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Crying Witch: Learning From the O’Donnell “Dabbling” Debacle

By Spencer Dew

…gious self-description. The Christine O’Donnell dolls released by an action-figure company, featuring the stereotypical cape and pointy hat of a Hollywood witch-villain, merely reinforce this point. O’Donnell’s Bad Date Yet if we assume that whoever O’Donnell was “dabbling into witchcraft” with wasn’t any sort of Wiccan, what sort of Satanist might he have been? Diane Vera of “NYC Satanists, Luciferians, Dark Pagans, and LHP Occultists” released a…

Why Pollsters Still Don’t Get Religion

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…wouldn’t do so well, and neither would the atheists and agnostics. I mean questions like: What is the proper way to light candles to welcome the Sabbath? How do I perform ablutions before Salat? What is the correct posture for Zazen? These are things Jews, Muslims, and Zen Buddhists know, because they perform it with their bodies. It is experiential knowledge, and as such difficult to measure. I enjoy Stephen Prothero’s continued work on “religio…

No, It’s Still Yogaphobia

By Andrea R. Jain

…sible as a phobia, but is rather an internally consistent outgrowth of the New Testament’s radical warning that “the desires of the flesh are against the spirit” (Gal 5.17), a passage that has been emphasized in the Catholic Pauline and Augustinian tradition.” To say the warning is a “consistent outgrowth” of a warning against “desires of the flesh,” however, implies that yoga is essentially hedonistic. Yet yoga, even in its most popularized forms…

Young Imam Reality Show, Debating Secularism, and More

By Michael J. Altman

…st used to be. Malaysia is abuzz about the new hit reality series Young Imam. The winner of the show gets a scholarship, a job at a Kuala Lampur mosque, and a free trip to Mecca. On American TV, Fox’s comedy Glee will be adding a Christian character….

Equally Blessed: Wear a Rainbow Ribbon to Mass

By Alex McNeill

…at being an LGBT youth often means struggling with self-acceptance and self-esteem and feeling marginalized and ostracized. These are the much more important issues [than sex] and require a Gospel reaction and response of acceptance. At what levels do you think the conversations will take place, and have you seen it work before? We think conversations will start at the personal level, but we hope they will move towards structural changes. For exam…

Anonymous Utah Group Distributes Vigilante “Illegal Immigrant” Watchlist

By Joanna Brooks

…are Spanish-speaking. Economic downtimes and anti-immigrant outcry go hand-in-hand in American history. And even though Utah has a 7% unemployment rate significantly lower than the national average, anti-immigrant sentiment is running strong in the Beehive State. With a bill modeled on Arizona’s SB 1070 under construction and headed for the legislature, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff recently called for the LDS Church to weigh in on the mat…

The Great Religious Realignment

By Sarah Posner

…s voter education effort included 23 million pieces of mail, 21 million get-out-the-vote calls, 18 million text messages and emails, and 30 million voter guides distributed in 117,000 churches.” Their overblown turnout predictions either simply did not come true—or if they did, the results demonstrate that the “values voters” no longer have the clout to tip elections with their turnout. As I’ve been writing all night, based on initial exit polling…

Postcard from the Vatican

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ed tirelessly against many of the reforms initiated by Vatican II and its “new openness” to the modern world. Looking more closely at this significant amendment of John Paul II’s Motu Proprio, we can catch a trace of this same legacy of papal anti-modernism. The church’s primary focus is and has always been on delicta contra fidem, or crimes against the faith. The decision to add delicta contra mores, crimes against morality, cuts more than one wa…

Is It the Job of Religion Journalists to Define “Religion”?

By Ann Taves

…ed by the research on which he was reporting. Oppenheimer, in reporting on new research at HDS, and Linker in his opinion piece taking Oppenheimer to task, mirror issues that we face as scholars of religion. Linker seems to imply that as a “religion columnist,” Oppenheimer is obligated to define religion. Some argue that as scholars of religion or simply as scholars teaching in departments of religion we have a similar role-specific obligation to…

‘Murder Among the Mormons,’ Latest True Crime Doc From Netflix, Highlights Issues of Faith, Skepticism, and Authenticity

By Benjamin E. Park

…cent intellectual community. A host of Mormon scholars took advantage of a newfound openness from church leadership after an academic was made the Church Historian in 1972, the first non-ecclesiastical leader to hold the position. The church archives granted increasingly generous access to previously restricted documents, which resulted in revisionist, and at times challenging, narratives of the faith’s origins. After 150 years of defending the pa…