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Biggest, Best & Worst LGBT Religion Stories of 2016 and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s indeed leads to serious consideration for the legitimization of parties that promote the propaganda of paedophilia. Putin also send US President-elect Donald Trump a “very nice” Christmas letter. Taiwan: Marriage equality moves forward in parliament The day after Christmas, amid raucous protests, a parliamentary committee passed the first draft of a marriage equality bill, which is supported by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party and Preside…

Why Belief in the Primacy of Language Leads to a Misunderstanding of Richard Dawkins, Islamophobia, and Politics

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…these different extremist groups. Reading your book, though, it struck me that that graph—as attractive as it is to me—probably wouldn’t change a lot of people’s minds if they’re Islamophobic. I don’t want to say that the hierarchy of information and affect is so intractable that new information, new ideas, new encounters can’t reshape your affects. And in a lot of ways, I think what we’re seeing right now is a sort of a struggle going on between…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…ogically fundamentalist Christians have for years explained to themselves that what seems to be worldly wisdom and conclusions are really the results of conspiracies, biases, and misplaced human pride in academic, scientific, and journalist communities. This cognitive training to reject expert knowledge and to seek alternative, more amenable explanations has helped disarm the capacity for critical thinking and analysis. In the following years, the…

Mississippi’s Personhood Bill Makes God Look Bad

By Daniel C. Maguire

…etus and there is broad agreement on what is called “delayed ensoulment.” That was code for saying that the fetus does not attain to personal status until it is well formed. Early miscarriages could not be named or given religious funerals. Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas held that the early fetus had the moral status of a plant, and that not even God could infuse a spiritual, person-making soul until the fetus was developed; some put this tod…

Listening and Supporting: The Spirituality of Nurses

By Wendy Cadge

…there is something religious about the care they provide). Only 4% think that promoting spirituality is at odds with the real purpose of medicine. Issues related to spirituality have long been a part of nursing curricula, with introductory textbooks often devoting a chapter to spirituality, and related topics being covered in chapters about caring, cultural diversity, grief, health promotion, and other topics. Upper-level courses also take up the…

The End of Michele Bachmann?

By Sarah Posner

…the Holy Land Foundation terror financing case. Here’s what I wrote about that exhibit, and that case, over a year ago: This claim that the Muslim Brotherhood’s aim is a worldwide theocracy, and that all American Muslim organizations fall into lock-step with it, stems solely from a single 20-year-old document written by a single Brotherhood member in 1991. In the controversial terrorism financing trial of the Holy Land Foundation, which first resu…

Thoughts from the “Bad Hombre” Debate

By Candace E. West

…e time comes, whether or not he’ll honor the results of the election. Let that sink in. Now remember that it’s not just Trump. The Associated Press report from the debate notes that: Trump’s assertions raise the prospect that millions of his supporters may not accept the results on Nov. 8 if he loses, thrusting the nation into uncharted territory. Free and fair elections, with the vanquished peacefully stepping aside for the victor, have been the…

An Open Letter to Western Feminists

By Shabana Mir

…d are experiencing a rise in religious extremism and restrictions on their freedom that were unheard of before the U.S. invasion, “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” in 2003. At this moment in Afghanistan, women are living with the return of the Taliban and other misogynistic groups such as the Northern Alliance, a U.S. ally, and with the violence of continuing U.S. and NATO attacks on civilians, despite the U.S. war to “liberate” Afghan women in 2001. As…

The Gray Lady’s Regard: Ritual and the Wedding Pages

By Kathryn Lofton

…nce, is yours for the having. Then you read more closely, and you realize that whatever career fair these folks attended had seriously curtailed options. Words like “associate” and “analyst” and “manager” abound, whereas words like “union” and “paramedic” and “zookeeper” are nowhere to be found. Everyone seems to be a lawyer or a professor emeritus. Father is often an investment manager. Or a managing director. Even if many of the New Brides occup…

The Hypocrisy in Protests against Ultra-Orthodox in Israel

By Shaul Magid

…n the army. The Modern Orthodox protesters’ lack of attention to the fact that these haredim read the very same texts is somewhat hypocritical. They read the same Torah and commentaries, study the same Talmud, live by the same legal codes, and adhere to the same basic belief system. Yes, the haredim have a very narrow reading of these sources but it’s a safe bet that they can cite chapter and verse to support their views—often more adroitly than t…