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Satanic Temple Attorney Discusses Cancelled Scottsdale Prayer Invite

By Joseph Laycock

…cuit encompasses most of the West coast and is the largest region and includes Arizona. In effect, this case could potentially make precedent and guide future municipalities as to what is legal. Scottsdale’s city council voted unanimously to spend $130,000 of the tax-payer’s money to litigate this case. Can you talk about how TST raised money for this case? We sell T-shirts. What ultimately does TST hope to achieve by demanding a right to prayer i…

Occupy’s Sacred Mob and the Politics of Vagrancy

By Vincent Gonzalez

…rhaps like those facilitated by capitalist globalization and ubiquitous social media) will produce a social “climate” through which only new forms of organic solidarity will survive. Furthermore, what the College did, drawing from biblical and ethnographic data on tribal priesthoods, was to theorize those nodes of human interaction that are marked by an ambivalent mix of purity and impurity. In these they identified “the sacred.” It is a vision of…

There’s no Legal Reason for Churches to Receive Quarantine Exceptions

By Chrissy Stroop

…country in which far too many Christians prefer to address mental health via demonology rather than modern psychology and psychiatry. A country in which I experienced the heartbreak not only of watching a family friend die slowly of cancer, but also of seeing the friend’s family devastated at not receiving the miraculous healing they declared would certainly come. We should thus be unsurprised that radical charismatic Protestants are among the mo…

COVID-Denying Father Sergei is Just the Latest Example of the Russian Orthodox Church’s ‘Holy Man’ Problem

By Katherine Kelaidis

…The Church’s other monastics, however, are a different story. In the Egyptian desert, on the Aegean peninsula* of Mt. Athos, and the far reaches of Russia’s vast steppe, the Orthodox monastic tradition is ancient, acestic, and—perhaps most importantly—autonomous. While technically under the authority of local bishops, the reality is that Orthodoxy’s monastic communities have operated in parallel independence to parish life, developing their own c…

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…m the Evenki word šamán, and it has travelled far from its Indigenous Siberian roots. Religion scholar Mircea Eliade helped create the concept of ‘shamanism’ as a universal, ancient religion that was the root of all other religions in an evolutionary schema. The term was taken up by anthropologist-turned-practitioner figures such as Michael Harner and Carlos Castaneda, who helped create what’s now known as core shamanism, neo-shamanism, or contemp…

What Does It Take to Fell a White Nationalist? (Hint: Pedophilia)

By Anita Little

…xample of the online abuse that women—especially women of color—face on social media, and resulted in Twitter permanently banning Yiannopoulos from the platform. At the time I saw him as just another knuckle-dragging internet troll that could just be ignored into irrelevance. But then something terrifying happened. The trolls left their bridges and set up camp at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Poisonous philosophies that had been rightfully relegated t…

As Court Prepares to Rule on Sacred Apache Site, Religious Freedom Faces an American Right Prized Above All Others

By Dana Lloyd

…cision by saying that, since the Apache only recently revived their ceremonial use of Oak Flat, destroying it does not pose a substantial burden on their free exercise of religion. While scholars argue that this justification is factually wrong, reading this case through the theoretical lens of settler colonialism adds a layer of cruel irony to the court’s justification. If Apache ceremonial life in the area had until recently been suppressed, pre…

What To Do About Southern Baptist President’s Call for End to Hate for LGBT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…majority of the religious right have no intention of following suit, especially those organizations whose financial lifeblood depends upon using the LGBT community as the bogeyman in their fundraising. But, it could be an important first step down a long road to reconciliation. But, if by some miracle – or movement of the Spirit – anti-LGBT religious people will embrace Wright’s idea – and stop the hate, the harsh words and distortions about LGBT…

Israeli Forest Fire as Divine Punishment, Religious Leaders (From Both Sides) Agree

By Ira Chernus

…inners, but they disagree profoundly on the nature of the sin. The Palestinian politician finds the sin squarely in the realm of his enemy’s political behavior. The Israeli rabbi finds it in his own people’s religious behavior. Nevertheless, Ovadia Yosef is among the most powerful political leaders in Israel. In fact an Israeli columnist recently labeled him “Israel’s No. 1 Politician… a religious dictator who divides the world into good guys and…

Religious Right Dream of Privatized Public Education Gets Boost

By Julie Ingersoll

…y confrontational style, “There’s no staying neutral. You have to choose sides.” Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is proposing education reforms based on the Florida model that includes public-private partnerships for charter schools, in which businesses would help fund on-site charter schools. The funding business would have a significant voice on the governing board and reserve half of the seats in the classrooms for children of employees. Thes…