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Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…ary which is highly suggestive, but doesn’t get to the center of the cultural importance of the internet. No one will confuse this documentary with the work of a sociologist like Sherry Turkle, but with Lo and Behold Herzog has given us a good start at thinking about how the net is pushing us to rethink our values and morals and transforming the invisible assumptions that shape the way we live and experience the world. And Herzog sees the relation…

Was Islam Responsible for the Boston Bombings, or Was “Internet Islam”?

By Ivan Strenski

…me essentialized notion of Islam to which Mark Juergensmeyer makes rhetorical appeal. It’s just that in the case of Islamophobes, Islam is essentially bad. Here, left and right, as is often is the case, mirror each other. I want to put in another perspective. First, the title of “Islam” is up for grabs, at least in the Sunni world. And, what we are witnessing today are the skirmishes, back-stabbings, cavalry attacks and such of a worldwide struggl…

Mourning Jenni Rivera: “When a Lady Dies”

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…ing in Public Tomen tequila y cerveza que toquen fuerte las bandas suelten por mi mariposas apláudanme con sus palmas por que así es como celebran cuando se muere una dama (From Rivera’s “Cuando Muera una Mujer”) As Octavio Paz famously wrote in his monumental work on Mexican consciousness, The Labyrinth of Solitude, “A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.” With the public outpourings of remembrance, the candles in the streets, and…

Trump Admin Grant to ‘Hookers for Jesus’ Ignites Twitter Firestorm Over Taxpayer Funded Religious Coercion

By Chrissy Stroop

…Catholic Charities in Palm Beach has participated in past Democratic National Committees as a delegate or standing committee member. Meanwhile, Hookers for Jesus and the Lincoln Tubman Foundation have right-wing Christian bona fides in spades. The latter’s founder is the daughter of a 2016 primary election Trump delegate. But what blew up into one of Twitter’s top trends Monday night was the offensively named Hookers for Jesus, founded by born-aga…

Religious Right Historian: Net Neutrality is “Unbiblical Socialism”

By Julie Ingersoll

…y regulation. As Congressman Barton tries to explain Net Neutrality he reveals important aspects of how these folks understand freedom in entirely economic terms: JB: [Net Neutrality means we] cannot regulate the internet, it should be open and free. Democrats’ definition of Net Neutrality is we want to give FCC the authority to tell people who actually provide the internet [again, they don’t provide the internet, only access to it] what they can…

The Internet is Not Killing Organized Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…wn, unaided by new social media. Beck’s argument, briefly, was that the banal social interaction that once filled post-worship coffee hours had been absorbed by day-to-day Facebook interactions. I suggested back then, among other things, that if swapping Jell-O recipes and catching up on local gossip was the main draw of Christian churches and other religions, the smoking gun was hardly digital. Recently, Valerie Tarico updated the theory over at…

Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…as I headed to the backyard with a cup of coffee and Il Papa’s latest digital missive. “New Forms of Shared Awareness” I couldn’t possibly have expected the day to offer much more than a thumbs up from one of leading thinkers and activists on education, spirituality, and social change. But it turned out that the Pope seems to have cribbed much of my commentary on his 2010 letter on digital social media. Whereas that letter focused on the special r…

The Internet Is Not Killing Religion, Religion is Killing Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s, online social networking sites—have begun to reconfigure and redistribute benefits traditionally correlated with (but not necessarily caused by) religion and to mitigate its associated harms (even if also accruing harms of its own). No—alas, I must say it again—the internet is not killing religion. But it does seem to more and more people that, cries of its own victimization notwithstanding, religion has killed off more than its share of pipers…

‘Hello, Trump Warriors!’ Little-Known Preachers and Rabble Rousers are the Unregulated Id of the Felon’s First Rally

By Jeff Sharlet

…ntences with a kind of chortle, earnest and sneering at the same time. She flashes her bright white teeth. She knows how to let her hair catch a breeze; squint from a distance, and she’s a ’70s album cover, Marjorie Taylor Greene Comes Alive! These are not oratorical feats, but they are secrets of her success—which, as much as it boggles the non-MAGA portion of humanity, is significant. Is massive. The political press charts her waxing and waning…

Mormon “Martin Luther” Causes Stir by Uploading LDS Church Handbook of Instructions to Internet

By Joanna Brooks

…special sort of status in the community. (In Mormonism, the demands of lay ministerial service do convey certain privileges as well.) So imagine how LDS web crawlers felt last week when we found ourselves staring at a blog published by a self-described Mormon “Martin Luther” who had scanned the entire CHI into two giant PDF files and put them on the internet. For just anyone. For free. A few hours later, a fully-searchable edition of the CHI start…