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LDS General Conference in the “Mormon Moment”

By Joanna Brooks

…ernet, cable television, satellite broadcast, and radio—for the Church’s semi-annual General Conference. For Mormons, Conference means listening to a set of sermon-like addresses by Church leaders, not “conferring” in committee and deliberating policy, as is the case for other Protestant denominations. And although Church spokespeople stressed that Conference this year would be a routine affair, attentive Conference observers noticed signs that th…

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…essed by the corporate state system. Many people, relentlessly and methodically flayed alive by the destruction of liberties since the turn of the century, have rebelled. We were looking for authentic genuineness and simplicity and we found them in our punk performances. Passion, openness and naivety are superior to hypocrisy, cunning and a contrived decency that conceals crimes. The state’s leaders stand with saintly expressions in church, but th…

Another Slender Man Attack?

By Joseph Laycock

…der Man, several hardcore fans have informed me that Slender Man is an actual supernatural entity, not an Internet meme. One supernatural explanation is that Slender Man is a “tulpa”—a “living thought form” brought to life by sheer concentration and belief. The term originates in the writings of Alexandra David-Neel and Walter Evans-Wentz, who visited Tibet in the 1920s. As noted by Donald Lopez, these writers were dependent on translators and the…

The Atheist Encounter with Christianity: A Failure to Disbelieve?

By Paul Wallace

…think hold you and your world together. Disbelieving is one of the most vitally important things people can do. Without disbelief there is no growth. To disbelieve is to live. To illustrate, take the average six-year-old child of Christian parents. This child probably thinks of God in highly anthropomorphic ways: God walks through Eden, God’s back turns to Moses, God sits on a throne in heaven, “up there.” Also the stories of scripture (the flood,…

Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

By Michael Schulson

…s to certain furry mammals, we all agree that a specific instant in the temporal flux should be designated as “7:00 a.m.” But unlike the contracts of language, the contract of universal time was invented by groups of people, working toward specific goals. Who wrote the terms of that contract? How, exactly, did humanity go from scattered local times to a global system in the span of a couple generations? That transition is the subject of Vanessa Og…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…my conclusions challenged. In the next decade, we can look forward to a real flowering of studies of sexual orientation and gender identity in an Islamic framework. Do you see the work as having relevance to contemporary struggles in Muslim majority countries? My book was written for Muslims in secular democratic states (the so-called West) who mainly live as a small religious minority. They enjoy access to education and legal rights that allow…

Naked Mormon Women Go Viral, Talk Back

By Holly Welker

…rigued by the way the project managed to strip away the artifice of the corporal. When there aren’t distracting elements like clothing to give context like class for example, you are forced to engage with the actual person—who are they really? MWB gives us the clue of their homes, but even then, I think the viewer is more engaged with discovering the personality of each subject than they would otherwise be. “I would absolutely do it again,” said K…

Facebook’s “No Religion” Policy Hoax

By Gwynne Watkins

…and put enough energy into it to make it look semi-legit—though, as per usual with internet hoaxes, they didn’t spell-check it. So why this particular message? Was it mocked up by an atheist who wants his aunt to stop posting about the rapture? A secular person who wants to make religious people look dumb? A religious person trying to send a message that mainstream culture is still the enemy? Most likely, it was just somebody who wanted to see if…

Things the GOP Won’t Like about Ron Paul

By Julie Ingersoll

…, argues that drug addiction in general should be treated medically not criminally, and favors legalization of medical marijuana. On the all-important social issues, Republican Party primary voters are not going to be happy with Paul. He opposes “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” arguing that gay or straight behavior in the military that is disruptive is grounds for dismissal, but that being gay shouldn’t preclude one from service. He opposes efforts to defi…

What Does Satanism Have to do With QAnon?

By David Frankfurter

…n involving mysterious chanting. In this context, Satanic accusations have also allowed evangelical Christians to engage fully in the horror of and mobilization against a Satanic threat, for Satanism offers the absolute inverse of evangelicalism. The real, pacifist Satanic Temple well understands this symbolism as the inverse of popular evangelical Christianity, and it has appropriated that symbolism with playful irony. But at other moments in his…