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Nonviolent Resistance in the West Bank: A Review of Budrus

…the Gandhian sense, since it would deny our essential freedom. But feeling compelled to recognize that we are complicit in the evil, and that we must make a choice one way or the other, is the very essence of nonviolence. Watching the people of Budrus wrestle with life-and-death choices on the screen can be a profound experience if it leads us to wrestle with the same kind of choices after we leave the theater. After I left the theater I found mys…

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A Catholic Sister, a Buddhist Nun, and Two Rabbis: Friendship That Goes Beyond “Interfaith”

…y. Ven. Pelyang was raised Jewish, Sr. Margaret was not. What they have in common is their commitment to nuns’ life and their attachment to Temple Beth-El, a synagogue affiliated with the Jewish Renewal movement known as the “shul by the sea.” The relationship between the nuns and rabbis is not merely tolerant but is one of what Reb Zalman named “deep ecumenism.” Before his passing, Rabbi Zalman, founder of the Jewish Renewal Movement, developed a…

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Religious Kids Are More Selfish: The Stickers Don’t Lie

…hool? Ditto. Parents’ education levels? Missing. Heterogeneity of the surrounding community? Also left out. And so on. More slippery, though, is that this kind of works requires some way of measuring religiousness, such that you can get a scale that works the same in mostly-Muslim Amman as it does in mostly-Christian Chicago, and also in Guangzhou, where concepts of ritual and religiousness are wildly different than those held in the Western world…

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Did Richard Dawkins Hand Creationists Their Next School Strategy?

…result in an “‘excessive government entanglement’ with religious affairs” Under the Lemon test, the Dover school board didn’t have much of a defense, because the board members’ religious motives were pretty transparent. As Jones outlines in his opinion, “members of the [Dover School] Board spoke openly in favor of teaching creationism and disparaging the theory of evolution on religious grounds.” As a result, Judge Jones could have just said Come…

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La Carmina, Author of ‘The Little Book of Satanism,’ Talks ‘Satanic Panic,’ QAnon, Japanese Satanism, and More

…pan, and it takes on a different expression because of the cultural background. Only around one percent of Japanese identify as Christian, so locals don’t grow up with the fundamentalist influences or Biblical narratives that are omnipresent in countries like the US. However, Japanese society is notoriously conservative and conformist. In this context, Satanists find meaning and motivation in the idea of Lucifer as an authority-questioning rebel….

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Looking For Answers at the Oscars: A Guide to This Year’s Contenders

…films, Prince Albert/King George VI must confront his past, relatively-hidden identity to become someone other than he is: the King and public voice of one of the world’s greatest empires. Finally, Black Swan just messed with all of it. Natalie Portman stuns in a decentered, ego-less series of doppelganging adventures. The film portends that she who is too determined in the quest for a specific (perfected) identity will surely end up losing it (o…

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A How-To Guide for Keeping Up With the Events in #Egypt

…a list of some of the best voices and thinkers on the situation on the ground in Egypt. I don’t endorse all their views and opinions, of course, but I believe they are nuanced, interesting, intriguing, provocative or deeply insightful persons, whether on the ground or reporting from farther away. In no particular order: @Arabist @HSMoghul (hell why not?) @BelTrew @MaxBlumenthal  @RawyaRageh  @AymanM  @SherineT  @ddknyt  @shadihamid  @hahellyer  @…

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So You Want to Write an Article Deflecting All Blame From Christianity: A Handy Guide

…insically good” religion too weak to overcome it? The historian George Marsden complains about “political loyalties” that can sometimes corrupt “a more traditional religious faith”—as if a more traditional faith weren’t already political. Not once does it occur to such experts that perhaps there are some authoritarian and tribalistic tendencies built into Christianity, which can be traced all the way back to Jesus himself (as Andre E. Key notes he…

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Toward a Richer Ethical Discourse in Trumplandia: A Response to Harper’s “Trump: A Resister’s Guide”

…talism” and “social reproduction” to bear on the challenge of preserving a commitment to identity politics within the broader project of fomenting revolution from below. Barker urges us to recognize that “the struggles currently glossed as ‘class’ and ‘identity’ are both capable of sketching broad, universalizing horizons or narrow, particularizing ones: the causes can bring people together or divide them to be conquered.” Barker concludes: “We ne…

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