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Politicized Religion Fuels Christian-Muslim Violence In Nigeria

By Elizabeth Dickinson

…ked sidewalks and overpasses of Lagos to the oil-laden creeks of the Niger Delta. There was a profound suffering that overshadowed every aspect of life. There was a profound understanding among everyone I met that, as someone told me before I embarked for Nigeria, anything can happen, and anything could happen. It was a kind of crippling insecurity that rendered life incredibly unjust. But I learned much about the ambiguity of these things, as muc…

Religious Right Targets Obama Picks, Daschle and Holder

By Bill Berkowitz

…e, Focus on the Family began mobilizing its supporters, calling on them to contact their senators and urge them to vote “no” on Daschle’s nomination. Ashley Horne, federal policy analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said that “Citizens who care about family values should be concerned about Daschle’s nomination. Constituents should make their opposition heard on this nominee.” “Tom Daschle is a disaster appointment, the opposite of a national pr…

Who is Mat Staver, Counsel for Anti-Gay Activist Against Suit from Uganda?

By Sarah Posner

…). Lindevaldsen claimed Miller could not be found, and that she had had no contact with Miller and could not represent her since she did not know what her wishes were. Jenkins’ attorney charged in a court filing that Liberty Counsel demonstrated “a clear attempt to assist their client in ducking service by withdrawing.” The court denied Liberty Counsel’s motion. After Miller had been in contempt of court for disregarding both the multiple visitati…

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…ause the court refused outright to let the defendants speak. We called for contact and dialogue rather than conflict and opposition. We reached out a hand to those who, for some reason, assume we are their enemies. In response they laughed at us and spat in our outstretched hands. “You’re disingenuous,” they told us. But they needn’t have bothered. Don’t judge others by your own standards. We were always sincere in what we said, saying exactly wha…

The Landmark 85-Year-Old Report Absent From Debates Over Missionary’s Death

By Amy Fallas

…people protected from outside contact by the Indian government, since “any contact with the islanders could wipe out their culture and possibly even their existence since their immune systems may be no match for modern microbes.” In a journal entry prior to his death, Chau highlighted the motivating force behind his journey into the Indian Ocean: “You guys might think I’m crazy in all this …. But I think it’s worth it to declare Jesus to these peo…

Ultra Orthodox Murder-Suicide Makes Headlines

By Shalom Goldman

…itive, doesn’t it? Except for one thing: by bringing young Haredi men into contact with the permanent emergency that is Israeli civil society, Zaka and the Israeli Army have brought these young men into contact with the world of physical violence, aggression, and gun use. Hitherto protected by their insularity and separateness from Israeli society, these ultra-Orthodox males are becoming socialized to Israeli norms. And they and their community ar…

Defending Minority Religions, Despite Some Bad Practitioners

By Andrew Aghapour and Megan Goodwin

…d be heard. But some of the responses were extremely hostile. Someone even contacted your dean? [They were] concerned that I was, “ignoring the realities of sexism and sexual assault in minority religions.” This person contacted the dean of faculty and also referenced an article I wrote seven years ago to argue that I know nothing about my area of research. I was most surprised by the insistence—largely from women—that I just clearly didn’t care a…

American Missionary Could Face Genocide Charges, But Brazil’s Indigenous Communities Have a Bigger Problem

By Amy Fallas

…67), continue to advocate against over-extraction of natural resources and contact with indigenous peoples that contributes to their erasure. FUNAI has suffered from budget cuts in recent years that will seemingly continue under the Bolsonaro administration, as its advocacy for indigenous autonomy and sovereignty has put the agency at odds with the new president’s platform. According to Dinama Tuxa, coordinator of Brazil’s Association of Indigenou…

How Ancient Rabbis Can Help Combat STI Stigma

By Rebecca Epstein-Levi

…simple matter of “dirty” or “clean.” It was a complicated and fluid web of contact, transmission, treatment, and attentiveness, whose workings carry key lessons for how we treat similarly complex web of sexually transmitted infections today. First, the Mishnah talks about impurity. A lot. In exhaustive detail. It has an entire order, with several tractates, devoted explicitly to the concept. Within these, it breaks down several categories of impur…

Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison

By Nick Street

…es would talk to me and let me do interviews. There were times when I made phone calls to inmates’ family members to let then know that visiting times had changed, to save them a long trip to the prison. I also visited the families of inmates with pastors and other volunteers to bring food, sometimes a gift a child’s dad had made. I basically become part of the lives of the people whose lives I wanted to document. How did a project you undertook f…