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Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…ut a Lincoln quote at the head of the last section without elaboration. The 16th president, who avoided church attendance as much as possible, exemplifies the Protestant spirit of “figure it out for yourself, talk it out with others, then raise your voice and take a stand.” Freedom of conscience and freedom of action is bound to take people, quite a few people, out of churches and any other assemblies or institutions where such freedom is not acti…

The ‘Spiritual Warfare’ Worldview of Trump’s Conspiracy Doctor is Part of a Transnational Movement

By André Gagné

…nal beliefs and practices about the “spirit world”—ancestors, curses, evil spirits, nature spirits, witch familiars, etc.—undergo a translation into the biblical categories of “evil spirits” and “demons.” There is, therefore, continuity and discontinuity in the belief in the “spirit world”; continuity, because the “spirit world” isn’t dismissed; discontinuity, because there’s now no need to fear these “evil forces” which can be defeated with the h…

New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists

By Paul Harvey

…olarship: the career of the Afro-Creole Spiritualist Cercle Harmonique from 1858 to 1877. Religious studies scholar Clark has thoroughly mined the records of the Cercle, kept at the University of New Orleans, and produced one of the most important recent works I have seen in race and religion in American history. By focusing on Afro-Creole Spiritualism in New Orleans, we get an extended, as well as intimate, look at how one very particular group,…

WikiLeaks’ October Surprise: With “Spirit Dinners,” Conspiracy Goes Mainstream

By Carmen Celestini

…ormance art” and the focus of a 2015 film The Artist is Present. The term “Spirit Cooking” is linked to Abramovic from one of her performance art pieces with artist Jacob Samuel in 1996, which culminated in a cookbook of aphrodisiac recipes. Conspiracy websites and sites such as everipedia have linked Spirit Cooking with a ritual called “Cakes of Light,” from the religion of Thelema, founded by Alistair Crowley, in which honey, oil, menstrual bloo…

The Pope, The Chef & Krampus: Merry Yikesmas!

By Peter Manseau

…hat he’d hoped to air is a bit of mischief that would have elevated the No Reservations holiday special from simply very good to subversive classic. In homage to the stop-action ghost of Christmas specials past, Bourdain made his own Krampus Carol, complete with a horned demon licking the faces of children before he beats them with a stick: It really is a hoot, especially if you grew up, as I did, on the Island of Misfit Toys. But more than that,…

Pope Francis Dithering About Women, Skittish About Cops

By Mary E. Hunt

…ost other Christian denominations have done with good results. My own deep reservations about the women’s diaconate come from its very nature as a recipe for a woman’s job in a patriarchal culture. Surely it shores up the current system to have women handling all of the everyday work—visiting the sick, caring for children, helping the abused, teaching religious education, which they do already—so that the men can get on with the preaching, teachin…

‘A Slice of Heaven’: Lakota Look to Buy Back Stolen Sacred Lands

By Johnny P. Flynn

…nd signed by at least three-fourths of all the adult male Indians” (Article 12), the Act of 1877 was not a treaty but simply an Act of Congress illegally abrogating the promises made nine years earlier. The various bands of the Lakota have fought the theft of the Black Hills since they were run out by miners and soldiers of the US Army. Finally in the 1920s, a case was filed with the Indian Court of Claims, but it wasn’t until 1980 that the Supre…

The Battle for the Bible Against Christian Nationalism Seeks to Continue Historic Campaign

By Frederick Clarkson

…non-violent civil disobedience against the British Empire. We all live on reservations Toward the end of the evening, the panelists sought to transcend the ways that race has been used to divide people against one another, and to recognize and grapple with our often multiple racial identities. Rev. Barber noted that he’s White, Tuscarora (a Native American tribe) and African American, and has had to “recover from some deep hatred” from the time t…

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

By Haroon Moghul

…hout the holy month, which means on Eid you wake up without the go-get ‘em spirit that’d otherwise have you racing to the masjid like speed limits were mere suggestions. Satan’s back. Iftarded: How you feel after you’ve eaten way too much for iftar, the Ramadan breakfast that takes place right after sundown; you start breaking down spiritually, psychologically, and God help us gastrointestinally. This generally happens most severely in the company…

The Sex Scandal Following Whole Foods’ Guru

By Michael Schulson

…m and New Age spirituality appear to enable someone like Gafni to remain a spiritual leader. “One of the great cathedrals of the spirit” I strongly recommend that you read the following paragraph aloud, preferably with a friend who does not serve on the board of a Fortune 500 company: The world of business is becoming one of the great cathedrals of the spirit. Businesses are becoming places in which meaning can be created, in which mutuality begin…