Tag: Religion

Can language describe everything we feel—and should it?

The Pope’s call for gay blessings is not what it seems. 

How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.

Fifty years ago, religion met Marxism in the liberation theology movement. Its message still serves.

Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Lerone A. Martin on the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

Daniel Boyarin makes the seemingly paradoxical proposal that in order to end Zionism, Jewishness should be defined as nationhood.

They might, given growing disaffection with Israel among young American Jews.

When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

Epiphanies can prompt us to view the world differently, a new book contends. But they are no substitute for ethical and political debate.

Far from a metaphysical battle between fanaticism and tolerance, the Rushdie affair exemplifies the marketization of hurt sentiments.

Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as threats to child welfare.

The mystical connection between white Southern nostalgia, the global family values movement, and Russia.

Against the philosopher’s dying wish, the final volume of History of Sexuality has now been published. How should we approach it?

An anthropologist reflects on West African divination as a case study in hope during times of great uncertainty.

Food is becoming a target for anti-Islam politics.

A proposed French bill says so. But, strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as blasphemy within the terms of secular public order.

A recent report neglects to mention how France forced Arab Jews to adopt the European persona of Jew as citizen and see Arabs and Muslims as others.

A new book suggests that modern readers can still follow the path of reason that Spinoza traced to true well-being, but they might not want to.

On Ashura, Shi’a Muslims grieve the Prophet’s grandson. But with Iran crippled by COVID-19 and U.S. sanctions, it was also an occasion this year to mourn the country’s deaths from disease and despair.

Pestilence and plague have often prompted waves of apocalyptic thinking, calling into question the steady march of progress in human history.

Anger’s history—along with the very fact that it has one—can shed light on the hypertrophied emotional climate of today.

The city is running out of graves, and against the backdrop of the Israel–Palestine conflict, burial is often a political matter.

Nicky Nodjoumi is one of Iran’s greatest artists, but his politics have kept him in exile since 1980.