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Purpose Driven Atheism: Secular Maharishis Seeking True Believers

By Frank Schaeffer

…p religious faith. If that’s all it took, the Soviet Union under Stalin or China under Mao would have been such nice places to live, and our largely secularized Ivy League universities would not be filled with backstabbing intellectuals ready to kill each other (metaphorically speaking) over who gets tenure. The Context of the New Atheist Crusade I suspect that the intensity of the New Atheists’ anti-religion crusade has less to do with religion p…

Is ‘Western Self-Hatred’ the Problem in the Gaza War Protest Movement?

By Shaul Magid

…the early 1960s it was the protest against the French-Algerian War; in late 1960s and early 1970s, Vietnam; in the 1980s, Apartheid; in the 1990s, solidarity with Afghanistan in the Afghan-Soviet war (we all wore Afghani Freedom Fighter hats in grad school); in the 2000s it was massive protests against the invasion of Iraq; economic redistribution after the crash of 2008 and Occupy in 2011; Black Lives Matter in the late twenty teens; and now it’s…

‘It’s Time to Defend our Children Outside of the Womb’: Pray Vote Stand Connects Anti-Abortion and Anti-Trans Messages

By PRA Staff

…which, as Chang confirms, encouraged Russia to invade Ukraine and has made China bolder in its threats to invade Taiwan. Youssef cheers the efforts of missionaries to convert Afghani civilians to Christianity in the two decades since the US invasion of Afghanistan, and argues forcefully for Christian Afghanis to be resettled and “assimilated” in the US—a paradoxical exception to the Right’s increasingly strident anti-immigrant and anti-refugee sta…

Feared Taliban Leader Killed, But Military Strategy is Not the Answer in Afghanistan

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…the following five principles as the bases for formulating a new US policy: 1. Support self-determination. The Obama administration needs to make clear that the people of the region shall decide their own future, and the United States or any outside power can only play a modest role in helping that process. It cannot control it. Many people in the region see the US presence in South Asia as a continuation of British colonial influence. The paralle…

What’s Huntsman’s Game Plan?

By Joanna Brooks

…learned about the two-time Utah governor and Obama-appointed ambassador to China and his approach to the 2012 primaries: 1. He will not allow Utah to define him. His major executive experience is as a popular (and quite moderate) governor of a deeply red state, but Huntsman campaign headquarters will be in Orlando, Florida. 2. Moreover, he will not allow his Mormonism to define him. In his ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos, Hunstman vastly…

RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

By Luke Ssemakula

…evangelicals interpret Paul’s exhortation to submit to authority in Romans 13:1-7 literally, resulting in their submission to political authority as ordained by God. Others are reluctant to participate in the secular democratic process because of their claim that it distracts them from their true pursuit, salvation. The others who lack international connections are reluctant to advocate political reform because they have nowhere to turn for help…

Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

By Joanna Brooks

…n hearing from the press is how Romney relates to women as peers. I was in China when Mitt launched his Senate campaign in 1994. When I arrived home, the tape on my answering machine was full of messages from the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and so forth, all saying, “We know that you’re a Mormon feminist and a political scientist and you’re in his ward. You’ve worked in Massachusetts politics around women’s issues….

The Bible as Security Blanket, Blindfold, or Weapon

By Amy Benson Brown

…r possibility? Ostriker urges us to entertain—and I mean get out your best china and kill the fatted calf—the possibility that experiencing such love is itself participating in union with God. And what, then, would that require of the faithful on an average Friday night across the land? This blending of erotic and divine love may surprise some readers in what is still called the puritanical culture of America. But such possibilities actually rever…

Savoring the Haterade: Why Jews Love Dara Horn’s ‘People Love Dead Jews’

By Shaul Magid

…and created what Gordan calls “Judaism as an American religion.” From about 1945-1960 over 40 such volumes were published not including cover stories in major national magazines. The basic Judaism genre seems today to be replaced with books like Horn’s People Love Dead Jews. Books about antisemitism lurking here, there, and everywhere. Almost every month another title that quickly climbs the charts. Middlebrow books recounting the Greatest Hits of…

Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…(correctly) at the uncertainty consuming me. Similar messages poured in by phone, email and social media throughout the day. It was as if someone in my family had died and people felt compelled to offer me condolences. The reality of living in a country in which the most blatant expressions of Islamophobia and other forms of hate are normalized does worry me. Even as Trump flip-flops on his promise of a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims ente…