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Awakening, Counter-Awakening, and the End of Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e were insurmountable. It’s over these boundaries that we’re going to find new friends and new ways of loving God and new ways of engaging God’s reign in the world. That’s where we’re moving and that is frightening to some people who don’t think they can make those leaps. They don’t see women as fully human. They don’t see their gay and lesbian friends as having a personhood from which they can learn or be friends with. Those boundaries remain inc…

“You’ve Never Met a Muslim”

By Hussein Rashid

…ion. I was in my teens when I found out there was supposed to be animosity between us. In high school, I learned about the split between Shi’as and Sunnis. I asked my parents what we were. They said, “Oh, we’re all the same, it doesn’t matter.” My father’s college roommate was Jewish American so our families celebrated holidays together every year. At 13, I’d heard the prayers so often I’d memorized them. I could have had my own Bat Mitzvah. I rea…

A New Mormon Religion Has Taken QAnon Conspiracies and Canonized Them as Doctrine

By Cristina Rosetti

…ught.” Wait, what? That last one is what initially piqued my interest in a new Mormon religion that took QAnon’s theories and canonized them as doctrine. Scholars of religion took Q by storm (pun intended). Many framed it within the context of white evangelicalism. Others rightfully highlighted the New Age characteristics that many supporters espoused, specifically in terms of vaccine hesitancy. Underlying most perspectives was the prevailing assu…

Looking For Answers at the Oscars: A Guide to This Year’s Contenders

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…n play in new ways. We are left wondering how religious traditions themselves will become more variable as they work, consciously or not, with new media technologies, new formations of family, and new divisions between public and private. Whatever else our variable identities might produce, it is a time of new and potentially reinvigorating “interface” relations….

The Sex Scandal Following Whole Foods’ Guru

By Michael Schulson

…cially ill-equipped to address transgression. David Ingber, the rabbi who knew Gafni back when he was a leader in the Jewish Renewal movement, has started a change.org petition to put pressure on Gafni’s institutional partners. Ingber told me that Gafni has found “safe haven” in the New Age world, though the problem, he said, would apply to any “highly evolved” community. “In black-and-white communities where morality is conventional and right and…

With Release of Pentagon Report, UFO Narrative Belief System is Suddenly Supported by Military Witness Testimonies

By Diana Pasulka

…ork, and new algorithms will make it easier for internet search providers to vet civilian generated UAP reports. The consolidation of knowledge of UAPs to military witness testimonies, and the use of internet algorithms to monitor non-military testimonies represents a new development in this new religiosity of the UAP, what Carl Jung has termed “a new mythology.” For scholars and students of religion, this provides a rich opportunity to examine th…

QAnon Didn’t Just Spring Forth From the Void — It’s the Latest From a Familiar Movement

By Adam Willems

…there? You had pointed out the novelty piece, the idea that this is brand-new, and of course we know new religious movements are never wholly new. Everything builds on something else. But the idea that it, specifically Q, doesn’t fit into a really clear broad political trajectory for the last 40 years is either willfully ignorant, or just damagingly naive about the role that politics has been playing in the United States for at least the last 40…

Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

By Rachel Wagner

…he original game designers provided for the creation of additional levels, new characters, new environments, and scripted events. Some of the most popular platforms for machinima are Second Life, Halo, World of Warcraft, The Sims, and even Grand Theft Auto. Because of its self-reflective and journalistic style, Molotova Alva has been dubbed “the first documentary shot entirely in a virtual online platform.” The Second Life avatar who stars in the…

Abortion’s Not in Kansas Anymore?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…nd acceptable temperature ranges for different parts of the facility. (The new rules state that each procedure room must be kept between 68 and 73 degrees Fahrenheit at all times, and each patient recovery area must be kept between 70 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit at all times. (See section 28-34-134 of the bill, requirements (1) and (2).) By contrast, the Kansas Department of Health licensing survey for other ASCs contains no mention of room tempera…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…to Christianity from the start. * * * The Manga Bible, by Siku. One of the better new forms of this thing called the Bible. *** Envy, or Yiddish in America Jeff Sharlet, a contributing editor for Harper’s and Rolling Stone, is the author of The Family and co-author of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible. He publishes The Revealer at NYU’s Center for Religion and Media. My favorite new book of the year was Peter Manseau’s astonishing novel Songs…