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World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n review the status of LGBT people in Cambodia, which “has seen increasing numbers of gays emerging into public life as the country continues to rapidly normalize after three decades of war.” Cambodians have traditionally shunned the gay community, and LGBT practices are often viewed as being against nature and a threat to rebuilding the social order in the aftermath of three decades of war, which obliterated the country’s social fabric. Overcomin…

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…good move. When I got to the lobby another something told me to dig out my phone and check it for messages. Sure enough, I had one from an unfamiliar number. A woman’s voice said Bedi was still sleeping, exhausted from the previous day’s overseas flight, and needed to reschedule our interview for that afternoon. I called the number back, convinced the opportunity was lost. “I’m here at the hotel now, but I’m booked solid this afternoon—” “Hold on,…

‘Don’t Call Me Black No More, I’m an Israelite’: Kendrick Lamar, Black Hebrew Religion, and Black Suffering

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…r of ethno-religious identities such as “Moor,” “Muslim,” “Israelite,” or “Ethiopian Hebrew.” What explains the 21st century embrace of Hebrew Israelite beliefs by artists like Kendrick Lamar? According to prominent Chicago anti-violence activist Tamar Manasseh—whose own Black Jewish background has served as a source for anti-violence strategies—Israelite beliefs and practices have become more attractive to younger unaffiliated African Americans w…

Trickle-Down Metaphysics and the Dawn of a Trumpian New Age

By Michael Schulson

…City, where he said that he received mystical teachings from a mysterious Ethiopian Jew named Abdullah. His theology is complicated, and I won’t try to do it justice here. But some of his key conclusions about the relationship between the mind and the world crop up again in again in American thought. It’s not just The Secret. The basic idea here—that positive thinking can shape reality—infuses everything from Oprah episodes to TED talks to the pr…

Resurrecting Marley at 70: Rastafari History in 5 Songs

By Darren J. N. Middleton

…reggae pulse, and it chronicles Haile Selassie’s role in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936). Significantly, the song alludes to the Emperor’s stirring speech before the League of Nations on June 30, 1936. Ancient King shadows Bob Marley in this regard since Marley took Selassie’s remarks to the United Nations on October 4, 1963, and created “War,” which he released on 1976’s Rastaman Vibration album. 2. Everton Blender, “Leonard Howell” L…

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

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…gatherings. Perhaps none are as engaging as what is seen and heard in the Ethiopian Orthodox church’s use of the kabaro. Here the drums are one of the most sacred dimensions for Christians and present in all major worship services. In reality it’s the Christian European tradition, and much of Judaism, that 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…

Trans Protections in India and Malta; Death-by-Stoning Law in Brunei; Church-State Divides on Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…tes rally organizer Dereje Negash, chairman of a group affiliated with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, saying he will continue his struggle against the gay community in spite of threats he says he has received. “I believe I have been given a task by God to do this. I will do this even if it means life or death.” Homosexual activity is already punishable by up to 15 years in Ethiopia; Dereje wants to make punishments for gay sex more severe. Jamai…

Why Did a Muslim Civil Rights Group Oppose Democrats’ Plans to Confront White Nationalism?

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Brannon Ingram

…the Islamic Courts Union in Mogadishu prompted the invasion of Somalia by Ethiopian fighters, with the backing of the US, and the Somali community in Minnesota was subsequently targeted both as a potential security threat and a source of potential support for U.S. nation-building efforts in Somalia. Similarly, American methods of surveilling Muslims are now being exported to China in a global commodification of anti-Muslim policies and practices….

On the 20th Anniversary of Waco

By Kate Blanchard

…of Haile Selassie’s only visit to Jamaica, which Rastafarians who saw the Ethiopian leader as a messiah continue to celebrate as Grounation (or Groundation) Day. Such stories make me wonder about some people’s attraction to living charismatic leaders. As someone who grew up in a religious tradition that pledged loyalty to only one human being—dead approximately two thousand years—it’s difficult to understand how others can embrace the tremendous…

Racist Hanukkah

By Anthea Butler

…eidels and ate fried foods to celebrate the holiday, stories emerged about Ethiopian Jewish women being given contraceptives as a condition of immigrating to Israel.* However, outsiders are beginning to take note; the plight of these immigrants and the racism in Tel Aviv are depicted in stark detail by a film team from the UK in Vice magazine’s powerful short doc, Last Stop, Tel Aviv. While the Israeli-Palestinian conflict garners much of the medi…