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Festival of the Hungry Ghosts

By Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan | October 31, 2011

What to make when it’s your turn to feed a dead grandmother?

Young Lovers

Where’s the Love?

By Meera Subramanian | February 14, 2009

Indian canoodling couples face the wrath of the Sri Ram Sene.

"So what if you can't pin down the exact history of yoga..."

Yoga for Skeptics

By Elizabeth Kadetsky | May 11, 2004

Desperate for enlightenment, Westerners flock to India. But the modern yogis’ link to a mystical ancient lineage may be mere hocus pocus.

The Abayudaya's Moses Synagogue, on Nabugoye Hill outside of Mbale, Uganda. Photo by Jay Sand, (c) 2003 <em>Scattered Among the Nations</em>

Lugandan Psalms

By Blake Lambert | October 24, 2003

The Jews of Uganda get an ‘A’ for effort when it comes to atonement. But is that enough?

A man and his ram blow in the new year.

Blow Your Own Horn

By Micah Gil | July 30, 2003

How do you make a shofar? And more importantly, can a tranny blow one?

Abraham mourning for the death of Sarah (detail), Marc Chagall, 1931-1939

W.W.A.D.

By Jeff Sharlet | June 6, 2003

The new neocons ask: What would Abraham do?