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Russia and the US Have More in Common Than You Might Think

By Chrissy Stroop

…not just in the classroom. My ruble-denominated salary plummeted in value. French cheese slowly disappeared from store shelves as sanctions took effect. But more importantly, friends old and new, people I considered reasonable, shocked me by celebrating what I saw as a flagrant violation of international law, joining in with the nationalistic chorus of ‘Krym nash,’ Russian for ‘Crimea is ours.’ Someone painted a large mural featuring the Russian f…

“Evil,” a Cautionary Tale For Iran

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ebate between the left and the right that goes back at least as far as the French Revolution and its aftermath. How could a good revolution have come to such a bad end? How could the good guys become bad guys? And how could this have happened so quickly? Hegel was the philosopher who offered the most devastating critique of political liberalism on precisely these grounds. He worried that universalizing political appeals grounded in impossibly vagu…

Saudi Activist Manal Al-Sharif Freed from Prison

By Joanna Brooks

…an women used the veil to disguise their identities in their fight against French colonial occupiers. Some women even smuggled bombs underneath their veils. Today, Saudi women use the anonymizing quality of the veil to push back against the extreme anti-feminism that experts say has more to do with Saudi politics than it does Islamic scripture or history. Across Saudi Arabia, women are taking the keys and the cameras and making tracks on the deser…

A Boundary-Busting Memoir of Love, Mental Illness, and Being Muslim in America

By Haroon Moghul

…, takes place another three thousand years after that. All these stories are connected, and go back to the decisions made by these two friends, Mujib and Ali, and the families they found. I take inspiration from Muslim, South Asian, Dutch, Spanish, French and American history to create an entirely new universe. There’s alien Caliphs and medieval monarchies that never end, stretching far into the future, colonizing other worlds and inventing entire…

Just Call Me Marie: When Women Become Priests

By Rosemary Ganley

…women ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood since 2002. Worldwide, the number is 69 and counting. For the official Roman Catholic Church, this grassroots activity of women claiming their “baptismal calling” is a dangerous evil and enormous threat. It has elicited thunderous denunciations, immediate excommunication of the first group, the “Danube Seven” in 2002, and recent stern statements about the “illicit and scandalous attempted ordinations…

Is “Israel-Firster” Anti-Semitic?

By Sarah Posner

…s lurk in many democracies. Ask the Dutch, the British, the Austrians, the French. The Republican Party has flirted with several in this election cycle. But in Israel the threat is especially acute. And the concern comes not only from its most persistent critics. The former Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert have both warned of a descent into apartheid, xenophobia, and isolation. The political corrosion begins, of course, with the occupati…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…march drew tens of thousands – or hundreds of thousands depending on whose numbers you believe – of anti-marriage-equality Catholics and evangelicals to Mexico City, the culmination of weeks of protest organized by the National Front for the Family. Days before, the Supreme Court ruled that adoption by same-sex couples should be considered, like other adoptions, according to the best interest of the child. In preparation for Saturday’s anti-marria…

The Mullet and the Mullahs: Iran’s War on Hair Reveals Ahmadinejad’s Weakness

By Hussein Rashid

…context as well. The spate of anti-Muslim debates in Europe, including the French ban of the burqa, demand Iran respond in a manner that indicates Islamic solidarity. The language of the haircut restrictions centers around “Islamic” and “Western.” It is not coincidental that these events are happening in close temporal proximity to one another. The New York Times emphasizes the “clash of civilizations” myth in this ruling, without really thinking…

Pussy Prophets & Nuns on Buses: Will Feminist Politics Get More Holy & Foolish?

By Beatrice Marovich

…ersial), you can even read about it in Time magazine. From this angle, the French ban on full-face veils looks, itself, like an act of patriarchal oppression. What I think this shows us is that religious practice—contextualized—can become an ally for women who want to resist the state’s political control over their body. It questions any easy assumptions that a feminist politics must adhere to specific rules about the body—rules that are dictated…

Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are “Serious Parody,” Forcing Us to Redefine Nuns

By Melissa Wilcox

…shed 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, but I’ve always thought quite poorly of that approach and wondered why it was necessary. I’d simply like my readers to come away more informed and more intrigued. I became a religious studies scholar because I w…