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When I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be

By Haroon Moghul

We used to buy my grandfather the coolest sneakers. Remember Reebok Pumps? He might have been the first man in Islamabad to own them. Mr. Abdul-Bari would stroll into Lal Masjid, Islamabad’s reddish-hued mosque (hence the name), wearing a long cotton tunic and baggy pants, the stereotypical shalwar kamiz. But his feet would represent the best of American youth culture—or at least the consumer consequences of his daughter’s migration West, such th…

Appeals Court Eviscerates Notre Dame’s Objections to Contraception Accommodation

By Patricia Miller

…o which Notre Dame women should send the bills for the contraceptives they buy? Alternatively, must every woman who wants reimbursement of contraceptive costs pick a health insurance company, maybe on the basis of a Google search, to contract with? As for Notre Dame’s fifth proposed solution, that it and other Catholic nonprofits be allowed to comply with the mandate by providing coverage for Natural Family Planning training and materials, Posner…

You Gotta Have Faith-Based Politics

By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

…nd his love of the narratives and worship style of the black churches. He is also very cheerful; he is not mad at anyone. We just all need to love one another and buy into the administration’s agenda. The law on faith-based hiring will likely assist that effort….

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…lly non-Muslim scholars who broke open the field. I remember the thrill of buying the book Islamic Homosexualities edited by Stephen Murray and Will Roscoe in 1996, when I was a graduate student at Duke University and had recently accepted Islam. It was the first book that addressed the topic, though admittedly it was from an anthropological perspective that showed great naiveté and even ignorance about Islam as a religious tradition. Still, it ex…

Is Sam Harris Really a White Supremacist?, Part Two

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…mericans. At the same time, bigotry comes in many forms. It is possible to buy into racially-tinged narratives of global conflict, and to target specific groups of people, without embracing the kind of white supremacy characteristic of Duke. After a close reading of Harris’ writing, we ended up arriving at a somewhat mixed conclusion. We were very critical of Harris, but we were aware of the connotations of the phrase white supremacy: To be clear,…

The Religious Reason Many Americans Refuse to Wear Masks

By Kate Blanchard

…to the hospital where he was given the best American health care money can buy—a million dollars’ worth by some estimates. Among other “miracle” treatments, the President received remdesivir (an anti-viral medication), dexamethasone (a steroid for inflammation), and Regeneron’s still experimental antibody cocktail (tested, like remdesivir, on cell lines made from aborted fetal tissue—but that’s a story for another time). After a mere three days (l…

Why ‘Respectable’ Evangelicals Can’t Rein in Evangelical Conspiracy Theorists

By Chrissy Stroop

…istianity in your marriage, in your workplace, or in your school.” I don’t buy this distinction, but it is a key premise in French’s argument. When it comes to politics, French maintains that “the theological ‘training’ consists mainly of education about issues and controversies that Christians should be aware of and concerned about.” That is, voting for candidates who are anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ equality, etc. The solution, therefore, is for evan…

Not Even Camping’s Followers Believe End is Nigh

By Lauri Lebo

…are going to leave this world very soon. Not that I think those who don’t buy into this silliness should shy away from having fun. I think the many Judgment Day pub crawls and Rapture parties are terrific. Humor is an invaluable tool for shining a light on crazy. According to this piece by Michael Tracey, even the most devoted of Harold Camping’s followers are having trouble ingesting the blue pill. On a visit to a New Jersey radio station that b…

Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Are ‘Serious Parody,’ Forcing us to Redefine Nuns

By Melissa Wilcox

…is case, I was also aware that many members of the order would be eager to buy the book—despite how sizeable, widespread, long-lived, influential, and intriguing this order is, no academic book has ever been published about them in English (and only one has ever been published at all—in French). Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? I actually don’t like pissing people off. I know some scholars rise to fame that way…

Protocols of the Elders of Mecca: Hints of Anti-Semitic Playbook in Glenn Beck’s Islamophobia

By Haroon Moghul

…you like it on hold, so someone else doesn’t—(fails to suppress laughter)—buy it first? Haroon: Yeah, uh, sure, because it’s for, a, like a friend. Of which I have many. Strand: We’ll need your friend’s name and credit card. Shit. Allegations include: That Islam is not, like Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism or Buddhism, a “great religion,” but a toxic death cult; that Muslims can only be peaceful “moderates” who work to reform their toxic death cu…