Peace Prize Fight

October 28, 2004
Peace Prize Fight 28 October 2004 Some critics in Norway and Sweden are angry that the Nobel Peace Prize concert will...

Reformation Redux

October 28, 2004
Reformation Redux 28 October 2004 Diarmaid MacCullough, an Oxford historian who’s one of the preeminent scholars of the Reformation,...

Evacuating Gaza

October 27, 2004
Evacuating Gaza 27 October 2004 Israel’s parliament voted last night to remove Jewish settlements from Palestinian territories for the...

Iraq for Hire

April 29, 2004
Also new today: “Who Killed Pat Tillman?” AP just reported that the U.S. has a new plan for subduing Fallujah — hire...

Religion News from Iraq

April 26, 2004
A daily collage of religion news from the war in Iraq. Also new today on The Revealer: Atrios & the “Liberalish”...

Voodoo Postmortem

March 31, 2004
Revealer associate editor Kathryn Joyce writes: It’s more than an un-PC cliche. “‘Voodoo is part of Haitian politics,'” voodoo priest, Philippe Castera tells Marina Jimenez,...

Hearts, Minds, Mortars

March 30, 2004
In a 2,600 word New York Times report by David Rohde on the American “Hunt… for Hearts and Minds” in Afghanistan, the role of religion...

Which Side Are You On?

March 27, 2004
Fred Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard, leaves little room for doubt in hispaean to an Iraqi Christian pastor on The...

Christ of the Coup

March 22, 2004
The Revealer‘s associate editor, Kathryn Joyce, gives The Wall Street Journal’s op-ed page poor grades in theology and history: “…The Christ of...

Who Was Yassin?

March 22, 2004
Our press tells us the natives are restless, but it does not tell us why. It reports that Sheik Ahmed Yassin‘s...

Instant Religion

March 15, 2004
What’s worse than a communist? An “ultra-communist,” of course. And there’s only one cure for that disease: Jesus. AP’s Melinda Leitsinger reports from...

Holidays in Haiti

March 3, 2004
With John Kerry‘s hair looming large on the newscape, Haiti has been returned to its “place” in the hierarchy of...

The Voodoo Question

March 2, 2004
Most of the mainstream press has covered the violence in Haiti as if just learning about the country for...

Baptism in Iraq

March 2, 2004
More on the Mandaean water worshippers of Iraq, from Megan K. Stack of The Los Angeles Times: “When they want to find God,...

To Be or Not to Be

March 1, 2004
Iraq’s U.S.-appointed Governing Council has agreed on the principle of a federalist constitution, reports Al Jazeera. “Islam will be the official religion of the...

Take 'Em To The River

February 16, 2004
The Baptists in Iraq are getting antsy about the U.S. invasion, but not because the crusade isn’t going according...

Hajj, Tragic & Trivial

February 2, 2004
The dead: “54 Indonesians, 36 Pakistanis, 13 Egyptians, 11 Turks, 11 Indians, 10 Algerians, 10 Bangladeshis, eight Sudanese, seven...

Guinea Pigs

January 26, 2004
Brian Larkin, an anthropologist at Barnard College and a member of the Center for Religion and Media, writes The Revealer with this...

The Joy of Battle

January 14, 2004
“In the sitting room of a flat in Bloomsbury, Geoffrey Kirk introduces himself jovially as the man who is going to...

Cows -- Sacred, Mad, and Bad

January 12, 2004
Religious fascism is a funny thing. Well, not really, but it is peculiar, especially in India, where to be...

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