"The Bible" and the Commercial Beat
Don Jolly on the History Channel’s sendup of the bible, “The Bible.” Continue Reading →
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Ahbash Rising: Religious Freedom in Ethiopia, Part 2
Protests in Ethiopia could have profound ramifications for Muslim-state relations in Ethiopia and beyond, writes Alex Thurston in the second of two posts on Ethiopia’s Muslims. Continue Reading →
Decibels and Debate: Unifying Egypt’s Call to Prayer
by Maurice Chammah The call to prayer was not just a reminder of religious extremism. For these elite Egyptians, it was religious extremism. Continue Reading →
Decibels and Debate: Unifying Egypt's Call to Prayer
by Maurice Chammah The call to prayer was not just a reminder of religious extremism. For these elite Egyptians, it was religious extremism. Continue Reading →
Religion-Secular, Tangled Divisions
What does it mean to pursue, inhabit, or lead a valuable, ethical life in a secular age? Are we living in a post-secular world? A review of two new essay collections. Continue Reading →
Daily Links: Great Divides Edition
Back from the Great Divide! Welcome to the fall, and a host of stuff you should be reading right now. Continue Reading →
Pashkevil-joy
03 January 2006 Joel Greenberg of The Chicago Tribune, surveys the admonitory posters, or pashkevils, which cover the walls of ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in Jerusalem, warning the haredim against movie-watching, “media of all Continue Reading →
Apologetic Islam
Apologetic Islam 29 November 2004 Natana J. Delong-Bas, Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad(New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). Reviewed by Adam Becker “The face of terror is Continue Reading →
25 August 2004 Daily Links
John Safran versus God: Australian comedian/documentary filmaker John Safran (of streaking through Jerusalem fame) has made a new series in which he: has a fundamentalist Islamic cleric put a fatwa Continue Reading →
9 August 2004 Daily Links
Blogging from Baghdad: “I always love passing by the churches. It gives me a momentary sense that everything must be right in the world to see them standing lovely and Continue Reading →