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What’s Wrong With the Virgin Mary Depicted as a Barbie Doll?

By Joseph Laycock

…eligious statues and images—have decried “Barbie: The Plastic Religion,” a new exhibit by Argentinian artists Pool Paolini and Marianela Perelli, featuring 33 Barbie and Ken dolls dressed as saints, prophets, and deities from world religions. The dolls aren’t arranged in blasphemous poses or otherwise used to offend religious sensibilities, so what exactly about the exhibit is upsetting? The answer may be that Barbie is herself profane. An editori…

Dalai Lama’s ‘Suck My Tongue’ Controversy Reveals Centuries-Old Christian Distortion of Tibetan Buddhism

By Geoffrey Goble

…in 1997), punched up into a screenplay by Melissa Mathison. The same year, New York City hosted the second Tibetan Freedom Concert, a benefit to support Tibetan independence spearheaded by Adam Yauch (aka MCA) of the Beastie Boys. The inaugural concert in San Francisco the year before drew 100,000 people and featured some of the biggest names in music at the time: Yauch’s Beastie Boys, Rage Against the Machine, Smashing Pumpkins, A Tribe Called Qu…

Dispatches from the Election: Around the Moon, Safely

By Glenn W. Smith

…hopes that seemed under constant assault. Suspended, however briefly, was news of assassination and riot, of the gruesome spectacle of wars, hot and cold. But we also knew that during that silence the fate of astronauts James Lovell Jr., William Anders and Frank Borman would be decided. Hidden from us by the Moon, the astronauts would undertake the maneuver that placed them in lunar orbit. If something went wrong precisely at the time we couldn’t…

Pat Boone Croons Tune of Hate

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…eartless terrorists who gunned down hundreds of innocent people in Mumbai, India. Have you not seen the awful similarity between what happened in Mumbai and what’s happening right now in our cities? Oh, I know the homosexual “rights” demonstrations haven’t reached the same level of violence, but I’m referring to the anger, the vehemence, the total disregard for law and order and the supposed rights of their fellow citizens. I’m referring to the in…

Election Update: Oklahoma Bans Shari’ah Law

By Haroon Moghul

…d, winning nearly 70% of the vote. As an American Muslim, and a citizen of New York, I am amused, concerned, fascinated and, oddly, given hope. Let me go in that order. Shari’ah is, for Muslims, the “path to the water”; the texts that normatively define a moral life and the means to God and heaven in the life to come. But Shari’ah is an ideal. Muslims, across countries and centuries, have only ever been able to interpret revelation, producing read…

CERN: Where Particle Physics Collides with Human Sacrifice (Apparently)

By Joseph Laycock

…g around a statue of Shiva (a gift from the Department of Atomic Energy of India). A woman in white is brought forward and stabbed, prompting the anonymous cameraman to flee in terror. The Telegraph noted the cameraman’s reflection in the office window suggests that he is also wearing a ritual cloak and likely a co-conspirator. CERN administrators have dismissed the footage as a hoax and opened an internal investigation. But many remain puzzled as…

Hopping on the Meditation Brandwagon: “Heartfulness” Makes Landfall in Los Angeles

By Anita Little

…ents.” Recent USC graduate Ade Mos already meditates but was looking for a new practice. “It really did stir up a lot of new perspectives on the art of living. I was searching for insights that were profound and novel.” As anyone who’s spent considerable time in Los Angeles could attest to, there’s a palpable sense of “searching” here. The young and the unaffiliated—transplants and natives alike—are unmoored and perpetually sniffing out the next b…

Forced Cremation of Covid Dead in Sri Lanka Further Marginalizes Muslim Community

By Andrea Malji and Amarnath Amarasingam

…vendors. There’s been similar anti-Muslim sentiment and disinformation in India as well. In previous pandemics, particularly Ebola, preparations of the dead were seen as a leading cause of viral spread. While care should certainly be taken with the handling of bodies that have passed from Covid, the risk of viral spread is limited, and cremation is not necessary. The continued practice of forced cremation represents a violation of human rights an…

Mormonism in 92 languages

By Joanna Brooks

…Lake City will receive hundreds of thousands of visitors this weekend. The new Conference Center, just north of historic Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake, will seat 22,000 conference goers for each of five Conference sessions. And around the world, millions of Mormons will have church on television or internet—watching or listening to the satellite and cable-transmitted voices of Church leaders. During Conference, my thoughts inevitably wande…

Religion in Real Time on CNN’s “Believer”: A Conversation with Reza Aslan

By Kaya Oakes

…e two significant ones here just in Los Angeles. There’s a very big one in New York, and there are lots of them throughout Arizona and Nevada and Texas. So for those people out there who want to write a PhD in religion, pick this one: you’re watching in real time the creation and spread of a new global religion primarily due to shifting migration patterns. That’s how Christianity became a global religion: people left the confines of the Roman Empi…