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Twitter of Faith: Microblogging the Divine

By Pauline Hope Cheong

…symbols to spur sharing, replicating, and searching faith-related content online. In line with religiously shaping of previous forms of media innovations, faithful bloggers, or in this case, the “Twitness,” has emerged to shape the blogosphere, creating new faith connections. Twitter asks the simple question: “What are you doing?” Some evangelical Christian groups are harnessing these coincident messaging flows to strengthen their religious commu…

Biden’s New Domestic Terrorism Strategy Addresses Trump’s Omission of White Nationalism, But Fails to Address Targeting of Black and Brown Americans

By Sara Kamali

…ent “that can be identified from open-source information.” The offline and online surveillance of Black and brown communities continues unabated despite the Strategy’s declaration that it respects the “foundational constitutional protection for free speech and association.” Indeed, the history of surveillance in the United States beginning with the establishment of the FBI in 1908 is the chronicle of infringing upon civil liberties and freedom of…

Uncertainty About US Role In LGBT Human Rights Under Trump; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t features a soldier broken up with by his same-sex partner.” The official online version of the video was removed by YouTube after users flagged it on grounds that it violated community guidelines. Cached backups of the episode remain online. The Alliance of Crying for Hope (搶救台灣希望聯盟) blasted the “Rainbow” segment — calling the government “shameful” and “needing medical attention.” “Imagine what kind of island Taiwan would become if the military…

For Some of Us, the Biggest Religious Event of 2016 Was the Gilmore Girls Revival

By Isabel Fattal

…tion news coverage, I worried I wouldn’t have it in me to explore the many online debriefs of the Gilmore Girls revival, but it turns out I felt the opposite. I read a think piece about Paris Geller’s inspiring ambition and an essay by a female journalist who grew up alongside Rory; I lamented the final four words with other disappointed fans. I didn’t engage in the conversation (until writing this piece), but I listened. I needed community, and t…

5 Key Moments From the Year of the ‘Exvangelicals’

By Chrissy Stroop

…ing to inspire more local community formation and to build synergy between online and offline activities. Exvangelicals successfully crowdfunded a roundtable discussion—The Exvangelical Community: Paths, Projects, Prospects—that took place at St. Petersburg College in Clearwater, Florida, on September 8. The panelists were introduced by Blake Chastain, who also recorded the event and released the audio later as a special episode of his podcast, Ex…

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

By Shahjehan Khan

…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. The USA is good to sell obscure Malaysian and Japanese records in, but it’s not a good place to play this kind of music. We’d do much better in South Eastern Asia, which yes, we get a lot of traffic from online. Tons of people from Singap…

Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling

By Michael Schulson

…of their influence offline. You can see this, for example, in the world of online Judaica, where two organizations—Aish HaTorah and, especially, the Chabad Lubavitch movement—have developed enormous, accessible websites offering answers on everything from gefilte fish recipes to evolution. In the context of American Judaism, both organizations are unusual: Chabad is a messianic Hasidic sect; Aish, as I’ve chronicled before, is a right-wing organiz…

Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream

By Annika Brockschmidt

…are typical of fascist cultures.) The proximity of the term “Kali Yuga” in online communities to the far Right has been analyzed by scholars using the example of 4chan. It’s troubling when this ideology is mainstreamed through figures like Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan, who runs a hugely successful podcast on Spotify. For Carlson, the alleged decline of conservative values, and thus the decline of America, can be explained directly by the effemin…

All the Lonely People: Holiday Blues and the Epidemic of Isolation

By Peter Laarman

…t the kind of solidarity that fearful and isolated persons tend to acquire online isn’t likely to be informed and enriched by friendship and shared struggle. Their “solidarity” is more likely to be fueled by exclusivist, even paranoid passions: send the immigrants back, stop Obama’s “socialist” juggernaut, kill faggots, wage Christian war on infidels everywhere. The three scholars who wrote about contagious loneliness did not suggest what might be…

After Orthodox Priest Suspended for ‘Stop the Steal’ Activity, a Renewed Spotlight on the Orthodox Far-Right

By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

…vowed or in spirit. A prominent theme among a majority of far-right actors online, and those I have worked with in person, is the salvific potential of Putin’s new Russia. Those supporting Hodges often consider themselves both based (a term of praise used by the alt-right) and monarchists or tsarists, believing that there is prophetic potential for a new tsar to save the world. The Russian Orthodox Church, with its intimate support from Putin’s Kr…