Religion Dispatches
…ade into the background when America comes to terms with the truly sinisterer side of candidate Romney: his career as a job-destroying corporate takeover artist and chop-shop boss, as detailed in Benjamin Wallace-Wells New York Magazine cover story on Romney’s Bain consulting years?…
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…that the state of Georgia was performing. And then, you know, we set up a shop there. It was on my mother’s side of the family. There was evidence [among them] of people who were not the kind of wealthy planter class. But, they still enslaved other people, even as a kind of lower class subsistence farmer. But what I didn’t ever push back on was where did that land come from that was suddenly available in the 1820s and 1830s in a land lottery? And…
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…i towns, or providing service in Arab Israeli villages. Jews are afraid to shop at Arab stores or hire Arab employees. You never know, maybe they support terrorism? For Jewish Israelis, the myriad of reports carefully documenting Israeli apartheid, the Israeli army’s use of human shields, starvation as a weapon of war, and now a plausible genocide violate a basic principle of Jewish life in Israel: namely, that the Israeli Defense Forces are, at t…
Read More…y. The theologian does not know the meaning of tact. The bull in the china shop is her patron saint. Her scholarly discipline, theology, is hotter than Burning Man and louder than her ex-boyfriend’s madras shorts. Hence the resistance from the lovers of the multicultural public, who fear the incursion of such bad passion into the public university. In releasing it from private ownership, Sheehan thinks that the public university can cool it down a…
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…er than was ever before thought possible: they are neurologically ready to shop ’til they drop even at the tender age of three. According to the new study, jointly conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin, “children use brand cues to determine what food products will be exciting or which toys will be the most enjoyable, and values associated with items (like food choices) are formed as young as three y…
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…ssion in very young children that they are part of the school; they set up shop in public school classrooms immediately after the bell rings, so as to appear a seamless part of the school day. And finally, Good News Clubs instructors tell kids attending the clubs to recruit their peers at school. It turns out that Encinitas public elementary schools that sparked the national outcry over yoga stretching are rife with Good News Clubs: all nine publi…
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…s volume The Black Woman: An Anthology (1970), for example, revealed how a number of black women engaged religion to call attention to the gender politics of the Black Arts. With The Black Woman, Bambara, a writer, filmmaker and teacher, helped ensure that the contributions of Black Arts women would not be erased or overlooked. Importantly, as Farah Jasmine Griffin has observed, the book brought into conversation two discourses commonly considered…
Read More…recreation of that source. The performers wear visible earpieces and microphones over their plain cotton dresses so as to stay in sync with the recording. The Shakers too, we find out, though famous for their “shape-note” musical notation, also learn their many complex songs by ear. Members of both groups are perceived to have sacrificed a worldly career for a cause that can’t possibly “pay off” in this life, prompting admiration and scorn from o…
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…and raised concerns that disgruntled witches would flee Romania and set up shop in western EU nations. Andrei Chiliman, mayor of the First District in the capital of Bucharest, called for taxing witches. He also demanded greater resources to prosecute witches with fraud. He remarked, “If money from witchcraft can buy the kind of houses they have, it means witches must owe the State huge amounts of money. All we want to do is recover money and sto…
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…ening and, I think, paralyzing for our public discourse today is the large number of people who cling to beliefs without ever examining them; with no reason or reflection. And so that brings me to ask you: What hope does your experience offer for improving this kind of gridlock of thinking in our society? Well, that’s a good question, and it’s a real issue for our society. It’s something that I talk about a lot when I’m over here in Europe. Americ…
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