A new issue of the International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage is out. Thea Rae Maggard (GTU): Queering Trans(theo)phobia: A Comparative Analysis between Jodo Shinshu Buddhism and Roman Catholicism on Transgender Issues. Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom (HUJI), Gizem Arikan (Yasar), and Marie Courtemanche (Thiel): Religious Social Identity, Religious Belief, and Anti-Immigration Sentiment. Scott McLemee reviews The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography by Richard H. Davis. Hershey H. Friedman (Brooklyn) and Linda Weiser Friedman (Baruch): Humor in the Torah. Can God lie? Until the Scientific Revolution, God’s power included a licence to deceive — how did science make an honest man of Him? Adam J. Powell (Lenoir-Rhyne): The Ideal: One Possibility for the Future of Religious Identity. From Pew Research Center, a special report on the future of world religions: Why Muslims are rising fastest and the unaffiliated are shrinking as a share of the world’s population. Rick Noack on the world’s least religious countries. 60 years on: Graham Oppy on academic atheist philosophers then and now. Are atheists angrier than everyone else? Nicholas Hune-Brown on the pervasive stereotype of the militant non-believer. First, do no harm: Floris van den Berg on expanding our moral circle beyond religion. Joel Hodge on how Star Wars answers our biggest religious questions. Andy Cush on how one man made himself into an aboriginal god with Wikipedia.
