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For Trump Admin, Immigration is About Race and Identity

By Aryeh Cohen

…ders must be sealed. It has also come to light that Bannon is a fan of the French novel The Camp of the Saints, which has been described as “racist in the literal sense of the term. It uses race to describe the book’s characters and describes the takeover of Europe by waves of immigrants that wash ashore like the plague.” Bannon has described immigration from Muslim majority countries as a “global Camp of the Saints.” It’s no surprise then that th…

What If Animals Believe in God?

By Andrew Aghapour

…That moment when the elephants gather perhaps echoes something like what [French sociologist Émile] Durkheim called “collective effervescence,” which he thought defined religion by helping people draw boundaries between what was sacred and what was not. What is sacred? At the most simple level, we can say sacred is something special in a particular way. There’s something special about the death of that animal. Presumably, that creates cohesion, w…

ISIS is the Islamic “Reformation”

By Ed Simon

…eve that that the Middle Ages were a particularly brutal period). From the French wars of religion, to the English civil wars, to the Thirty Years’ War (where possibly 30% of German civilians perished) the arrival of modernity signaled terror and horror in many corners. How we use words like “medieval,” “reformation,” and “modern” must be exact if we’re to make any sense out of what the Islamic State is, and how we are to defeat it. Graeme Wood’s…

Times’ Link of NOI With Capitol Killer is Based on Flawed Comparison Between Rightwing Christian Nationalism and Black Religious Nationalism

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…that God is just: That his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!” Was it Minister Louis Farrakhan? Rev. Jeremiah Wright? Some other Black liberation theologian? No, no, and no. These words were penned by Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of In…

Want To Know How 84% of the World Sees Itself: Study Theology

By Alana Massey

…ty of the article is spent looking backwards, reflecting on the psyches of French monks and Byzantine mystics rather than considering that the “insight into the minds and hearts, fears and concerns, of those in circumstances [that] were so wildly different from my own” can be used to understand how the worldwide expansion of Islam and the shift of Christianity from North to South in the last century informs the political, social, and economic beha…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…m was conquered by the British, the Saudis took Mecca, and the British and French carved up the Middle East as spoils of war for themselves, which is kind of like saying his family already tried once, and we’re not down with double jeopardy. #NotWinning (IV) Muhammad Morsi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt The Good: As representative of a Muslim Brotherhood government that allegedly wants to rule the Arab or Muslim worlds, making Morsi Cali…

Transgender, Scientologist, “Cult Hero”

By Jay Michaelson

…erbic, and fearless in her writing. I was also hoping, if you’ll pardon my French, for a good genderfuck, and I got that too. Bornstein, who made her name with the transgender (as in transcending gender) classics Gender Outlaw and My Gender Workbook, not only re-confounded my ideas about gender (and I am a professional queer activist) but forced me to reexamine my assumptions about BDSM and a host of other erotic topics. But what I didn’t know, u…

Uganda’s Radical Anti-Gay Measure and the American Religious Right

By Michelle Goldberg

…l homosexual presence” can be traced through “the Spanish Inquisition, the French ‘Reign of Terror,’ the era of South African apartheid, and the two centuries of American slavery.” Surely, strong measures are necessary to combat something so sinister! In March, Lively, along with Don Schmierer and the Ugandan anti-gay activist Stephen Langa, held a “Seminar on Exposing the Homosexual Agenda” in Uganda’s capital. PRA’s website contains video and te…

Obama in Copenhagen: It’s the Religion, Stupid

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…life into old religious institutions? The answer for Coubertin, who was a French Catholic, involved returning to the Greek source (this had already been a powerful tool of the Counter-Reformation, embodied in a fascinating movement called the “Arcadia,” in Rome in the eighteenth century). But it was Chicago that really sold Coubertin on the idea. The Chicago Worlds Fair was famous for its so-called White City, an enormous Neoclassical complex tha…

RDPulpit: Evangelical Manifesto, the “Chamomile Tea” of Theologies

By Daniel Schultz

…o partisan politics, it can be bought and sold like stocks, simultaneously cheapening the faith and corrupting the secular principles of liberal government. Addressed to every faith community in the United States, the Evangelical Manifesto is a warning American Muslims should heed. To be accepted as full members of a liberal polity, they have to be prepared to accept that their profession of faith is just one feature of their identities among many…