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The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorist Continues with New Zealand Attack

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…nationalism around the world, from the U.S. and Europe, through the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, have provided just such a social context. Despite the acceptance of multiculturalism by most people as a normal and interesting way of living in the wake of the dramatic demographic shifts in this era of globalization—or perhaps in an ugly reaction to the multiculturalism of global societies—racism and right-wing nationalism around the…

Is Religion a Game?

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…Muhammad, and fundamental to Buddhism since the Bodhi-Dharma left for the East. There is a certain primal desire to suggest to others that “my world” is the right one. Games, and religions, are about creating ever-new worlds, accompanied by the enticing suggestion to come to my world to play. If we want to understand religions, we have to understand their game-like qualities, and that religion might, at the heart of it all, be a game. Which does…

A Boundary-Busting Memoir of Love, Mental Illness, and Being Muslim in America

By Haroon Moghul

…here you wish you had written? Which one? Why? The Lord of the Rings, not least because, if I wrote it, I would be able to write more books about Middle Earth and then I’d finally know what happened to, say, the Avari. I get that it’s about the origins of modern Europe, but why does the East have to be such a malicious place? What’s your next book? I’m working on three novels, a proper trilogy, that I can best describe as a cross between science f…

The War on Terror is Over; Tahrir Buried It

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…he Muslim Brotherhood—Muslim radicals in Egypt, as elsewhere in the Middle East, defy the clergy and claim religious authority on their own—the Mufti believes the religious activists will play a positive role in the new government, and that the days of religious violence in Egypt are over. Later I met with an old friend, one of Egypt’s leading sociologists and human rights activists, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who had been imprisoned by Mubarak’s regime….

Eat, Pray, Trash: What the Critics Don’t See

By Ben Brazil

…tles went to India, elite Westerners had begun juxtaposing the “spiritual” East to the “materialist” West, a move that (as post-colonial critics have pointed out) projected Western desires and fantasies onto people denied the space to define themselves. When Julia Roberts seeks wholeness in an Indian ashram or the homes of Balinese healers, critics argue she reinforces those cultural constructs. And another problem: “Authenticity” and “wholeness”…

Another Far Right Theocrat Shows up on the Trump Team

By Julie Ingersoll

…h is framed as persecution from the Trump Administration—but there are at least two other places to keep an eye Sekulow’s influence. ACLJ has developed an international presence and launched The East African Center for Law and Justice in 2010 when several African countries were revising their constitutions. They worked to secure privileged status for “biblical principles,” including the outlawing of abortion (even when the mother’s life was in dan…

What Good Is It for Union to Gain the World, But Forfeit Its Soul?

By Yazmine Nichols

…surrounding neighborhood of West Harlem? The former is done in the name of promoting ‘diversity,’ while the latter is done in the name of preserving the seminary. Both espouse a capitalist ethic cloaked in liberalism. Union’s condo controversy is not about who gets the most airtime, who can quote the most theologians, or who has access to ultimate, divinely inspired truth. The condo controversy is about empty vessels and soulless institutions. It…

Is “Israel-Firster” Anti-Semitic?

By Sarah Posner

…permanent frontier. In 1980, twelve thousand Jews lived in the West Bank, “east of democracy,” Beinart writes; now they number more than three hundred thousand, and include Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s wildly xenophobic Foreign Minister. Lieberman has advocated the execution of Arab members of parliament who dare to meet with leaders of Hamas. His McCarthyite allies call for citizens to swear loyalty oaths to the Jewish state; for restrictions on h…

French Theologian Urges Islam to Self-Critique, Fails to Notice Log in Own Eye

By Daniel J. Schultz

…the French who trace their origins to the Maghreb, West Africa, and South East Asia, or the immigrants who live beyond the confines of Paris’ périphérique. The “we” that needs to be reminded that it is at war is the “we” that has been waging it for over a century. This is the (generic Western, liberal, mostly white) “we” whose punditry rallies to the strong rhetoric of war when something tragic occurs in New York, Madrid, London, and Paris, but w…

How Mormon is Mitt Romney? Over 50 Jokes For Trump

By Joanna Brooks

…the Secret Service with the Danites. Mitt is so Mormon his Secret Service codename will be Mahonri Moriancumr. Mitt is so Mormon he thinks Harvard is the BYU of the east. Mitt is so Mormon he thought the debt ceiling was something that could only happen in a temple. Mitt is so Mormon, he doesn’t campaign: he “fellowships.” Mitt is so Mormon that he’s installing two basketball hoops at the inaugural ball so there’s a place to hang decorations. Mit…