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Olympic Ritual and Religion, Hosted by a Religion-less State
When the modern Olympic Games were revived they were imbued with a religious and ritualistic significance. How that will be handled by Communist China remains to be seen.
It is not terrorism which should occupy our attention, so much as the dangerous proliferation of new and indiscriminate weapons...
What do you hope to accomplish, they ask, meeting with “those people”?
The Double Life of the War Criminal
Radovan Karadzic has been hiding in plain sight as a New Age healer...
First you ordain women, then you consecrate them as bishops, and—look!—homosexual clergy want to come out of the closet: RD takes a calm look at the latest quarrel between the long-divorced Anglican Church and the Vatican...
We simply took a page from the Israeli anti-terror playbook (“hit them ten times as hard as they hit you”), and we now live in a world as permanently destabilized as the world most Israelis so grimly inhabit.
The current mess in Iraq provides Obama with an opportunity to demonstrate his knowledge about the conflict and difference between Sunni and Shi'ite...
In heavily Catholic Poland the media fixates on two women who make radically different decisions for their pregnancies. But where's the one who chooses?
Arab is the new German; in this long, long war suspicion is raised against Arab-Americans when Muslims are profiled as potential terrorists...
After a recent statement by Ayman al-Zawahiri on the role of women in Al-Qaeda, that supports single-dimensional notions of extremist Muslims, extremist women talk back...
Letters to the Editors: On Gandhian Nonviolence
Two scholars respond to Shalom Goldman's essay, "Gandhi, His Grandson, Israel, and the Jews."
Linda Smith says she has “spent 10 years of [her] life restoring little girls and young women who have been in the commercial sex industry.” If Smith’s terminology, “restore,” gives you the willies considering the subject matter...
Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews
Gandhi's grandson says that Israel promotes a "culture of violence": Shalom Goldman tells the little-known backstory...
Religion and Other Animals
A praying dog at a Japanese temple, chimpanzees expressing awe at a waterfall: can our animal cousins be religious?
Sacred&Profane: American Martyrdom
America has defined itself through identification of evil enemies and shared grief for heroes who die fighting them...
RDBook: 10 Questions on Global Rebellion
Religious rebellion against the secular state isn’t actually about religion...
Dispatches from the Borderlands: Missing Voices
Many churches have relied on migrant populations—but they are silent on immigration reform...
Are God and Aliens Compatible?
A recent statement by a Vatican astronomer opens a theological can of worms...
The tragicomic Napoleonic Era reveals eerie similarities to the Bush Doctrine...