RELIGION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN A GLOBAL WORLD

Increasingly we turn to a familiar AI platform such as ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude for all kinds of things.

This is an excerpt from my review of Richard Beck’s Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life, published in Religious Studies Review.

This is an excerpt from an essay requested from me for a special issue of Oxford University’s St.

When we first moved to Maui about ten years ago to set up our retirement residency for half of each year, I looked for places to get good food.

When I read about Trump’s surrender terms to Iran — billions in reparations, end of sanctions, unfreezing assets, and allowing it to control the Hormuz Strait in the future — I laughed.

Now that a tentative cease fire has been announced bringing the US bombs into Iran to a halt, it is time to ask the logical question.

Now that there is a shaky ceasefire in the US-Israel war on Iran, it is time to tally up the scorecard and assess who won and who lost.

The war in Iran – America and Israel’s assault on the country and its barrage of missile and drone responses – have produced a variety of impacts.

The massive Israel-US attacks on Iran are aimed, according to President Trump, at regime change.

I have written a bunch of books relating to incidents of religion-related terrorism around the world, but the one word I have seldom used is “terrorist.”