Religion Dispatches
…e explicitly claiming to hold to, but examples they use to describe the AltRight generally. But in so describing the AltRight, they reveal what many of us have sensed all along: that Islam is not, in my subjective definition (or the experience of many Muslims), purely a religious identity, and that Islam, as it is publicly discussed and framed, especially on the right, is never purely a religion, separable from cultural, ethnic, racial and nationa…
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…se the statute protects their rights under the 2011 Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. These rights they claim include freedom of religion, equality before the law, the right to a healthy environment, and the right to privacy. They also claim that gay men must be banned from having sex because that will inevitably lead to the exploitation of children. “During the hearing of the applications, the court stated that some of the churches’ all…
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…vil: When all the prisoners of the land are crushed under foot, when human rights are perverted in the presence of the Most High, when one’s case is subverted —does the Lord not see it? (Lam. 3:34-36) Why does the way of the guilty proposer? Why do all who are treacherous thrive? … Their course has been evil, and their might is not right. (Jer. 12:1b & 23:10b) The all-encompassing, oppressive ideology of Jeremiah’s day was lauded by the urban elit…
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…ething more snappy, and so they suggested Why Horror Seduces. They had the right idea. It is snappy. I like it. How do you feel about the cover? I love the cover. I took that picture myself (with my cell phone), and the press did a great job with the layout. The picture is of a hallway in Dystopia Haunted House, a big haunted attraction in Denmark. I’m doing some scientific consulting for them and have also done two large-scale quantitative resear…
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…lace each March, complete with cute little bags where you can put your cellphone and stop looking at it for awhile. There’s a clear Jewish inspiration (unplugging day goes from Friday evening to Saturday evening, just like Shabbat), but there’s no overtly religious content, and the organization is explicit about wanting to reach people of all backgrounds. When I spoke with Reboot communications manager Tanya Schevitz earlier this year, she said th…
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…nvention considers whether or not to denounce white supremacy and the “alt-right,” it apparently has no such equivocation over the place for LGBT Christians at its annual gathering: gays and those preaching tolerance for them are not welcome inside the Convention’s annual meeting. At least, that’s the message sent loud and clear to a small group of activists who tell RD they were “forcibly removed” from the convention this morning in Phoenix, Ariz…
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…Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association, International Service for Human Rights, and OutRight Action International. Earlier this month, a delegate from Egypt told a UN committee: Our position on the matter is clear, that we do not recognize the mandate of the independent expert and therefore are not in a position to engage, interact or cooperate with the mandate holder. While reiterating our firm commitment to combat different forms of violence…
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…d is the resoundingly human process of grappling with the mysterious, the frightening, and the strange: we wrap it in what we know (perhaps in a $30 Eclipseville-branded fleece blanket). As the town tries to domesticate the eclipse and convert its weirdness into a boon, Hopkinsville’s citizens are revealing what’s important to them, whether they be civic-minded citizens of an economically struggling Southern town or science-minded emissaries from…
Read More…ollow the same sequence of events,” said Kyle Knight, a researcher on LGBT rights at Human Rights Watch. “And there’s reason to believe that what’s happening in Tajikistan now is based on things their government there has learned from, say, what Azerbaijan just did.” The Post also reported from Cairo on the intensifying crackdown there: Gay rights activists view the suppression of their community as part of an effort to distract from the country’s…
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…sse’s nostalgia for grassroots impulses lead him to pinpoint the religious right’s rise before Reagan. It was Nixon, not Reagan, Sasse argues, who brought political vitality to the religious right as a grassroots movement, emphasizing a “cleavage” between the religious and the irreligious, and leaning on the support of the evangelist Billy Graham to burnish his credentials. The GOP didn’t win over working class white voters by opposing civil right…
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