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WikiLeaks’ October Surprise: With “Spirit Dinners,” Conspiracy Goes Mainstream

By Carmen Celestini

…ormance art” and the focus of a 2015 film The Artist is Present. The term “Spirit Cooking” is linked to Abramovic from one of her performance art pieces with artist Jacob Samuel in 1996, which culminated in a cookbook of aphrodisiac recipes. Conspiracy websites and sites such as everipedia have linked Spirit Cooking with a ritual called “Cakes of Light,” from the religion of Thelema, founded by Alistair Crowley, in which honey, oil, menstrual bloo…

The ‘Spiritual Warfare’ Worldview of Trump’s Conspiracy Doctor is Part of a Transnational Movement

By André Gagné

…nal beliefs and practices about the “spirit world”—ancestors, curses, evil spirits, nature spirits, witch familiars, etc.—undergo a translation into the biblical categories of “evil spirits” and “demons.” There is, therefore, continuity and discontinuity in the belief in the “spirit world”; continuity, because the “spirit world” isn’t dismissed; discontinuity, because there’s now no need to fear these “evil forces” which can be defeated with the h…

New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists

By Paul Harvey

…olarship: the career of the Afro-Creole Spiritualist Cercle Harmonique from 1858 to 1877. Religious studies scholar Clark has thoroughly mined the records of the Cercle, kept at the University of New Orleans, and produced one of the most important recent works I have seen in race and religion in American history. By focusing on Afro-Creole Spiritualism in New Orleans, we get an extended, as well as intimate, look at how one very particular group,…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…ut a Lincoln quote at the head of the last section without elaboration. The 16th president, who avoided church attendance as much as possible, exemplifies the Protestant spirit of “figure it out for yourself, talk it out with others, then raise your voice and take a stand.” Freedom of conscience and freedom of action is bound to take people, quite a few people, out of churches and any other assemblies or institutions where such freedom is not acti…

The Sex Scandal Following Whole Foods’ Guru

By Michael Schulson

…m and New Age spirituality appear to enable someone like Gafni to remain a spiritual leader. “One of the great cathedrals of the spirit” I strongly recommend that you read the following paragraph aloud, preferably with a friend who does not serve on the board of a Fortune 500 company: The world of business is becoming one of the great cathedrals of the spirit. Businesses are becoming places in which meaning can be created, in which mutuality begin…

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

By Haroon Moghul

…hout the holy month, which means on Eid you wake up without the go-get ‘em spirit that’d otherwise have you racing to the masjid like speed limits were mere suggestions. Satan’s back. Iftarded: How you feel after you’ve eaten way too much for iftar, the Ramadan breakfast that takes place right after sundown; you start breaking down spiritually, psychologically, and God help us gastrointestinally. This generally happens most severely in the company…

Trans Protections in India and Malta; Death-by-Stoning Law in Brunei; Church-State Divides on Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…code that still criminalizes consensual same-sex conduct, a remnant from an 1860 British Colonial Era law that exists in many constitutions across the Commonwealth countries even today. Malta: Civil Union & Adoption Law, Trans Protections in Constitution This week the parliament of Malta passed, and President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca signed into law, a civil unions bill under which same-sex couples married in another country will be recognized…

Healed of the Sin of Religion: At Church with Sara Miles

By Lisa Webster

…u’re desiring? Part of you might be desiring rules, and a schematic way to manage things. But part of you is desiring more God, has glimpsed more, had an experience of more that it’s trying to recreate. And that’s the job of people who run churches—to try to listen to that desire, and feed it. Every Friday you give away free groceries to anyone who comes—no requirements. You talk about the resistance to simply giving food away. Well, we feed every…

Leave Your Stereotypes at the Door: 10Q on “Keeping it Halal”

By John O'Brien

…ced how much time and energy these boys spent trying to figure out ways to manage what I came to think of as “cultural dilemmas”—How to date and be a good Muslim? How to listen to sometimes profane hip hop music and still be considered pious? How to be an independently-minded American teenager who is also required to perform obligatory religious tasks? How to respond to harassment without playing into stereotypes of Muslims as violent and aggressi…

Raising Children the Right Way

By Jeffrey Feldman

…ed a Master of Science degree from the University of Southern California in 1962. He earned a Ph.D. from U.S.C. in 1967 in Child Development and Research Design. Dr. Dobson served for fourteen years as Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, and simultaneously, for seventeen years on the Attending Staff of Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, in the Division of Medical Genetics. He was…