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Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…ers, lawyers and emergency room physicians. They staff what Burners have dubbed “the default world” and keep it running, even though they come to the desert to escape it. Desert Pilgrimage The main road to the Black Rock Desert is a seemingly endless two-lane highway running north from Interstate 80 just east of Reno and through the Pyramid Lake Reservation. Pilgrims to Burning Man must navigate hordes of other attendees in beat-up campers, renova…

Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

By Mark Dery

…power has gone out from me.” —Luke, 8:42-46 ● A teenage girl is crying, sobbing inconsolably, her face a tear-streaked mask of sweet anguish. She’s English, dressed in schoolboy drag: a white dress shirt and blazer, topped off with the regulation necktie. Pinned to her jacket is a photo button of David Bowie in character as Ziggy Stardust. She exhibits all the emotional stigmata of Ziggymania, a hormonally fueled religious hysteria that convulsed…

Burning Man: Fear of an Alternative Pagan Social Order

By John W. Morehead

…y by Phil Wyman, the gathering in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert is considered by many to be a deviant event, and a harbinger of spiritual and societal decay. I was reminded of this in May when I received a call from Steve Matthews, a “cult and new religious movement expert and investigative journalist” with The Worldview Center, who was in the process of writing an essay for the Spiritual Counterfeits Project, an evangelical “counter-cult apologetic”…

John McCain: No God But Country

By Kathryn Lofton

…us acts, it is worth noting that there is no test, no catechism, and no shibboleth (as much as the voting public may, for whatever reason, desire one) that will prove religious identity or personal commitment to a specific God. People say and do a lot of things they don’t actually mean. Trying to know what people actually do believe, or what they actually do mean, requires psychic skill far beyond the purview of most refereed journals, most tenure…

No God but Country: The Religion of John McCain Has Something Important to Tell Us

By Kathryn Lofton

…us acts, it is worth noting that there is no test, no catechism, and no shibboleth (as much as the voting public may, for whatever reason, desire one) that will prove religious identity or personal commitment to a specific God. People say and do a lot of things they don’t actually mean. Trying to know what people actually do believe, or what they actually do mean, requires psychic skill far beyond the purview of most refereed journals, most tenure…

‘Slender Man’ Murder Attempt Wasn’t Media or Madness

By Joseph Laycock

…ulation about a bizarre attempted murder in which two 12-year-old girls stabbed their classmate as an offering to “Slender Man”—a supernatural entity created for the website Something Awful in 2009. The story has made international news. But how did an Internet meme manifest into actual violence? Criminologists and psychologists, as well as Christian demonologists and a retired FBI agent have all weighed in. The genesis of the crime appears not to…

“I Had No Intention to Write Atheistically”: Darwin, God, and the 2500-Year History of the Debate

By Edward J. Larson

…alism into his progressivist philosophy of social development, which was dubbed Social Darwinism by its critics. Haeckel carried these ideas to the German-speaking world, with translated editions of his most popular books returning back to Britain to reinforce Social Darwinism in its homeland. As social theorists, Spencer, Haeckel, and Darwin became inexorably linked in the public mind during the late nineteenth century. Spencer’s many followers,…

The Man of Science vs. The Man of Faith: Richard Dawkins Spars with Stephen Colbert

By Byron R. McCane and Dan Mathewson

…drinking, hard-living rebel, Ken Ham enacts a powerful cultural trope: the Bible believing man of faith, who defends God’s Word against its godless, secular humanist assailants. In this role he presents arguments that look, on the surface, like real arguments, and he presents them to his audience as the forceful blows of logic that strike his opponents down. Upon closer examination, however, they are empty and fake, just like the fake punches, kic…

COVID-Denying Father Sergei is Just the Latest Example of the Russian Orthodox Church’s ‘Holy Man’ Problem

By Katherine Kelaidis

…o make life difficult for those of us who aren’t one of the now-displaced abbesses, it’s a problem that we would all do well to keep our eyes on. Because even Vladimir Putin has his own renegade holy man. The spiritual father knows best The trouble arises from what’s actually one of the more humane and helpful customs of Orthodox Christianity: the spiritual father. (There are technically spiritual mothers as well, but the exclusion of women from t…

Talking Prop. 8: Of Rites and Rights

By Peter Laarman

…the pro-8 leaders, it goes without saying. They are left stammering and gibbering in much the same way that family values champion David Blankenhorn was left stammering and gibbering at the trial, as the judge systematically demolished his “findings” about the superiority of opposite-sex parents. What I mainly take away from the ruling is how little understanding of Constitutional government there actually is among today’s religious and social co…