https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to settler colonialism en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/02/06/why-antisemitism-insufficient-and-risky-explanation-hamass-october-7-attack-israel Find all of RD’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, here. — eds Amidst a recent layover, my phone pinged to indicate I’d been “mentioned” on Twitter, which is never a good sign. Right-wing provocateur Andy Ngo had tweeted a… Tue, 06 Feb 2024 02:21:36 EST Shane Burley 727db342-3192-4521-85ec-2e2f245b7ca2 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/12/08/can-white-jews-still-be-white-if-theyre-reviled-white-supremacists Under Trump’s presidency there has been a rise in high profile anti-Jewish incidents. Perhaps because these incidents are often perpetrated by white supremacists who hold denigrating racialized views of Jews, writers have responded by asking whether white Jews in the… Tue, 08 Dec 2020 03:45:31 EST SJ Crasnow 8319b94a-9852-4673-9b6d-021ce55e2ce6 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/07/07/its-catholic-bishops-not-those-who-toppled-junipero-serra-statues-who-have-failed-test Apologies are not enough. As protesters have taken to the streets throughout the world in opposition to anti-Black racism, they’ve also attacked statues symbolizing dominating violence, precisely because so many statues present in city centers represent the continuation of structures… Tue, 07 Jul 2020 01:04:55 EDT Jacqueline M. Hidalgo cf81fe49-5dde-4544-b567-def14386a277 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/11/29/landmark-85-year-old-report-absent-debates-over-missionarys-death It’s not about what we can learn from Chau but what we’ve already learned from our foreign ventures in past. Thu, 29 Nov 2018 01:48:18 EST Amy Fallas 023dde08-5aba-4447-8584-e99e88f71977 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/08/27/colonialism-and-crisis-inside-crisis-catholic-sexual-abuse The emphasis on largely white contexts in national media coverage of Catholic clerical sexual abuse in the United States obscures the ways race and colonialism have structured the crisis in other communities. Mon, 27 Aug 2018 03:48:34 EDT Kathleen Holscher 7f66f987-092c-40fc-b3bb-9b5a242e5c41 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/08/fight-white-supremacy-we-must-resist-essentialism-author-responds-0 This piece is a response to Rumya Putcha’s criticism of the author’s original RD piece, “Fox News Controversy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion.”In February of this year, I wrote on RD that Fox News journalist… Tue, 08 May 2018 01:42:20 EDT Andrea R. Jain 841b18e0-a1eb-48e5-af70-e55d2f5abada https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/08/rd-response-fox-crit-white-supremacy-yoga-engages-victim-blaming-0 This piece is a response to Andrea Jain’s “Fox News Controversy on Yoga Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion.” Read Jain’s subsequent response here . Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the… Tue, 08 May 2018 01:42:16 EDT Rumya Putcha 02863c88-c928-478a-a141-c31f7feaeea5 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/03/19/reconciliation-indigenous-people-comforting-many-canadians-christian-concept-task As in many other parts of the world, Canadian news is often filled with the latest updates on the quasi-criminal actions and clearly racist and sexist pronouncements of US politicians. In the past month, however, Canadians who follow the news… Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:46:14 EDT Pamela Klassen, Joseph Wiebe d88af0d6-ca1c-4650-8d04-0e89264e2c93 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/07/fox-news-controversy-yoga-and-white-supremacy-reveals-problem-yoga-discussion A recent Fox News headline, “Americans who Practice Yoga Contribute to White Supremacy, Michigan State University Professor Claims,” dangled like red meat before its readers, begging them to snap. Which is precisely what happened; the comments section is littered with… Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:49:51 EST Andrea R. Jain da1645d0-2b1e-454a-b533-d36120e231f7 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/05/among-problems-trumps-proposed-ban-who-muslim Islamophobia is trending. Wed, 05 Oct 2016 06:28:39 EDT Michael Schulson d9642f8e-af58-4e47-a9b1-13d4ccb031da https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/18/good-guy-gun-myth On the windy bluffs of Weehawken, New Jersey, overlooking Manhattan, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr regard one another coldly. In awful synchrony, the pair raise their flintlock pistols, each one squinting down the barrel. Two sharp reports, and Hamilton collapses… Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:04:02 EDT Carlos Wilton 032aa329-b153-4dd4-b9f7-a66e59cd5626 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/26/risk-teaching-theology-public-university-response A year ago, the University of California at Berkeley announced that it had been awarded a three-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, totaling $1 million dollars, to support programming at the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion (BCSR)… Thu, 26 May 2016 11:07:56 EDT Martin Kavka 98bf73d2-73fb-4ea1-8c5f-f8094fdc4b54 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/11/fascinating-history-search-lost-white-tribe-sheds-light-construction-race Speaking broadly, white supremacist ideas rest on two premises. One is about power. The other is about nature. The power side we’re all familiar with: the idea that racial categories should define social hierarchies. The nature part is subtler. It… Wed, 11 May 2016 01:38:38 EDT Michael Schulson 13c3f82a-b0bc-45ff-8d97-95dd1b0b2c10 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/26/feminist-critics-wearing-hijab-solidarity-fall-same-old-traps Though Wheaton professor Larycia Hawkins was officially reprimanded for claiming that Muslims and Christian worship the same god, it was Hawkins’ decision to wear a hijab that has inspired women and girls from many backgrounds to follow suit in solidarity… Sat, 26 Dec 2015 04:07:28 EST Mariam Durrani 8a5361b5-b70a-49f6-9b80-ff140cd79a98 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/24/serras-actions-arent-only-reason-lament-his-canonization The only good that I find in a St. Serra is that it could force us all to meditate on the ambivalence that haunts Christianity in this hemisphere. Thu, 24 Sep 2015 05:07:38 EDT Jacqueline M. Hidalgo c22c15a6-4ce8-4344-82fd-5d1fad3dc2d0 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/11/10/international-religious-freedom-agenda-will-only-embolden-isis International religious freedom has become the civilizing discourse of our time. Mon, 10 Nov 2014 03:03:12 EST Elizabeth Shakman Hurd e3c6774e-f23a-4110-86e1-3fcd5f9b86ea https://religiondispatches.org/2014/09/12/new-church-sexual-and-ethnic-diversity-and-drums The third iteration of the National Congregations Study, led by Mark Chaves and Shawna Anderson, was released last week and picked up on by the New York Times yesterday. It’s a fairly large study, looking at 1,331 U.S. congregations from… Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:14:13 EDT S. Brent Rodriguez Plate b47eb60d-eb2e-472c-879f-16cc95767d77 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/22/cyber-colonialism-anonymous-enters-lgbt-fray-uganda In tampering illegally with foreign nations on behalf of LGBT equality, Hacktivists associated with Anonymous have managed to raise the ire of those they’d hoped to help. Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:56:34 EDT Joseph Tolton af77ec6b-4440-498f-b00d-45bb94c5899e https://religiondispatches.org/2012/06/06/sam-harris-says-quran-not-good Now where have we heard that before… Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:47:47 EDT Hussein Rashid d109254b-b1e1-4bdc-a8b7-fbc9d48b1125 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/17/dreaming-beyond-madman-reflections-revolution-libya The tragedy of a dictatorship is that they so eviscerate their countries that, even after they are gone, it’s hard for people to pick up the pieces and move forward. But I am hopeful in seeing the banner of the pre-Qaddafi monarchy rooted in the Sufi orders that led the resistance to colonialism. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:14:28 EDT Haroon Moghul e169135e-ca9e-4df5-8cd8-962348cc13bc https://religiondispatches.org/2011/03/29/gods-and-men-resurrects-martyrdom The idea of martyrdom hasn’t been in very good shape lately. One common usage of it—“I’ll not be made a martyr!”—refers to the prospect of somewhat tragic but mostly useless suffering, perhaps in the service of a delusional cause, religious or otherwise… Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:52:42 EDT Nathan Schneider 2010f625-8fe9-46af-86c1-877b181121ad https://religiondispatches.org/2011/03/07/libyas-religious-leaders-take-surprising-position It’s your duty as a Muslim to rebel. Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:31:08 EST H.A. Hellyer b95deca2-7851-4d76-a56f-14b1c513bea7 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/01/14/yoga-hindu Recent studies of yoga reveal the formative influence of (wait for it) Buddhism, Jainism, Sufism, television, military calisthenics, Swedish gymnastics and the YMCA, as well as of radical Hindu nationalism, upon today’s postural yoga practice. There is no doubt that the Vedas, Upanishads, and folk traditions of India have been formative toward yoga: yoga is almost inseparable from them. Nevertheless to assert that yoga is essentially and primarily a Hindu practice means to ignore millennia of generative influence from other quarters. Worse still, it means to step blindly into a political fight for the heart of India that has simmered for over two hundred years. Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:04:11 EST Roman Palitsky cd9ecc88-6332-466e-b10b-0015cd70a7d7 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/02/05/missionary-imposition-idaho-baptists-charged-kidnapping-33-haitian-children Had the inexperienced Idaho missionaries read so much as Haiti’s Wikipedia page they would have learned that the nation has a history of slavery, colonialism, and missions that warns against attempts to remove Haitian children from their home. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:09:35 EST Anthea Butler edcba07a-6077-484d-8bae-3c7d74c46fea https://religiondispatches.org/2010/01/10/avatar-subversive-reading-bible Many have recognized colonialist themes in Avatar but is there also room for an anti-imperial reading of the bible in its narrative? Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:44:30 EST Kwok Pui-lan b12c51a1-402b-4bca-90ef-ff1f89bc6387