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Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…he Middle East, sometimes defined generously to include Berbers, Turks, or South Asians, as a kind of Islamic heartland, where the “real Islam” exists; those from outside the region are assumed to be more recently converted, and thus less authentically Muslim. This frame’s even used by those who consider it charitable: Indonesia’s Islam is often described as syncretic, which means moderate, implying that “real Islam” is 1) not to be found in Indon…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…onclusions of a new study on sexual diversity by the Academy of Science of South Africa. Uganda’s infamous anti-gay laws were justified with a study which Ugandan MPs claimed stated: “Homosexuality is not a disease but merely an abnormal behaviour which may be learned through experiences in life. In every society, there is a small number of people with homosexuality tendencies. “The practice needs regulation like any other human behaviour especial…

Céad Mile Fáilte: Open Hearts, Shifting Power Paradigms, and the Irish Same-Sex Referendum

By Gareth Higgins

…tive religion tore families apart, as Catholics and Protestants, North and South, were inhibited or even forcibly prevented from marrying; yet the deep roots and fertile soil of Celtic spirituality nurture a personal and community wholeness that is certainly not bound by puritanical notions of who is “in”and who is “out.” The loudest religious voices in the North nurtured enmity between people who might otherwise have been good neighbors; and in t…

Competitive Religious Philanthropy in the Wake of the Nepali Earthquake

By Nalika Gajaweera

…itself becomes entangled in these places of intervention. In many parts of South Asia, controversy over religious conversion has intensified in recent decades, particularly as a result of the rise of Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity and new forms of evangelism. Christian charitable groups increasingly are viewed with suspicion as carrying proselytizing intentions. The statement by the diaspora-based Hindu American Foundation is grounded in the…

Resurrecting Marley at 70: Rastafari History in 5 Songs

By Darren J. N. Middleton

…er heroes, like Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere, and even South Africa’s Steve Biko. Having taught African religions in the States for more than twenty years now, I can say that it’s well time they should. Just as civil rights triumphed over Jim Crow, immigrant patterns in the US began to change radically, complicating not only the traditional white-black binary but the very nature of black America, which now reflects the diversit…

Fake, Evil, Spiritual, Commodified; What’s the Truth About Popular Yoga?

By Andrea R. Jain

…. By the end of the first millennium C.E., yoga systems were widespread in South Asia as Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, and others prescribed them. Throughout its premodern history, yoga was culturally South Asian but did not belong to any single religious tradition. The history of modern postural yoga also problematizes the identification of yoga as Hindu. That history is a paragon of cultural encounters in the process of constructing something new in…

Accept Gays? Only If They Know Their Place

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…bt folk as equal? When Elke Kennedy’s son Sean was killed on a Greenville, South Carolina street two years ago by a man who called him a “faggot” before hitting him in the face so hard it separated his brain stem from his brain, the one place she could not go for comfort was the church. In Crisis, a new book that features forty stories, including Elke’s, about the pain and trauma suffered by gay and lesbian people and their families, Elke writes:…

Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…licy circles in North America and Europe and by many academics invested in promoting religious freedom). It is, rather, an inescapably context-bound, polyvalent concept unfolding within divergent histories in differing political orders. This realization has led us to pose a number of crucial questions to those engaged in the promotion of religious freedom as a stable and singular human right. These questions, explored in detail in the PoRF volume…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…dential election. A handful of same-sex couples have exchanged vows in the South American nation since July 2013, but Colombian Inspector General Alejandro Ordóñez Maldonado has challenged these unions in court. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet last year backed nuptials for gays and lesbians during her election campaign. Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban President Raúl Castro, has also spoken out in support of marriage rights for same-sex coupl…

Scientology: All-American or Aging Hoax?

By Gordon Haber

…y has been digging for dirt on Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, for satirizing the church in the 2005 episode “Trapped in the Closet.” The church allegedly hired investigators to go through their trash and to collect information about their staff. (Meanwhile, the most offensive thing about the episode was that it wasn’t all that funny.) While there is something undeniably disturbing about The Church of Scientology, there’s…