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Rethinking Religion After Latest Holistic Death

By Joseph Laycock

…report confirmed that Lavigne was accidentally “cooked to death” during a class called “Dying in Consciousness.” Participants were wrapped in mud and plastic, covered with blankets, and left immobilized for about nine hours. Cardboard boxes were placed over their heads and they were encouraged to hyperventilate. Lavigne died of hyperthermia when her body was unable to dissipate heat properly. The seminar was held at a spa called Ferme Reine de la…

After Westboro: The Trouble With “Tolerance”

By Cody J. Sanders

…eality. Tolerance allows our unearned privilege (whether racial privilege, class privilege, heterosexist privilege, etc.) to go unquestioned and unchallenged. So beneath the theological surface of the iceberg’s tip—Westboro and the like—we do not find less hateful and violent theological and ideological views, just more subtly expressed ones. Unfortunately, it is the power that does not look like power that is most effective in maintaining circums…

Catholic Church is Lucky it’s Just Same-Sex Marriage

By Marian Ronan

…I began thinking about all this at the first meeting of a feminist theory class I took in a Ph.D. program at Temple University 20 years ago. Students went around the table introducing themselves. Halfway through, a young woman said, “Hi. I’m so and so, and I’m a lesbian.” Then she paused. “Well, I used to be a lesbian,” she added, “but my partner had a sex-change operation, so now I’m not exactly sure what I am.” And that was just the beginning….

History in the Making: Religion, Race and Gender in the Presidential Election

By Peter J. Paris

…reds of thousands of people across all the superficial boundaries of race, class, ethnicity, religion, and gender. When have we seen a politician running for office drawing crowds of 100,000 persons as Obama did in St. Louis over the weekend? Most important, Obama’s campaign has caught the imagination of the nation. He is now within reach of becoming the next president. It seems almost surreal that he should have nearly 3.5 million contributors to…

Op-Ed: Liberal Hatred

By Laurie Patton

…my mother’s lawn for a penny a dandelion. But that summer in Sunday school class we also learned about the ways in which people were deprived of rights, and we collected money to help them. We learned about the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. And we learned about what kinds of things people were doing to change the world. During that summer of 1968 I think I even performed in a play like the one the children of Knoxvill…

At Religion Newswriters Meeting, Obama Campaign Bans TV Cameras [UPDATED]

By Sarah Posner

…use of the president’s stance on economic issues and protecting the middle class. “Faith has been a huge part of my life — I’m a Christian, a very solid Christian,” said Ellwood, 19, who also is on the executive board of College Democrats at OSU and attends the h2o church on campus. “They’re two big parts of my life. It’s intertwined, being a Democrat and being a Christian.” Why would the campaign want to highlight how gosh darn remarkable it is t…

Why David Brooks Doesn’t Get the Outrage Over AIG

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…s typology of number crunching versus psychology. The Washington political class has spent the past week going into made-for-TV hysterics over $165 million in A.I.G. bonuses. We’re in the middle of a multitrillion-dollar crisis, and our political masters—always willing to throw themselves into any issue that is understandable on cable television—have decided to risk destroying the entire bank-rescue plan because of bonuses that account for 0.001 p…

Nostalgia Voters? Not Really. Trump and His Supporters Value This More Than the Past

By Samuel Perry and Andrew Whitehead

…ine, heterosexual, Christian, native born, culturally conservative, middle-class Americans were the unquestioned center of the culture. Trump has worked to restore them to that place of privilege. Consequently, “Keep America Great” isn’t just an empty phrase or trite repackaging of the ubiquitous MAGA slogan. Trump’s supporters believe it. They believe it because the appeal of “MAGA” was never really about returning to some golden age when America…

NYPD Lied About Islamophobic Third Jihad

By Hussein Rashid

…ely shown to over 1300 police officers—or about the size of one graduating class from the police academy—and that Kelly sat for a 90 minute interview expressly for the film. And we’re supposed to believe that police force, in part of it’s counterterrorism training, used a film from a DHS contractor that they didn’t vet, and that they didn’t know who the contractor was. Imagine this scenario: A man walks into a building in NYC. No one knows who he…

A Whiter Shade of Faith: Saturday’s Tax Protests and the Religion of Whiteness

By Peter Laarman

…t it is African American families (many of them new entrants to the middle class) who have taken and will continue to take the worst hits in the Great Recession that continues to unfold. But the thing about a mythos, in this case about an entire worldview shaped by resentment and fear of falling, is that it is not susceptible to being corrected by mere facts. I think it might be helpful to look back at expressions of White Faith from a century ago…