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How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Permanently Change Our ‘Good Death’ Narrative

By Cody J. Sanders

…a dramatic fashion. Over 600,000 people died in battle. In Gettysburg alone, 7,000 corpses were strewn on the battlefield. After many battles, there were too many dead bodies for the military or nearby townspeople to adequately care for. Most died with no one to hear their last words or assess their spiritual state, and no one to lovingly care for their remains. Embalming emerged as a practice of corpse preservation that served a very practical ne…

Who Bombed the Boston Marathon?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ng to a report issued by the reliable Southern Poverty Law Center last year, the number of extremist Patriot groups has skyrocketed. Only 149 groups existed before Obama was elected in 2008. In 2012 the number had expanded to 1,360. Not all are plotting terrorist attacks, of course. But some are. In September 2012, Daryl Johnson, a terrorist analyst for the US Department of Homeland Security testified before a Senate committee that there was an “u…

Breivik’s Religious Pluralist Vision: A COEXIST Bumper Sticker Without the Crescent

By Michael J. Altman

…’s true that he borrows a lot of imagery and language from the Christian crusades, such a list of world religions indicates that Breivik also thought in terms of modern religious diversity. It wasn’t merely Christendom versus Islam, it was a world of peaceful religions defending themselves against violent Muslims. Combining the clash of civilizations thesis with historical narratives of Islam’s violence against the world’s religions, Breivik saw t…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…religion in the world that kills you when you disagree with them. They say, ‘Look, we’re a religion of peace and if you disagree we’ll cut your fucking head off.” In December of last year, the president of American Atheists posted a status update to his public Facebook profile that read: “Never give up a right without a fight. I will defame Islam if I want to. It doesn’t mean I hate Muslims. It means Islam is a shitty religion that worships a ped…

Park51 and the Ground Liberals Are Forced to
Fight On

By Sarah Posner

…from which he depressingly sees no foreseeable escape. Given how ham-handed, false, and mean-spirited the conservative campaign has been, it pains me to say how the right has played this to its advantage. As I wrote yesterday, the shadowy suggestions of Obama — dating back, of course, to the 2008 presidential campaign — with being a Muslim, and therefore being a terrorist, and this therefore being the “Obamosque” representing a fifth column of sha…

Speaking for Hinduism in the Absence of a Conversation

By Murali Balaji

…rom the study of other faiths. The religious study of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and more recently, Buddhism, in the academy has been buttressed by strong theological perspectives. Hinduism, at least in the West, still lacks that presence, and until it does, there will always be questions of how the narrative is framed. Additionally, the academic study of Hinduism in India was (and still is) dominated for years by Marxist scholars, who based th…

Satanic or Silly: Does Yale Press Censorship of Cartoons Insult Muslims?

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…tests that led to a boycott of Danish products, attacks on Danish embassies, and a number of deaths. Last month in the New York Times, however, Reza Aslan countered that the controversy over the cartoons has died out and that in any case, there never was any violence over them in the United States. I agree with Aslan that the novelty of the cartoon depictions, which were intended to irritate Muslims, has worn thin by now—the Saudis, to take just o…

Forget Right or Wrong

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ife and those whom I have never met in person, as well as the various posts, tweets, discussions, resource sharing, and other interactions are as much a part of “who I am” as any other elements of my identity. We need not assume that the practices that emerge from digitally-integrated contemporary culture are merely automated versions of traditional religious practices. When I post a note on the online Wailing Wall site, am I praying? Is the pract…

What’s in a Name? Religious Nones and the American Religious Landscape

By Richard Flory

…,” but who do religious/spiritual things. They occasionally attend services, pray, believe in Karma and meditate. But they don’t tend to think of these things as having any particular religious or spiritual content. Focusing on Nones also misses those who are marginally interested in religion, rarely if ever attend services, yet claim that it has some relevance in their lives. Some Nones attend religious services on occasion, are generally open to…

Wesolowski Sexual Abuse Case a New Approach or Same Old Same Old?

By Mary E. Hunt

…untry, though he had the same job in Bolivia before repairing to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and environs for another posting. All this leads me to wonder what could be done so readily in such disparate places. Conclusion: probably not much, and/or maybe more of the same. But let’s not go there. It’s reported that in Santo Domingo Wesolowski was “a ceremonial dean of the international diplomatic corps here, convening an annual party in honor of the co…