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Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…l world with adolescence hints at this as a kind of rite of passage—a time betwixt and between childhood and full adult responsibilities. Much like game worlds, it occurs within a space where actions have been stripped of real-world consequences, though from the first, we discover that Zoe has discovered ways to make what happens in this space count: she’s turned to it as a space of religious conversion and political activism. One of the recurring…

Will Hate Crime Laws Redeem Us All?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to divide and conquer. They seek to tear us apart from within, pitting American against American, fomenting violence and civil discord. Even while the religious right was lobbying to keep gays, lesbians, and transgender people from enjoying hate crimes protections, they certainly weren’t lobbying for religion to be removed as a class currently protected by hate crimes laws. You can bet that if anyone yelled anti-Christian slurs while assaulting o…

RDBook: Feminist Theologian Defies the Vatican Agenda

By Rosemary Ganley

…tholic feminist theologian does it with wit and drollery, with courage and freedom, and with the humility that truly great minds practice, without consciously doing so. Reading her is bracing, even exhilarating. I would never have got through the last 40 years of Roman Catholic history with my feminist identity intact and my spirit unembittered without the companionship of her work. On a couple of occasions at women’s meetings on sexual and reprod…

Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens

By The Editors

…her than try to change God’s standards” (1-14-08). 6.) TOP TEN COMPARISONS BETWEEN RELIGION AND DENTISTRY: Between Google ads for “oral sedation” and “dental fear,” blogger Mark Wright writes thoughtfully about many things. On this list he points out, helpfully, that “Both Dentistry and Religion benefit financially from your sins” and reminds us that “In Religion there is the promise of Heaven. In Dentistry there is only Hell.” 7.) BOOKLIST’S TOP…

Lila Rose Targets Planned Parenthood with Lies

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ed more recently, and with particular vitriol, at Busted Halo and Renew America. Short version, to save you the clicking: Dawn Eden (author of The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On) and William Doino Jr. wrote a post criticizing young conservative activists for their adoption of Saul Alinsky’s tactics. The discussion then moved to Renew America, where Dawn Eden first suggested that maybe Lila Rose wasn’t as ba…

Nancy Hardesty, Founding Mother of Biblical Feminist Movement (1941-2011)

By Julie Ingersoll

…en (and a couple of men) in the early 1970s, in the midst of the larger American women’s rights movement. They produced a small stack of books (now a book-case full) that argued for alternative readings of the “difficult passages” in the Bible that had been used to subjugate women in Christianity. And they did so in a style of reading the Bible that was intended to connect with conservative Christians. One of the earliest of those books was All We…

Disaster Theology: Blame and Powerlessness in Japan

By Clark Strand

…hen our resolve to develop an ever better understanding of seismology? You bet. Do these guarantee that, going forward into an age of accelerating climate change and rapidly depleting oil reserves, we won’t take one hit after another to our most deeply-held belief as modern people: that we can do a better job of running the planet than the planet can? No. There is no guarantee whatsoever that we will emerge from this century with our pride of spec…

Church and State in Mexico: A Political Party Wavers on Women’s Rights

By Ruth Samuelson

…ols. The new rules eradicated both those policies and broadened many other freedoms. Salinas de Gortari also reestablished state relations with the Vatican. Feminists’ Reasons for Hope The formation of PRI/Church alliances is largely viewed as a political maneuver, not an ideological transformation. Does that mean the new bonds are tenuous? Mexican liberals sure hope that’s the case, and despite the PRI’s gubernatorial gains in 2009, feminists sti…

Patriotism and Piety—Not For Conservatives Only

By Ira Chernus

…es has a rich heritage of liberal (and even radical) political views being promoted by religious people and congregations. Millions of Americans seek sanctity in their lives, humble themselves before a higher power (however they understand it), and realize that liberal policies will foster a safer, more orderly life for themselves and their community. But “community” here means the entire country: people of every color, every sexual orientation, e…

Another “Hot Text” For the War on Women: Rosemary’s Baby

By Mary Valle

…ers—as well as religion) and author of Satan in America and Monsters in America. Having read Poole’s writings on Rosemary’s Baby, I decided to invite him for a little chat about it. In your book Satan in America, you quote Darryl Jones as saying “Rosemary’s Baby is a film about men controlling women’s bodies.” It seems to me that the satanic stuff blinds a lot of people to what the story is actually about. Maybe. I think that Polanski really playe…