, but then, 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 —…

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

By Murali Balaji

…bid and the general election. Key to his outreach has been the 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 b…

Marriage equality comes to Slovenia, continues to spread in Mexico; Civil Union legislation approved in Sicily, debated in Peru; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that in doing so it breached European law. The British government asked a number of countries and all 50 U.S. states to clarify whether the jurisdictions recognize the marriages of same-sex couples who wed in the United Kingdom. Equalities Minister Jo Swinson told the Guardian, “One of the things we committed to do in the coalition agreement is recognising that for gay people who are in a civil partnership or now have got married, and who are tra…

The Inauguration’s Beautiful Call for Unity Was Undermined by the Invocation of Religion

By Andrew L. Seidel

…e in Vice President Kamala Harris, the first female, first Black and first Asian American to hold such a high office. But religion is divisive and every time the people on that stage turned to the Christian god, or to prayer, or to religion, millions of Americans were left alone, a catch in their throat, a flush in their face, a feeling of exclusion growing with each appeal to the divine. And yes, some of the religious language was intended to be…

Is God Irrelevant?

By Davidson Loehr

…show, and many have quietly moved into a more productive position. Growing numbers of people don’t particularly care whether or not there are gods since, even if there are, they don’t seem able to do anything in our world. If they’re omnipotent, they appear to be indifferent to the small and large-scale wars, tragedies, and slaughters around us. If they’re impotent, who needs them? Even when people are reflexively tempted to thank God for saving t…

Have White Evangelicals Finally Lost Control of the Narrative?

By Chrissy Stroop

…lso scolds Skidmore College religious studies professor Bradley Onishi, an Asian-American ex-evangelical, for describing evangelical teachings about sexuality to New York Times reporter Ruth Graham “in very negative terms as teaching women to hate their bodies as a source of temptation and teaching men to hate their minds, which lead them into lust and morality [sic.].” Onishi also attracted the ire of Jim Daly, the successor of James Dobson as pr…

“Troublemaker” Women Honored, Receive Ivy

By Nadia Berenstein

…a Korean Buddhist mother and American Jewish father, Buchdahl is the first Asian-American woman to be ordained as a rabbi or cantor; she currently serves at Central Synagogue in Manhattan. She spoke movingly of being both an outsider and an insider in the Jewish community and in her hometown of Tacoma, Washington. Using as her text the Book of Ruth, which describes what is believed to be the first conversion to Judaism, she sang a hymn to the appr…

Telling the World a ‘Big Story’: RD in Conversation with Karen Armstrong

By Laurie Patton

…bout the Charter for Compassion has been influenced by your encounter with Asian religions. Would you still call yourself a “freelance monotheist?” Or is “freelance religionist” a better moniker? Yes, I wish I had never made that quip about being a freelance monotheist. I drag it around with me wherever I go. What I meant was that at that time I drew nourishment from all three of the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and that…

Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…cy group Human Rights Campaign . But it would be a notable exception among Asian and Middle Eastern countries, at least 20 of which continue to ban same-sex intercourse. Still, reports AP, “as legalization grows closer, opposition to same-sex marriage is hardening among a small minority of fundamentalist churches and conservative politicians,” including members of the central standing committee of the main opposition Nationalist Party: During thei…