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Mauled by an Angel: Why Do Americans Need “God’s Secret Agents”?

By W. Scott Poole

…Christian experience (which, I argue in Satan in America, actually forms a central theme in the American religious experience). Angels, portrayed as warriors fighting beside evangelical Christians, became a hugely popular representation of spiritual life. Billy Graham’s 1975 Angels: God’s Secret Agents increased this fascination with angels, demons, and the possibility of spiritual warfare. Graham insisted that what he viewed as an increased inter…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…year’s fantastic Moon. b) Afterlife: A belief in some sort of afterlife is central to many religions and it may have been pivotal in the origins of religions in the first place. How will this play out on Caprica, where the boundaries between what is alive and what is not are already getting quite blurry? Does it shape monotheism or polytheism in a particular direction? In addition to all this, we have the monomania (as Diane calls it) of Daniel Gr…

Capricology: Week 2: The Soul of a Robot

By Salman Hameed

…g exploration of media and the effects of mediation. I don’t just mean the central representations of artificial consciousness and virtual worlds, but also more mundane forms of media practices which show how information gets recorded and transmitted. This week, for example, we have some throwaway lines about Uncle Sam Adama’s tattoos, which we are told signal to others in his community who he is and what he has done. His “tats” are a kind of info…

Capricology: Week 3: Apotheosis, Anyone?

By Salman Hameed

…______ Sunday, February 7. Fellow Capricologists: What did you make of the centrality of the news to “Reins of the Waterfall,” this week’s episode? On an earlier post, I’d joked about Ron Moore’s nod to newspapers with the debut of The Caprican on the SyFy Web page. But this week’s clips from Cap2 News, the Caprica Tribune, Cubits and Pieces, and Backtalk with Baxter Sarno provided another glimpse at the porous boundary between perception and real…

Catholic Charities Cuts Off Health Insurance To Employees’ Spouses in DC

By Sarah Posner

…ding on Capitol Hill. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), the central player in pressuring the Democratic leadership to include the Stupak amendment in the House health care bill last fall, is frequently portrayed as less insidious than other religious right groups that also supported Stupak, because the USCCB supports health care reform, and those other groups just wanted to kill it altogether. The bishops call for “a truly universal…

Transgender and Christian: Finding Identity

By Jori Lewis

…ty school. As a man, Robinson pastored a Baptist church in a small town in Central Texas. “We were in the kind of place where a pastor’s coming out, it would have been on the front page of the local paper,” she said. Robinson said that those congregants, nice and well-meaning as they were, would not have been comfortable with a transgender pastor. She worried about how the community’s reaction would affect her children. So when she made the decisi…

Islam, Meet Maureen Dowd

By Haroon Moghul

…approximate the Vatican, or the Dalai Lama: Neither hosts nor represents a central Islamic authority.) But there’s more than just a poor series of contrasts, betraying an inability to grasp the fundamental structure of a faith and culture. And that is the idea that because one religion does something one way, other religions should be judged by the same measure; this gumption hints at the kind of flatness which can—as we see in some places in the…

Capricology: A Robot is Being Tortured

By Henry Jenkins

…ome ways, it is a continuation of the tattoos that we’ve discovered are so central to Tauran culture—a set of marks through which we negotiate between our identities and our histories. But we can also see it as the opposite of the tattoos. It looks like Taurans use tats to mark their social identities onto their bodies, while Tamara seems to use the mark to leave a trace of her personal identity upon the physical, external world. But given the way…

Rev. Smith Goes to Washington

By Frederick Clarkson

…isplay religious symbols in my office. A government seat is not a place to promote religion. I have not in this race campaigned in churches and I have declined to answer questions from all religious organizations that publish candidate voter guides. In your last post on the UCC’s national blog before your campaign, you took Fox News provocateur Glenn Beck to task for his claim that churches that advocate for social and economic justice are like Na…

Satire is Religion

By Austin Dacey

…se. In practice, the creators seemed to acquiesce all too easily to Comedy Central’s imposition of black bars and bleeps on their episode. However, Stone and Parker were exercising their freedom of religious conscience, and their supporters and detractors alike—whether they know it or not—are taking a stand on religious questions. Progressives who oppose the publication of Muhammad images like to think that they are demonstrating tolerance and bro…