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London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…es subcultures into conformance despite their less happy circumstances. In Western societies like Britain and the United States, the affluence of the powerful few, uninterested with religion as they happily are, shapes the norms of religious participation for the society as a whole. The effect is to minimize the role of religion as a social balm. That is, the United Kingdom, among the ten least religious nations in Diener’s study, is pretty much a…

How the Conspiratorial American Right is Spinning the Egypt Protests

By Sarah Posner

…is behind the protests, and that Obama is somehow linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, and an evil plot to subvert “Judeo-Christian” values, America, and Western civilization — swirling around conservative media in the coming days….

How Does an Atheist Come to Believe in God?: An Interview with Jacob Needleman

By Lisa Webster

…Francisco State and I was obliged to teach a course called the History of Western Religious Thought. For me I had no desire to teach anything like that. I was totally allergic to religion. But I had training as a philosophy student, a grad student, a PhD. I did very well, was at the best colleges, best universities— Harvard, Yale—and I was willing to undertake preparing myself to teach such a course. Philosophers generally don’t want to come anyw…

Cafeteria Christianity in the Age of Social Media: What’s Old Is New Again

By Kate Blanchard

…t remained sacred to Germanic Christians; the break-up between Eastern and Western churches in 1054 was largely a matter of Roman intolerance of Eastern variety; and medieval inquisitions existed for the purpose of cracking down on unlawful Christian variations. This is to say nothing of the picking and choosing unleashed in the 16th century by Luther and his ilk. (What could be more ironic than any Protestant pointing fingers at anyone about pick…

Claiming Solzhenitsyn

By Kathryn Joyce

…emember the equal criticism that the devoutly Orthodox author had for “the Western system in its present state of spiritual exhaustion [that] does not look attractive,” and the blame he laid for it at the door of humanism, which he declared “proclaimed and enforced autonomy of man from any higher force above him. It could also be called anthropocentricity, with man seen as the center of everything that exists.” On his return to post-Soviet Russia…

Ban on Female Genital Cutting in Somaliland is Progress, But Success Relies on Working with Religious Leaders

By Chelsea Garbell

…ists, know that it will be enforced (and is not simply a ploy for positive Western PR), and believe in the justness of the law itself. Local community empowerment programs that provide the education and agency to envision another future are the tools needed to end FGC. Law is important, but without donor support and international advocacy for local religious leaders to argue for change, along with organizations like those previously mentioned, it…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…nts out that Christian Zionism “fosters fear and hatred of Muslims and non-Western Christians,” and “can lead to the dehumanization of Israelis and Palestinians.” The brochure also notes that Christian Zionism leads to a conclusion that “involves the death of all non-Christians, including Jews, through apocalyptic warfare or divine judgment,” and “is not based on traditional teaching or doctrines of the Church.” The brochure is being distributed b…

2 Steps Forward, 3 Steps Back, 1 Step Sideways: The Chaotic Progression of LGBTQ Inclusion at Christian Colleges

By Donovan Ackley III

…connection between misogyny and homophobia in an increasingly patriarchal western Christianity is explicit. While, like Augustine, acknowledging the existence of “hermaphrodites” (intersex people), 12th-century theologian Peter Cantor explained that “the church allows a hermaphrodite—that is, someone with the organs of both sexes, capable of either active or passive functions—to use the organ by which (s)he is most aroused or the one which (s)he…

Why I Will Not See The Help: A Rant

By Rosetta E. Ross

…in structuring and sustaining social systems. A predominant element of the Western imaginary, the idea that black persons ultimately exist as servants for white life, has long been supported by rhetorical constructions of Christianity. The most obvious examples, of course, were rituals such as catechisms about the necessity for [black] servants to obey [white] masters. Less obvious examples include contemporary statements pairing assertions that t…

Animal Sacrifice and Sexuality in Santería

By Nick Street

…e as the practice itself. Unlike Santería practice in other regions of the Western Hemisphere, practice in the U.S. includes people from many ethnic and racial groups. In fact, there are groups here, like Puerto Ricans, who take up forms of the practice more often associated with other groups, like Cubans. Over the course of my work, I’ve redefined Santería as a religious-cultural practice, and not simply a religion, because of the links between d…