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...

Open and Closed

December 22, 2003
“Only nine people are in church tonight, and all but two of us have come alone. As we sing...

The Samson Effect

December 18, 2003
To shave or not to shave, that was the question Saddam Hussein‘s captors faced; and the answer, writes The Washington Post‘s Philip...

Guantanamos All Around

December 16, 2003
British novelist Margaret Drabble calls Guantanamo “the Bastille of America,” and the imprisonment without trial of Muslims there one of the...

Hellmouth

December 4, 2003
Just after the war in Bosnia, a priest showed Rose Marie Berger a cross erected on a hillside. One side depicted...

Pictures of Heaven

December 4, 2003
Iranian photographer Hengameh Golestan’s name means, literally, “spectacular rose garden,” a fact she notes in a feature for the Irish...

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