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Mormon Group Digging for Scriptural City of Zarahemla in Iowa is a Portrait of Religious Nationalism

By Hanna Seariac

…t of all the illegal immigrants coming from our southern border are mostly Asian and if they were chosen by the Lord to come to America, the Lord would allow them here without a lot of legal hankering.” This position is further exacerbated by the Heartland belief that, not only is the United States of America a chosen land, but that the chosen people came to America from Europe. The language of Anglo-Saxon heritage and bloodlines cements the conne…

The White Nationalist Fantasy of Ancient Christian-Muslim Conflict Would Get an ‘F’ in History Class

By Tony Keddie

…s produced in the early 600s. “Eastern” (or, from a different angle, “West Asian”) Christianity was diverse, and many of its varieties differed in theology from so-called “orthodox” Christianity. At ecumenical Christian councils such as the famous ones at Nicaea (325) and Chalcedon (451), wealthy and powerful male bishops got together to vote on Christ’s divinity. Was he a human who appeared divine or a god who appeared human? Was he both god and…

What Does the Muslim World Really Want?

By Becky Garrison

…ile one can understand these economic constraints, the lack of African and Asian Muslims featured in the film serves as yet another reminder that we still tend to equate Arab with Muslim despite the stats that indicate otherwise. Also, most of the people gathered at this screening seemed to be those already involved in cross cultural exchange work. Time will tell how a film like this that seeks to find common ground will be received in an increasi…

As Transition Looms, Jewish Studies is Mired in Controversy

By Shaul Magid

…concurrent with the establishment of African American Studies, as well as Asian Studies and other fields of Area Studies. In 1966 Arnold Band, then a professor of Hebrew Literature at UCLA, published an essay noting the early proliferation of Jewish Studies positions in American universities even before the establishment of Jewish Studies programs, and called for a symposium to discuss how to respond to this impending need. This symposium took pl…

Debating the “Nones” Part 3

By Katherine Stewart

…hy do I say this? Because the surveys show that the nones vote in decisive numbers for one side. (78 percent of all nones voted for Obama in 2012 according to the Public Religion Research Institute, while Pew had it at 70 percent.) These numbers are comparable to other groups that no one disputes are worthy of political analysis: Latinos and white evangelicals. Drescher asserts that because the nones are defined by their lack of association—they h…

Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in England next week,” according to the Christian Post, “with African and Asian leaders threatening to walk out on Archbishop Justin Welby. Welby has been hoping to preserve the communion in the face of conservative outcry over the backing given same-sex marriage by liberal bishops, including leaders of the American Episcopal Church. The Daily Mail’s Jonathan Petre reports: The row has torn the Church apart for a decade – with conservatives accus…

The Bindi Isn’t Indie

By Yesenia Vargas

…a direct counter to the fact that the bindi tag was dominated by non-South Asians wearing the bindi purely as a fashion statement. The aim was both to educate people on the bindi’s significance and to reassert cultural ownership. Participants can submit selfies or tag their pictures with #reclaimthebindi to take part. Reclaim the Bindi is active on Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, and Twitter, and has recently launched a zine and an online store benef…

Is Tarot Just a Cool Self-Help Deck of Cards?

By Daniel Wise

…pt by Western colonial thinkers (often with cooperation from reform-minded Asian Buddhists) to depict Buddhism as something like an enlightened philosophy rather than a “mere religion.” These Western colonial thinkers created the image of a pure Buddhism that fit the standards of Western Protestant liberal thought, distancing Buddhism from what they perceived as unenlightened elements like appeals to various gods, colorful rituals, and the complex…

New Poll: Millennials Suspicious of Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…er voter cohorts: four in ten millennials are African-American, Latino, or Asian-American. Thanks in part to social media, they also interact with an incredibly diverse range of peers. “They have friends who are immigrants or are from immigrant families. They have friends who are LGBT. This impacts the way they view issues like immigration and LGBT rights,” according to Cox. “They believe that LGBT people are ‘just like me.’” Millenials are also l…

The Qawwali-Gospel, a Cross-Cultural Musical Experiment

By Hussein Rashid

…ntinues to evolve by interacting with new cultures. Bally Sagoo, a British Asian musician, succesfully marries qawwali and hip-hop, as well as qawwali and electronica. The group Fun^Da^Mental, uses qawwali extensively in their music, incorporating a wide variety of music, including gospel, electronica, South African and Tuvan music. The Dub Factory and Gaudi merge qawwali and reggae. In Pakistan, groups like Junoon give qawwali a rock make-over, d…