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Reality as Revelation: “Hail Caesar!” is the Coen Brothers’ Most Religious Movie Yet

By Elijah Siegler

…re. A year later, the Coens offered us True Grit, a remake of a John Wayne Western. Critics found it light and accessible, positively “un-Coen like,” and the fact that the film was their biggest box office hit (perhaps in part because it featured Hollywood stars Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon) seemed to confirm its flimsy status. But several other critics (notably Stanley Fish and Armond White), perhaps more attuned to religious matters, noticed how…

“The Left” and Islamists to Bring Down Judeo-Christian America

By Julie Ingersoll

…And he claimed they planned the “Arab Spring” as a first step in the more westernized Middle Eastern nations by showing a screenshot of a website from February 2010 with a banner headline proclaiming “Freedom!” And now, “Lots of guys who are al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood in the capitol” and in everyother important American institution. They see the “expansion of mosques” in the U.S. as a key part of the infiltration strategy. Building “mega Islami…

Meditation is Very Relaxing, Says New York Times

By Jay Michaelson

…e, because my experience, as both a practitioner and a teacher, is that it promotes much more than relaxation. It opens the heart, it clarifies the mind; like the torso of Apollo in Rilke’s poem, it often demands, “you must change your life.” And if the thirst for “balance and harmony” (Atlas’ words) is the inspiration for practice—well, why not? If Atlas’ presentation of Buddhism seems trivial at times, that same smallness of scale makes it appro…

Killing One Primate to Save Another: The Ethics of Animal Rights

By Arri Eisen

…foes. Instead, let’s talk about animal research, ethics, and religion. We Western humans of the Judeo-Christian tradition have come a long way in our understanding and engagement with non-human animals. Crudely put, we realize now that animals are not put here for us to use as we please. And, due in many ways to animal rights activists, research on animals is now done exponentially more carefully than at any point in the history of such work. Whe…

This Year’s Best Books in African American Religion

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ding to Carter the roots of modernity’s racial imagination can be found in Western Christianity’s racialization of the Jews as Semites which led in turn to both a severing of Christianity from its Jewish roots and an outright embrace of white supremacy or “the theological problem of whiteness.” It is this racialized pre-Enlightenment theological discourse that undergirds the racial theories of Immanuel Kant and other modern notions of race. Now I…

Fear, Nostalgia and Power Drove Evangelicals to Trump: Interview with Evangelical Scholar John Fea

By Eric C. Miller

…favor of the king. There is a long history of this kind of flattery in the Western tradition. When I see people like Falwell, Graham, Jeffress, Ralph Reed, Paula White, and any of these others who go to the White House to flatter Trump and never offer a word of criticism—whether it be about Stormy Daniels or building a wall or anything else—I’m reminded that they have sacrificed their moral vision in order to get whatever they can from him. That’s…

Manchester—Last Gasp of a Failing Terror Movement?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…lman Abedi would do such a thing. Was he motivated by a deep hatred of the Western culture that surrounded him as he grew up in Manchester? Was he brain-washed into a religious ideology that made him think that his act would bring him instant salvation? Or was his motivation more personal, simply a longing to prove himself, to make a mark on history? The motivations for Abedi are not yet clear. However, in my monitoring of online Twitter chats amo…

Does Violence Always Win?: Learning From René Girard (1923-2015)

By Martha J. Reineke

…t.” In Sacrifice, one of his last books, Girard moves outside the orbit of Western religion to observe in the Hindu Vedas an eclipse of the sacrificial logic governing human culture that uncovers its mechanism in ways comparable though not identical to that disclosure in the sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity. Students of mimetic theory have followed Girard’s own example in pursuing a critical engagement with his theory. In recent years, sch…

Imagine No Religion: Sustaining Morality Without God

By Konstantin Petrenko

…The one advantage of religiously-based morality—the fact that it claims to promote “absolute” or “objective” values—is also its greatest weakness. For one, religious ethics require belief in certain theological doctrines or sacred texts, limiting moral discourse to one religious tradition and excluding the majority of humanity. In an increasingly pluralistic and globalized society, religiously-based ethics cannot produce any sort of moral consensu…

Rope of God: The Aceh Tsunami—Four Years On

By Mark Woodward

…st for Aceh and Indonesia but for the world. A series of amateur videos by Western tourists in Malaysia and Thailand showed the tsunami striking beach resorts in all of its force. It did not distinguish between Asians and Westerners, or between Muslims and non-Muslims. It was an equal-opportunity killer. This evening was not just for Acehenese Muslims, but for people of all faiths and ethnicities. Theodicy seeks to explain why it is that a benevol…