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Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…tar and offer them glimpses of another world: a promised world, a despised world, or a world in which life consists of myriad choices between one scenario or another. One of film’s functions is to create alternative worlds and invite its viewers to partake in its audio-visual delights. We experience these worlds through the screen and speakers, before returning—enriched, depressed, enlivened, transformed—to mundane life. Film productions take the…

Could Orthodoxy Be Having its Vatican II Moment?

By Chrissy Stroop

…e condition of Orthodox Christians who had emigrated and immigrated to the New World and who found themselves in pluralistic societies. For example, the early meetings considered ways to reconcile the calendar of the Church with the newly adopted secular calendar. Likewise, they considered ways to adapt fasting regulations, originally developed in a Mediterranean context, to the new locales in which Orthodox Christians found themselves. Also, the…

A Resurgence of “Ex-Gay Therapy” Under Trump/Pence? ABC News Report Offers a Platform to Hate Group Rep. Peter Sprigg

By Sunnivie Brydum

…t to two of them. Carl Charles, a gay trans man and practicing attorney in New York City who spent nearly a year in church-based conversion therapy at age 15, stressed the lasting impact the treatment had on his relationships with his family, his community, and himself. He recalled that the process worsened his severe depression and fed an unhealthy amount of rage; he punched holes through the walls of his home, and often took a baseball bat to th…

Spiritualism and Sex Meet Evangelical Censorship, 19th-Century-Style

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…America’s most powerful evangelical censor, Anthony Comstock, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. The showdown between Craddock and Comstock had an almost epic quality, and I wanted to see if I could capture the tragic force of that drama, while remaining utterly dedicated to the highest standards of scholarly evidence and research. What is the most important take-home message for readers? In earlier incarnations of the manu…

Trump’s Yiddish Trash Talk Launches the Great ‘Schlong’ Debate of 2015

By Peter Manseau

…st conspicuously in the Hasidic community, which means that once a year in New York there is quite a lot of shlogging going on. Just three months ago, a court battle in the city failed to end the practice in Brooklyn. Thousands of chickens were shlogged that day. If pressed on his use of words, Trump may yet claim to have seen video. As a native New Yorker, Trump is likely more aware of this ritual, and has probably heard more Yiddish, than many A…

Sikh Prof. Prabhjot Singh Was Not The ‘Victim’ of a Hate Crime

By Simran Jeet Singh

…Mani Singh to the positive responses following the apparent hate crime in New York City. Let us try to put ourselves in the shoes of Dr. Prabhjot Singh rather than try to make his story fit into our idea of how he should feel. We will not be able to authentically understand how and why Prabhjot has responded to the assault until we abandon the victimization narrative and embrace a framework drawing from Sikh traditions that more authentically ref…

Growing Up Cult: A Memoir of Life with Sri Chinmoy

By Brittany Shoot

…in the inner circle of Sri Chinmoy, a popular Bengali teacher who came to New York City in the ’60s and developed a strong following. Her parents conceived her in violation of the community’s celibacy rules, but the guru, rather than rejecting her, dubbed her “Chosen One” and she became a cherished favorite. Chinmoy, an orphan, had himself grown up in a religious community, the ashram of Sri Aurobindo. The religious life he required of his follow…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…ic school system. Meanwhile, earlier this year, conservative activist Alex Newman told the NAR-aligned Truth & Liberty Coalition that public schools are teaching a “wicked religion from the pit of hell.” Newman, whose nonprofit recently held its annual fundraiser at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, told a crowd at the NAR-influenced Turning Point USA‘s Educators Summit that “Satan wants your kids” and that children in public schools are under spiritual…

Jesus, Muslims, Mormons. And Missouri.

By Haroon Moghul

…ing from his more recent statements. Most recently, speaking on the Muslim world, we had Romney describe an abstracted “world of Islam,” which suggests that for him Islam is something like a theme park gone horribly wrong. What Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan say on these matters is of interest, if only because our relationships with the Muslim world matter, though perhaps not as much as our relationships to our fellow Americans—those we include, or ex…

Amid Growing Legitimacy Challenges from its Right and Left, Vatican Seizes Control of the Supernatural — to Prevent ‘Abuses’

By Emma Cieslik

…phenomenon one of six outcomes along a spectrum, ranging, according to the New York Times “from outright rejection to more nuanced reasonings” (declaring, in other words, whether or not a Catholic is permitted to devote themselves to it or whether it challenges or contradicts the Roman Catholic faith). Those promoting the validity of a rejected event could face penalties from the Church. Of course, this isn’t the first time the Church has pulled r…