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Why Moscow Wants to Crack Down on Foreign Funding for Minority Religious Orgs

By Diana Dukhanova

…he Vatican in Russia and the Vice Chairman of the Muslim Board of Russia’s European Part have released statements affirming their respective communities’ intentions to abide by the new regulations. Meanwhile, a senior Chabad Rabbi from Moscow, Boruch Gorin, expressed serious concern about the possible ramifications of the bill for for Jewish communities and organizations—most of which receive some sort of funding from Jewish groups outside of Russ…

Rick Santorum’s Crusade To Save “Christendom”

By Sarah Posner

…tes are. This is in many respects a dying continent from the standpoint of European-Europeans. And if we lose faith, and we lose the culture war and become a completely secular, materialistic society, then we will go the way of the Europeans and we will have no heart to face these people. The problem with the Europeans is that they are completely secular folks, by and large, who see the world through the eyes of reason. Well, these people don’t –…

‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…“is fully inclusive and protects everyone.” Also this week, The Network of European LGBT Families Associations celebrated International Family Equality Day at the European Parliament in Brussels. BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder reports that while more than 1.5 billion people “now live in countries that allow people to identify as neither male nor female on passports,” the U.S. immigration system has no way to process those passports. Lila Shapiro writes i…

The New Church: Sexual and Ethnic Diversity… and Drums!

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…at hasn’t used drums, which leads us label them as “informal.” I discuss a number of the reasons for that in my recent book A History of Religion in 5 ½ Objects (see excerpt here), one of which is that as European Christians colonized much of the world they found people playing drums. Since these “other” communities could not possibly have true religion, drums must be associated with false or heathen religions. A history of Christian colonization…

Predicting the Future of Religion: A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…es be replaced with that of the twenty-first century Black Forest? Or will Europeans embrace that really old time religion of paganism, trading in Christ for Thor? Perhaps our future historian will write her dissertation on how the twenty-first century saw mass revivals of the worship of Apollo in Greece, Diana in Italy, and Odin in Scandinavia? And what portents may neo-Paganism herald, what rough beast slouches toward London, Paris, and Rome to…

The Politics of Anti-Gay Persecution: Gambia, Egypt, Jamaica, Russia, with a Helping Hand from US Religious Conservatives; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d 50 countries. These include France’s Aymeric Chauprade — a member of the European Parliament from the far-right Front National party — the Hungarian Minister of State for Family Affairs Katalin Veresné Novák, and Kyrgyzstan’s First Lady, Raisa Atambaeva. The guest list notes that several members of parliament from European countries had been “recommended” for the event by Russian MP Yelena Mizulina, author of the so-called “gay propaganda” law….

The Shared Assumption Behind Creationism and Anti-GMO in Europe

By Michael Schulson

…fer the existence of God from [these] works. Are there certain segments of European society where creationist ideals tend to take root? They usually pop up within very conservative religious circles, of course. But there is no real distinction whether these conservatives are Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox. Where creationism is most popular and most influential is more in Eastern Europe. I wouldn’t say that [creationism] is dramatic in Europe, o…

A One-State Solution for Israel and Why It Will Work

By Haroon Moghul

…reserve an expansionist project. But that is not going to happen. A recent European Union report states that tensions in Jerusalem are at their highest in years. It’s about time the United States joins the international community in expressing real, and consequential, disapproval of this state of affairs. The relationship between America and Israel isn’t one of alliance so much as one of patron and client. When we, as Americans, could be devoting…

3 Takeaways from #Easter2015

By Michael Schulson

…hat people tend to tweet after church, the one tag that also works in many European languages—#jesus—shows a double peak, first around 7:00am CT (which is to say, midday in Europe), and then again around 1:00pm CT. Accordingly, #Ostern (German) and #Pâques (French) both peaked around the European noon. (The data for #Pascua is more messily distributed, seemingly a weird postmodern artifact of Spain’s distinctive colonial reach). 2) “Like invitatio…

The Trouble With Harry (Potter): Religious Conservatives Do Have Something to Fear

By Jay Michaelson

…ean here the unreconstructed monotheistic God) has no role whatsoever. The best man wins the duel—or rather, the man with the best wand. Now, one could, of course, make the same claims about comic-book sagas like Superman or Batman. Why should Harry Potter have to take any more refuge in the numinous than Kal-El or Bruce Wayne? Well, because there is something intrinsically religious about the Potter series; and I don’t just mean the rab…