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Romney Campaign to Surrender Evangelicals in 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…kely to have significant strategy impacts not only in Iowa but also in the South. For now, the Romney campaign seems focused on making endorsements—now numbering 100 or more—in key 2010 races, including successful GOP gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley in South Carolina. This strategy shift reflects a refinement of the Romney 2008 campaign’s tactic of downplaying the candidate’s faith entirely as well as a renewed focus (taking a page from his fr…

State Department Finds Religion, But Whose?

By Melani McAlister

…row, as US policy evolved to support the country’s division into Sudan and South Sudan in 2010. But the law plays virtually no role in US policy toward Saudi Arabia, given that, for 15 years, the president has waived sanctions on the basis of US national security interests.) More recently, people generally mean that the US should engage “religious actors,” particularly groups on the ground in the Global South. Sometimes these groups are doing huma…

Tajwid: To Read with Love… and Competence

By Amina Wadud

…ral background, they are from all over: Arab, Middle Eastern, African, and South Asian. I at least saw one other African-American woman once. Keep in mind that I am arriving only to time to join the already-formed prayer lines, which means I tend to see more of the women from the back deal. These assessments might be also inaccurate. As I said, I plan to go for iftar on Sunday and get some eye contact. Now that the speaker volume has been adjusted…

The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…ye for an eye” punishment for injuries he inflicted in a fight. Drivers in South Carolina may soon be able to put their faith where their plate is with a new “I Believe” licence plate featuring three crosses. A Hindu woman in Illinois has been fighting the City of Evanston over the chopping down of a tree next to her property. The woman’s belief in ahimsa, or nonviolence, prevented her from having anything to do with the felling of the living tree…

Death in the Desert: Riding With the Samaritans

By Lauri Lebo

…her David says, immigrants typically crossed the border near Nogales, just south of Tucson, which is a less remote area and less dangerous. But the recent crackdown has pushed immigrants into more rugged regions further west on the Tohono O’odham reservation. The increase in deaths coincides with Arizona’s recent bitter legal fight over HB 1070, the law signed in April which places the burden on individuals to prove they are in the country legally…

Favorite Places, Favorite Prayers

By Amina Wadud

…ent last night in good spiritual company but it was almost two hours drive south to get there. Not being a night person, I got permission to stay over night in their retreat room. For people who let the hustle and bustle of city life get the best of them, I highly recommend such quarters: blissful darkness, with a gentle hooting owl in an otherwise silent night. But I was up and out this morning before the sunrise, because I have a full day ahead…

Ponzi Pastor, Bacon Terrorism, & Spiritual Jewelry

By Michael J. Altman

In a South Carolina jail only one book is allowed: the Bible—and even then it has to be paperback. The ACLU is suing the jail for its sola scriptura policy. A Muslim inmate in Nebraska is suing Lancaster County because he was served pork while in custody. Senate candidate Sharon Angle’s former pastor denounced her opponent Harry Reid’s Mormonism, calling the Latter-day Saints a cult. Meanwhile, Angle herself warned that Muslim law was taking over…

Pakistan’s ‘Martyrs of Love’ Under Attack

By Daanish Faruqi

…the Veiled), al-Hujwiri played no small role in the spreading of Islam in South Asia. One can’t help but wonder why a man of his stature would stir up so much enmity among Islamic extremists, to the point that they were willing to commit such an unspeakable atrocity in the name of their faith. Sadly, July’s bombing in Lahore would only be one of several strings of unprovoked acts of sectarian violence by Pakistani extremists this year, culminatin…

Mormon-Born Daya Mata Typifies American Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain

…the ancient and classical systems of raja yoga or hatha yoga that saturate South Asian culture. For Yogananda, yoga was the scientific path to the experience of God, and that path was as much about Christ consciousness as Krishna consciousness. This was a hybrid product of Hindu, Christian, and modern ideas about the nature of God, the nature of the Self, and the nature of the human body. By the 1960s and the influx of gurus to the United States w…

“Dark” Skin No Longer a Curse in Online Book of Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

…h attributed racial variation to Biblical curses, specifically identifying African-descended peoples as heirs to curses imposed on Cain or Ham. The Book of Mormon, however, also showed that all civilizations—Nephites as well as Lamanites—were vulnerable to pride, apostasy, and collapse and capable of spiritual rededication and regeneration, regardless of skin color. The LDS Church never withheld priesthood from members of indigenous American desce…