When we look at how the media writes about religion, we focus on news stories. But that’s only one of the ways the mainstream media discuss religion, of course. Even apart from the op-ed page — which we tend to stay away from unless there’s some breaking news there — there are photos, graphs, art reviews, advice columns and so on.
Last week, the New York Times reviewed “1001 Inventions,” which highlights Muslim contributions to science. It’s currently at the New York Hall of Science and will be traveling to Los Angeles and Washington. Edward Rothstein wrote a fascinating review that ended up being one of the most judicial discussions of Islam that I’ve seen in that paper. The exhibit is designed to show that the Western Dark Ages were a Golden Age in Islam. He writes that the exhibit has serious problems but that this has had no effect on its international acclaim, having had wildly successful showings in British Cities before being expanded to its current form at the London Science Museum
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