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Robot Kills a Worker in Germany… Who’s to Blame?

By Hilary Ledwell

Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, Western nations have harbored a collective anxiety about the replacement of human jobs by mechanized labor. Economists have long tried to predict which jobs will be lost to machines, but they offer no guarantees. People fear being replaced. But robots aren’t just taking jobs. Last Monday, at a Volkwagen plant in Germany, one robot killed an employee. The machine in question—a sophisticated automotive…

Why Moscow Wants to Crack Down on Foreign Funding for Minority Religious Orgs

By Diana Dukhanova

…on a large portion of the populace) about the danger that foreign, usually Western European and American, values represent for the amorphous category of “traditional Russian values.” Organizations that accept financial support from abroad are, by the logic of this bill, presumed to also be under possible anti-Russian influence and to thus pose the threat of disseminating anti-Russian ideas. Of course, in the current public discourse foreign influe…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…tend concerts in Kuala Lampur, and there is already a Malaysian scene for “Western” music, you’ll find Malay skinheads, punks, metalheads, and rappers. Pakistan is mostly a place for ballads, and bhangra. Q: Assuming international impact, are we seeing transnational connections being made? For example, the UK Asian Underground, the US/Indian Asian Massive [as the MIDIval PunditZ consider themselves to be part of Asian Massive], and the Indian Cybe…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…ion is standard among various factions of the Christian Right, but Wallnau promotes a unique and even more pernicious brand of NAR teachings on gender and sexuality, including the dangerous idea that LGBTQ-identifying kids need to be “delivered” from demons. As noted earlier, “deliverance” among NAR adherents is coded language for exorcism, which is an even more noxious version of the psychologically (and often physically) harmful practice of LGBT…

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

By Andrea R. Jain

…s and movements, including military calisthenics, modern medicine, and the Western European and North American physical culture of gymnasts, bodybuilders, martial experts, and contortionists. Yoga proponents constructed new postural yoga systems in the twentieth century, and nothing like them appeared in the historical record up to that time. Another unfortunate but common misconception is that yoga is a mere commodity of global market capitalism…

Texas Textbooks, Kenyan Constitution, And Slurs Of “That Jew” and “Monkey God”

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…loy to reduce the population of his growing sect” that does not believe in Western medicine. Arkansas state senator Kim Hendren attempted to explain why she referred to Senator Chuck Schumer as “that Jew” by saying “At the meeting I was attempting to explain that unlike Sen. Schumer, I believe in traditional values, like we used to see on The Andy Griffith Show.” Hendren attracted 4 percent of the vote in the first round of the GOP Senate primary…

‘Brazil’s Trump’ Bolsonaro Lost — But Anti-Democratic Movements Seldom Accept Electoral Defeat

By Craig Johnson

…Bannon, trucks with right-wing nationalist narratives like “the decline of western civilization” as a euphemism for the threat a multi-racial, pluralist democracy poses to White Christian nationalist supremacy. This has led Bannon to talk about Trump and the victory of his Christian Right agenda as a form of preventive warfare, vital for defending civilization itself, which he and other Christian nationalists assume to be Christian. Their entire c…

Putin’s Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There’s Reason to Believe it’ll Go Mainstream

By Thomas Lecaque

…next to us, because we may run short on pesticides.” He also declared that western nations are “minions of the Antichrist and the Dajjal,” and (no surprise) linked it to Pride parades. And finally, the Security Council of the Russian Federation on Monday moved from “denazification” rhetoric to “desatanization” rhetoric with regard to Ukraine. https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1584930049480085505?s=20&t=l2nK5nePzcjlHQldwek09w The danger of…

American Horror Story: Hotel and Monotheism’s Dirty Little Secrets

By W. Scott Poole

…rought cosmic harmony to the universe. Such concepts are mostly unknown to Western European and West Asian monotheisms. Monotheism exhibits a peculiar talent for creating monsters of moral degeneracy, horrors of perversity. The idea of one God creates irresolvable tensions, raises questions about the source of suffering in a world created by a Being both omnipotent and allegedly full of compassion. Monsters, Christianity’s Satan lurking in the sha…

The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Eric C. Miller

…They are constantly identifying social evils that will lead to the end of Western civilization—rock ‘n’ roll, of course, but more recently same-sex marriage, national health care, etc. What can this study teach us about evangelical cultural engagement more broadly? In the book, I wanted to talk about evangelicalism in a way that went beyond politics, because there has already been quite a bit of focus on conservative Christianity and politics—to…