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Heroes: Sex and the Single Superhero

By Nick Street

…ds himself in a remote sub-Saharan locale, where he seeks the advice of an African shaman endowed with precognitive abilities. “You must find your totem,” Matt’s host tells him as they stand in the boulder-strewn desert gallery where the shaman paints his visions of the future. “A spirit guide that attaches to your subconscious. It will lead you on your journey.” “What is that,” asks the jaded telepathic cop. “Some African mystical mojo thing?” Af…

Why David Sometimes Wins: What We Must Learn From Cesar Chavez

By Frederick Clarkson

…struggle as it did a labor struggle. They learned from the example of the African American civil rights struggle, and drew on the reinvigoration of the Catholic social justice tradition stemming from Vatican II, as well as an interfaith cast of religious leaders and institutions across the country (notably, the National Council of Churches and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops). Competing union organizers sneered at this. One declared, charac…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…tern, politically active, and socially dynamic. Two of our Congressmen are African-American Muslims—are they opposed to the West? I have met numerous European Muslims committed to their countries of residence and deeply shaped by those cultures. (One such acquaintance, a candidate for British Parliament from Glasgow, represents the Scottish National Party.) That Muslims are incapable of change is similarly inaccurate. I will let Caldwell disprove…

No One Can Tell I’m a Muslim: All-American Muslim Debuts

By Su?ad Abdul Khabeer

…a sort of “we eat apple pie, too” claim to American kinship. Profiling an African-American Muslim family would have opened up the possibility of educating viewers about enslaved African Muslims to really give serious context about how American Islam is. Likewise, the possibility of learning about more recent movements like the Nation of Islam whose origins go back to the 1930s or the Dar ul-Islam movement in the 1960s, would further remind people…

Why Do Southerners Call Mormonism a Cult?

By Joanna Brooks

…manhood. This rationale helped whites in the South justify the lynching of African-Americans. It drove anti-Mormonism as well: not just theological difference, but the fear that they’re coming for our women. That helps me understand the edge I hear in the contemporary caricaturing of Mormonism as a “cult.” It’s not just theological differentiation. There’s an edge to the accusation. It’s a residue of the anti-Mormon violence of the nineteenth cent…

Romney Faces Sticky Questions about LDS “Doctrines” on Race

By Joanna Brooks

…a in the 1970s and 1980s hearing that Cain and Ham were the progenitors of African and African-descended peoples. I also heard plenty of nuclear-tinged talk about the last days and the incipient millennium. It was, after all, the Cold War. But times have changed, that kind of talk isn’t really practical anymore. That’s the very distinction Mitt Romney—in refusing to talk about religious “doctrines” but agreeing to talk about faith “practices”—will…

Pentecostal With History of Hate Speech Selected as President of Brazil’s Human Rights Body

By Jandira Queiroz

…they’ve begun to challenge the longstanding dominance of Catholics in the central government. Pentecostal churches have taken root across the country, especially in poorer areas, preaching a version of prosperity gospel and building their empire on the tithes of families benefiting from anti-poverty programs. The result has been a massive 61% spike in Brazil’s evangelical population from 2000 to 2010—a number now amounting to more than 43 million…

The Rise and Fall of an American Gang: Religion as Camouflage?

By Spencer Dew

…th American citizenship—as having the “primary objective” of “connect[ing] African Americans with a proud heritage, thereby circumventing the stereotypical picture of Africa, its inhabitants, and their black American descendants as savage and uncivilized.” This makes the religion, with its embrace of Orientalist imagery and esoteric texts, sound more like the African-centered outreach program for school children author Lance Williams founded, and…

Ahmadi Muslim Community Doesn’t Speak For All Muslims

By Hussein Rashid

…, the Ahmadi community now seems to be making a serious push to become the central voice that represents Muslim-Americans. The Ahmadis are a movement that originated in the 19th century in South Asia. They are generally considered to be the first group to come to the United States in an organized way and were heavily involved in converting African-Americans to Islam in the early part of the 20th century. In Pakistan, they are targeted by certain s…

Newt Gingrich’s Hero, a Religion-Crushing Dictator

By Haroon Moghul

…idents out of a diverse, multilayered history and into a carefully crafted Central Asian nationalism whose stated goal was, oddly enough, to get Turkey accepted into the same Europe Gingrich so frequently derides. Today, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party represents the return of religious Turks to the country’s power structures; recently, Governor Perry, who called Turkey’s elected leaders — our NATO allies — “Islamic terrorists,” suggesting…