Blessed Are the Merciful: Religion, Power, and Pussy Riot
Last month I wrote about how the Russian Orthodox Church joined forces with the Kremlin in supporting Bashar al-Assad’s regime in the Syrian civil war. The Russian Orthodox Church, I suggested, was...
View ArticleWays of Seeing: On the Role of Images in “Religious” Violence
By A.T. CoatesHaven’t we seen this before? When the so-called “Danish Cartoon Controversy” sparked protests around the world in 2005, American media outlets spoke vaguely and often about how the image...
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