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The ‘White Lie’ Connecting Trump’s Pardon of Arsonists, Immigration Fiasco, and Charlottesville

By Jonathan Russell

…the violence perpetrated against the First Nations peoples of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, in the affective-ideological currents Trump has traded on, functioned as a kind of needed reboot for Whites to know they still can take what they want; which is to say, illegal action isn’t really illegal when it’s part of the fabric of the nation. It’s just a sketch on our history. These simultaneous events also served as a stark reminder that it’s only w…

Burning Man: Fear of an Alternative Pagan Social Order

By John W. Morehead

…. This includes not just those outside the cultural mainstream, but also a number of professionals connected to the social movement called the Cultural Creatives, discussed by Paul Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, which includes “writers, artists, musicians, psychotherapists, environmentalists, feminists, alternative health care providers, and other professionals.” It is when Matthews discusses the spirituality of Burning Man—one that he characterize…

Crucifying the Prairie: An Eco-Theology of Resistance for Good Friday

By Jacob J. Erickson

…d never have expected. The prayer camp led by Native Americans at Standing Rock in southwestern North Dakota formed an intersectional ecojustice-based resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline that sacrifices human lives for the ongoing profitability of oil. So when I travel internationally, and say I’m from North Dakota, I now hear: “Oh, that’s where Standing Rock is. It’s terrible what the energy corporations and the government are doing to…

See Me, Feel Me: Remembering Ken Russell, 1927-2011

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…I deliriously watched Ken Russell’s film Tommy (1975), based on The Who’s rock opera from 1969. I was, and still am, a Who fan, and their 1971 Who’s Next remains one of my desert island discs. And I remember, somewhere in the mid- to late-1970s playing the Tommy pinball game, with an imposing image of the “Pinball Wizard” at the top. In Russell’s film, Elton John played the Pinball Wizard, back when Elton was still cool and weird (and cool becaus…

Huntsman not a Factor in 2012?

By Joanna Brooks

…thing from his past, but I’m gathering that it’s not so salacious. Employing an undocumented worker, perhaps? The fact that he dropped out of high school to join a rock band? His unseemly affection for progressive rock? Is it that he once sat in with REO Speedwagon?…

The (Mostly Catholic) Anti-Abortion Roe v. Wade Schlep

By Mary E. Hunt

…agan, and other participants was not easy. Evangelical Christians put on a rock concert in a nearby park after the march this year. It was advertised by “Rock for Life” with the logo of a fetus playing an electric guitar. They offered some diversity. The problem is that by the time the march was over, most people I saw were either rushing to their buses or too cold and tired to enjoy the outside sounds. The concert looked rather sparsely attended…

Will Mormon-on-Mormon, Hunstman v. Romney Primary Save the GOP from the Religious Right?

By Joanna Brooks

…non-denominational Seacoast megachurch in suburban Charleston. (Seacoast’s rock-and-roll website, with leather jacket-clad pastors and guitar-wielding acolytes, seems right up Huntsman’s sartorial alley.) From the buzz his nascent campaign is gathering, it seems that those who cover politics couldn’t be more relieved by the fascinating prospect of a Huntsman run. What’s not clear is how he will connect with the Republican base, especially the e…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…he Anglophone world)? the underlying thought of treating “Muhammad as punk rocker?” BU: What an ignorant question. Anglophone world? Punk is ten times bigger in Kuala Lampur than it ever will be in the UK, France, or Germany. Or America. No, the reason for forming the Dead Bhuttos, and the rush to put a single online was to show, at least cosmetically, that Pakistan was as capable of putting out punk rock as Turkey, Malaysia, Japan, and Lebanon….

Blessed With a Dark Turn of Mind: Gillian Welch’s Spiritual Strivings

By Paul Harvey

…n They’re gone but not forgotten Round, round wanna go round Wanna see the rock of ages Till my body gives out Gonna read the Gospel pages Other times it’s not as clear, particularly so on more recent recordings, and especially so in The Harrow & the Harvest. Put more simply: whose soul does she want to [e]’lectrify, and who are those six white horses coming after? And what happened in nineteen hundred… and ninety-nine, when she found the angels a…

Including Bono on Glamour’s “Women of the Year” List is Two Steps Backwards

By Sunnivie Brydum

…s work is absolutely important, and worthy of recognition—though the Irish rocker’s philanthropy has also faced a fair amount of scrutiny from those suspicious of the “white savior” complex that his exclusive focus on Africa belies. Bono’s charity, combined with his celebrity, also facilitates a massive amount of access to world leaders—though his advocacy seems to fall short of directly critiquing those (generally white, cisgender men) in power w…