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Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…Olympics – Opening Ceremony – Beijing, China 同一个世界同一个梦想 – U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program – FMWRC. Photo via U.S. Army/Flickr 3. Because China: That Thing about Muslim Plurality in 2070 Might Not Actually Be True The wild card that could sink item 2: China. Five years ago, China’s Christian population was an estimated 65 million—just 5% of the country’s population of 1.3 billion—including the two sects of state-sanctioned Christian churches…

India’s Elections and the “Doniger Affair”

By Murali Balaji

…te has been shaped across philosophical, ideological, political religious, class, and caste lines, in which sides that have competing interests occasionally join forces or those with similar goals find themselves as enemies. The story begins in the final years of the Indian independence movement, when the divisions among some Indian nationalist groups—particularly within the left—grew into open conflict. In 1946, a Communist-backed revolt of peasa…

W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet

By Edward J. Blum

…merican context must take note of the past and present racial, gender, and class surroundings that create distance and breed alienation. Anything you had to leave out? There were so many other topics I wanted to include. I wanted to write more about his burial, about why there was a cross above his casket. I wanted to write more about his relationships with African American ministers, whose letters he published regularly in The Crisis and with who…

Devil’s Bookmark: Sex and Drugs and Hating God

By Bernard Schweizer

…Cherubim at the top, Principalities and Archangels constituting the middle class, and Guardian Angels as the working class of angels. France has considerable fun with this social ranking by having members of the angelic bourgeoisie (the Archangels) foment political revolution in heaven with methods taken straight out of the anarchist playbook, while the revolution’s foot-soldiers are depicted as angelic lumpenproletariat (literally so, as Maurice…

Furious, Shaking, and Nauseated

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…on Thursday a bill arrived on Brewer’s desk that would ban ethnic studies classes in schools. According to the bill’s language, schools that promote “the overthrow of the US government, promote resentment toward a race or class of people, are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group, or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals,” are at risk of losing state funding. In addition, the Arizona Boa…

S.O.S.

By Amina Wadud

…rds”. Non-suhur people are NOT morning people. They may get up for work or class or an appointment but only for work or class or an appointment, and when these do not force them to get up, they sleep in. Even if they have one of those kind of five-days-a-week schedules that forces them up, it never becomes the norm; but is always an abnormal necessity. Therefore on the weekends, they stay in bed asleep for as long as they feel normal. Non-suhur pe…

Updated with Response: The Black Church is Dead—Long Live the Black Church

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

…hes. In the words of Langston Hughes, “We, too, sing America!” Intraracial class warfare, gender discrimination, ethnocentrism and xenophobia are all realities that retard African-American Protestant communities. Not to mention the lax restrictions and nonexistent ecclesial regulations of the evangelical tradition that continues to cultivate charismatic yet conniving religious leaders. Sure, for some, the black church represents freedom. But for o…

How to Wreck Your Faith: A Theologian Teaches “Outlaw Christianity”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…out. Are your students moving away from traditional religion? I just had a class, and it was fascinating. The class was diverse, but they were unanimous in their anger at theodicies because theodicies had been spoken to them in a time when they just did not satisfy. A real concern my students have is the hypocrisy of Christianity. A lot of my students are gay, and they don’t feel like they can be themselves. They resonate with parts of my book bec…

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

By Ben Brazil

…sort of authenticity in his 1976 The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class. But even before the Beatles 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, cri…

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…ople who love and respect them are coming out right along with them. The classic instance is the faithful older church woman—a devoted and beloved member of the community—who, at just the right moment in a congregational meeting, stands up and says, “Well, friends, I guess we can argue about all of this until the cows come home. All I know is that ________, my ________, is as dear a child of God as I will ever hope to be.” She then goes on to te…