Before we hear her commanding voice, we feel her power buffeting two bible-carrying pastors who’ve accosted a young woma…
Tag: religion
Hip Hop And Religion
Off the whim, I asked Kwanele Sosibo if he’d be interested in contributing to the series. He swung me this fascinating, …
On the ‘white man’ comment by Israel’s Interior Minister
A muted response in the blogosphere persuaded me to write about Israeli interior minister Eli Yishai’s now not-so-recent…
Nigeria's Prophet
By now you’ve probably watched the (British) Channel 4 TV documentary film about Nigeria’s millionaire preac…
The White Man's Burden
This does not get old. The trailer for the new film “Machine Gun Preacher.”…
Ramadan Kareem
Though it remains to be seen what political, economic and social changes will happen (if any) in the “New Egypt,&#…
Tartan Army
Kathleen Madden, in Artforum, on Zwelethu Mthethwa's 2010 series "The Braves Ones," showing through July 17th at the Vic…
Everyone's an African
Brett Davidson Regional lobby group, the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), has drafted an equal righ…
'The Religion of the Contemporary West'
Regis Debray wrote a critique of ‘Human Rights.’ Here’s a summary of Debray’s argument by Jacob …
THE MAN WILL WEAR THE PANTS
A former graduate student of mine, Will, runs an irreverent blog KABOBFEST on matters pertaining to the Middle East and …