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Tag: Religion

Lerone A. Martin, Jeanne Theoharis

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

Joshua Abramson Cohen

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

Jeremy Pressman

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

Cornel West, Panashe Chigumadzi

When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.

Louise Melling

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

Rachel Fraser

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

Faisal Devji

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

Michael Bronski
Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as being threats to child welfare. “Don’t Say Gay” laws are the latest in a long history dating back to medieval attacks on Jews.
Bethany Moreton
The mystical connection between white Southern nostalgia, the global family values movement, and Russia.
Mark D. Jordan
Against the philosopher’s dying wish, the final volume of History of Sexuality has now been published. How should we approach it, and what can it teach us about how Christianity shaped the modern self?
Michael Jackson
An anthropologist reflects on West African divination as a case study in hope during times of great uncertainty.
John R. Bowen
Food is becoming a target for anti-Islam politics.
Nadia Marzouki, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
A proposed French bill says so. But, strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as blasphemy within the terms of secular public order.
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
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.
Carlos Fraenkel

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.

Nargol Aran
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.
John Merrick

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

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

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

Daniel Penny, Nicky Nodjoumi
Nicky Nodjoumi is one of Iran’s greatest artists, but his politics have kept him in exile since 1980.
Liz Theoharis
The Trump administration’s sanctions against Iran and cuts to SNAP benefits are two sides of the same war that the rich are waging against the global poor.
Peter Coviello
Two recent books about Mormon women highlight the success of the church in redefining itself as a modern liberal religion. But to become that, the Latter-day Saints dramatically reworked both their theology and history.
James G. Chappel

Capitalism hasn’t disenchanted the world. Like a bad lover, it beguiles us into spiritual desolation.

Udi Greenberg

The political philosophy embraced by Germany’s leading party helped reunite Europe after World War II. Can it guide us safely away from today’s populism—or did it cause it?

Kim Phillips-Fein

Oil’s grip on U.S. society is as much religious as economic.

Ben Goossen
Ingrid Rimland was a pioneering voice of the neo-Nazi Internet. She was also raised Mennonite, a peaceful religion with a long history of celebrating white “ethnic” identity.
James G. Chappel

Martin Hägglund argues that only atheists are truly committed to improving our world. But people of faith and socialists have more in common than he thinks.

Garrett Felber
Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy. 
David R. K. Adler

But it is increasingly difficult to question Israel’s policies without accusations of anti-Semitism.

Sarah Shortall

In the mid-twentieth century, the Church radically changed its position on whether religion is a public or private matter.

M. Hakan Yavuz

In a bid to consolidate power, Erdoğan is reshaping Turkish politics in the image of the Ottoman past.

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Trump v. Hawaii is not about religion. It’s about the president’s unlimited power at the border.
Carlos Fraenkel

The focus on Muslim anti-Semitism obscures the real quandary of multiculturalism in Angela Merkel’s Germany.

Cornel West
Remembering James H. Cone.
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

An experiment in a quintessentially American form of protest.

Georg Diez
Reckoning with Germany’s dangerous legacy.
Richard White

Despite what Steve King says, the U.S. was never a Christian nation.

Jeanne Theoharis, Amna A. Akbar

For too long we have acquiesced to Islamophobic government policies. The cost of our silence is now clear.

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Calling the nations subjected to the ban Muslim is sloppy, misguided, and dangerous.
Aziz Rana, John Bowen

Islamophobia is a shared project of the Democrat and Republican parties, long preceding the rise of white nationalism and Trump.

Ezra Glinter

Alternatives to Zionism, from the Uganda Scheme to Birobidzhan, present a complex history of the search for a Jewish home.

Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

Protest is not merely a matter of personal awakening, but of organizing and mobilizing the power needed to change social relations.

Umar Farooq

Kurds—the largest stateless ethnic group in the world—can be found on all sides of an increasingly complex conflict that stretches across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Ingrid Norton

America continues to be haunted by our need to grieve.

Assaf Sharon, Avishai Margalit

Liberal democracy requires that we banish religion from politics.

Michael Bronski

Suddenly conservatives want us to believe they care about homophobia.

David Sehat

Conservative Christians are out to restore their historical legal privileges.

James G. Chappel

Secularism is fundamental to liberal governance. But is it sustainable?

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