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The Garden of Eden: A Dull Place? Paradise Lust Author Explains…

By Nathan Schneider

…h has turned itself by virtue of the fact into a study of masculinity, at least implicitly. I’ve had to think a lot myself about what thinking about proofs has to do with being male. How about you, though? What does all this thinking about Eden-searchers have to do with being a woman? The “not surprisingly” is just my little bitter feminist joke. It actually was sort of surprising, or certainly disappointing to me as a woman writer working on this…

How Breivik’s “Cultural Analysis” is Drawn from the “Christian Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…n every direction from its traditional heartland: south into black Africa, east into Southeast Asia and the Philippines, north into Europe. And also West: the fastest-growing religion in the United States is Islam. Islam’s thrust northward into Europe, the heartland of Western culture, is worth a closer look. Islamic immigration into France has been so massive as to reverse the verdict of the battle of Tours; southern France now has more mosques t…

Did the Pope Claim Gay Marriage as a Threat to Humanity or Didn’t He?

By Peter Montgomery

…argument that the Reuters article overlooked other newsworthy or higher priority items in the Pope’s address—economic justice, the environment, and violence in the Middle East—is more legitimate, but he can’t claim that the Pope didn’t suggest that gay marriage threatens humanity. He did….

No, I Don’t Owe My Yoga Mat to Vivekananda

By Andrea R. Jain

…techniques, but his yoga was still a countercultural practice to say the least. Modern yoga had quite a long way to go before it would undergo popularization. All this, and yet Bardach writes about Vivekananda as though he reflected something mainstream in American culture: “His prescription for life was simple, and perfectly American: ‘work and worship.’” And she claims that Vivekananda’s popularity waned because America’s “baby boomers commande…

It’s Time To Ordain Women—Again

By Elizabeth Drescher

…these were (or were not) “real” ordinations. At least some churches in the East have decided that the ordinations of women deacons were “real.” For Roman Catholics, the jury on that question is still out. I saw recently that Paulist Press, your publisher, provided an opportunity for readers to buy copies for the US Catholic bishops. Do you expect that they’ll read the book? Phyllis Zagano (PZ): I think they will. My own bishop asked for a copy, as…

Making Fun of Mormonism

By Max Mueller

…ion of Mormons’ “weird” beliefs is political. Mormons are the last (or at least the latest) religious “other” to confront the heart of American politics, to deem themselves American enough to ascend to the presidency. Mormon scholar Newell Bringhurst told me recently that that the current public debates over Mormonism reminds him very much of the debate over Kennedy’s Catholicism in 1960. “Would Kennedy take orders from the Vatican?” many leaders…

Dark Sisters Opera Aims to Humanize Sister Wives

By Joanna Brooks

…ats these women like they’re brainwashed, but we were hyperaware not to be east coast gay guys making fun of them. For me, one of our cast members is very religious—Anglican—and she’s the one in the story who is the true believer, and gets this traditionally beautiful aria, and when she sings about how her mother and grandmother will be with her in heaven, and it helps us see her as a person with her own theological path through things. That’s a r…

The Revolujah! Will Be Performed: Reverend Billy’s Reality Joke

By Nathan Schneider

…t we will offend someone—not necessarily them, but someone. It’s just the least imaginative response. Of course we offend people. But sometimes the provocation gives the character enough traction to get a foot in the door. Sometimes, also, the vocabulary of the preacher and choir feels narrow, too familiar. I think Reverend Billy has to either be dangerous or in danger, be threatened or be threatening, for the character to really work. It’s hard t…

Jesus, Carpet Bomb My Heart: An Undercover Muslim in Detroit

By Haroon Moghul

…what I was doing in Dearborn. She seemed skeptical. So I shared TheCall’s promotional literature, and she was stunned. This poor girl hadn’t realized she was part of any “Islamic movement in America” (in America, but not “American”). That night, I spoke to other Muslims about TheCall. They were either deeply concerned or just shrugged it off. As of Friday night, I would’ve been with the second group. At midnight, I was back in my hotel, stuffed f…

Jeff Sharlet’s Weird Religion, in 13 Chapters

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…lotted in the entanglements of the world. Resolution is not an option. At least, not a human option. “[T]he mountains for some people are not so much a promised land as a place to which to retreat, after the little wars of individual lives have been fought, lost, and run away from.” In lines like this one, Sharlet “emplots” religion by making spaces and things real to readers; gives them a plot of land. Life and love and religion are tangible, p…