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10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…n the lotus posture, the team had become celebrated among yoga advocates. This high-profile development served to further universalize yoga, suggesting it’s not just for slight, suburbanite women, but also big burly men. 7. The “Yoga Tax” In Washington D. C., yoga was newly subjected to a tax. Though the tax has been popularly referred to as the “yoga tax,” the Office of Tax and Revenue’s extension actually applies to any health club business, def…

How Sikhs Handle Hate

By Rajdeep Singh and Simran Jeet Singh

…terminated. In response, two Sikhs—Bota Singh and Garja Singh—emerged from hiding, occupied a major highway, and expressed Sikh sovereignty by collecting toll taxes from travelers. Although Bota Singh and Garja Singh were eventually arrested and executed by the state, their legacy is a thriving community of over 25 million Sikhs throughout the world. Just as the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church could not suppress the American Civil R…

Immigration Reform: A Country Divided, Or a Richer Society?

By Cecilia Menjivar

…sh to become productive citizens. Indeed, immigration policy debates often hinge on this fundamental question. Will today’s new immigrants assimilate to US society as did the descendants of Italians, Irish, and Polish? A Country of Two Cultures? Samuel Huntington wrote that the most serious threat to US identity comes from the large and continued influx of immigrants from Latin America, because these immigrants will be unable to replicate the assi…

God is Love: A Desert Prophet’s Message

By Lauri Lebo

…sting tours and providing his testimony for anyone who cares to listen. I think the fact that his message sounds so refreshing illustrates how crazy things have gotten in this country. He opposes war and he makes no judgments on anyone, but he doesn’t really want to talk about that. Rather, he just wants to talk about love. My favorite part of the video is when he tells me that his message is catching on – and that even some of the churches admit…

The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Eric C. Miller

…helves of Christian kitsch and sanctified consumer goods, definitely fits this pattern. White evangelical political behavior is just one of many facets of the modern movement. Certainly, it’s an important facet, with 81% of white evangelicals voting for Trump. But evangelicals also define themselves by what kind of goods they purchase, the music they listen to, the kinds of books and magazines they read, etc. I wanted to capture a little more of t…

Talking Back to a Mormon Elder: Religion versus Reality

By Brent D. Beal

…y thought my question about why the seasons are reversed would make him rethink his position. It didn’t. I’ve discovered that contradictory evidence doesn’t have the effect that I think it should in most cases. If homosexuality is a choice, for example, then it should be more prevalent where it is more socially acceptable, right? It doesn’t appear to be, however. If it’s a choice, then we shouldn’t see it throughout the animal kingdom, right? But…

Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ng frays, when the world reveals itself as far less under his control than his guns and his church and his hate broadcast idols have led him to believe. When an angry man reaches into his bag… Of course this focus on masculinity and violence makes many people uncomfortable; particularly men, and perhaps especially those who aren’t chest-thumping, gun-toting, Christianist, racist extremists. For many women, and others who have a wide range of warm…

Romney Faces Sticky Questions about LDS “Doctrines” on Race

By Joanna Brooks

…usy. Mormonism is, after all, a young religion with an entirely documented history—including some astonishingly speculative 19th-century theology and a variety of provocative statements on race, gender, politics, and everything else made by men who have held high-ranking Church positions. But Mormonism is also a religion completing an aggressive transformation from regional theocracy to global institution. Converts and members of the global church…

‘Late Night With The Devil’ Reflects the Role of Talk Shows in Sensationalizing the Satanic Panic of the 1980s

By Joseph Laycock

…not only The Exorcist, but Michelle Remembers, a 1980 book written by psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his patient-turned-wife Michelle Proby. Although it was thoroughly debunked, descriptions of Michelle’s repressed memories of being tortured in Satanic rituals as a child jump-started a wave of claims about “Satanic Ritual Abuse.” Again, talk shows became a key vector through which Pazder and others disseminated these stories. As tastes shifted…

Turn on the News: Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Faith Doesn’t Matter (But Amy Coney Barrett’s Did)

By Daniel Schultz

…o indicate church affiliation, leadership, or attendance. After an awkward hinge, his piece moves on to consider “both sides,” speaking to a Jackson supporter from the National African American Clergy Network and a detractor from the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center. The premise of Smith’s piece is supremely unhelpful, if you’ll excuse the phrase. For one thing, as Rob Boston points out in his article, there was far more reason to ques…