Inter-caste marriages in India, though legal, are often met with hatred and violence. Emily Wax reports on this clash of…
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It’s beginning to look a lot like conflict
As the Christmas season approaches (or, some might say, lumbers through its three month marathon), a rising level of tension…
Congregants stand by while churches are destroyed
Issues of church and state come into conflict over the decision to landmark religious buildings. Robin Pogrebin reports in the New…
Targeting Jews in India
Among the many questions that arose from the bombings in Mumbai, one remains strangely baffling: why did these terrorists choose,…
Proposition 8: The musical
At Funny or Die, John C. Reilly, Jack Black, Margaret Cho, Neil Patrick Harris, Maya Rudolph, Allison Janney, and a…
Attacking Mormons for rights
Jonah Goldberg writes an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, showing how bigoted attacks on Mormons, that would never be…
Zionism and anti-anti-Semitism
Joel Schalit at Religion Dispatches reviews Violence by philosopher Slavoj Žižek.
The economics of faith
The current recession is affecting all Americans, and religious organizations are no exception. Michael Paulson writes in the Boston Globe…
Is gluttony really a sin? A Thanksgiving query
This Thursday, in the face of a recession and a national political transition, we will all break, take a four…
Buddhism and science
Michael Bond reviews Donald S. Lopez Jr.'s Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed.