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Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ion that got Sverdlov into trouble—it was his sideline as a journalist for online religious publications. While most of his articles were uncontroversial descriptions of church life, a few were more overtly political, including stories about fraud during Russia’s 2011 parliamentary elections. The breaking point came in 2012 after members of the Russian punk collective Pussy Riot carried out their infamous performance of “Punk Prayer – Mother of Go…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…in a gruesome car crash. When photos of the young woman’s body were posted online the family found they had no way to take the horrific images down. The somber family, interviewed together in their home, were clearly traumatized by the experience. The mother finally has this to say: I have always believed that the internet is a manifestation of the Antichrist… or evil itself… It is the spirit of evil. I feel like it’s running through everybody on…

New Reports Reveal Global Persecution of Nonbelievers

By Austin Dacey

…hts. And it’s important to note that the suppression of religious dissent online is being carried out not just by government authorities but also by private corporations. During the Innocence riots, for instance, Google restricted YouTube access to the video in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Libya, and Egypt despite the fact that its content does not violate YouTube’s hate speech policy, which recognizes hate speech against individuals but not the (…

Virgins and Vampire Worship: The Religion of Twilight

By Linda Kay Klein

…They “Twi-bond,” supporting one another in times of need (TwilightMoms, an online group of moms who read Twilight, ritually send one another cards and gifts when others in their lives forget to), and they study “Cullenism,” the value system of the Cullens, Edward’s vampire family. Though the Twi-hard fan movement might not seem worthy of a book-length study, it is part of a widespread American trend away from organized religion and toward the sacr…

If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…s to implement the anti-racist education desperately needed to counter the online indoctrination of white nationalists that the Buffalo shooter and so many others have found compelling in the absence of counternarratives. The neglectful reporting on the mainstreaming of white nationalist and white supremacist narratives is part of a larger media failure. A misunderstood sense of “neutrality” or “balance” has led many journalists to quote Republica…

Google Data Reveal Poor Have An Interest Above “Dark” Religion

By Peter Laarman

…d in the Southeast and the rotted-out portions of the Midwest, do a lot of online searching about God, the Antichrist, Heaven, Hell, the Rapture, and the Bible. But what Leonhardt and other commentators who are swooning over the soi-disant “apocalyptic” religion of the strugglers fail to mention is that poor peoples’ web searches related to physical distress and disease are even more frequent than those of the heaven/hell sort. Leave Jesus out of…

The Man Who Hoarded 17,000 Bottles of Sanitizer Did Nothing Wrong ― And That’s the Problem

By Daniel Schultz

…prices, bought in bulk, and made arrangements to distribute his product to customers willing to pay a premium. If you don’t approve of this strategy, you should perhaps put down your morning cup of coffee, because it’s exactly the traditional and very legal process that put the beans in your mug. (Fair trade coffee doesn’t do much to help, either.) As for the logic of capitalism, follow the language used to describe Colvin’s activities: people lik…

The Next Generation of the Pro-Life Movement

By Bill Berkowitz

…ps, engaging and activating your peers in their hometowns.” • “Media: From online resources to traditional print, television, and radio, utilizing the power of the media to consistently present the message of life to the American people.” • “Sidewalk Counseling: Because the sidewalk in front of an abortion clinic is the last line of defense for a pre-born child and his mother, experienced sidewalk counselors will equip you to lovingly reach out to…

Conservative Christian Teenagers Prepare for Politics

By Robert Kunzman

…er Judeo-Christian foundations.” The Generation Joshua experience combines online components with periodic opportunities for face-to-face interaction and real-world political engagement. The online elements of the program include civics coursework, adult-moderated “chats” about current events, and thousands of bulletin-board forums where students can post entries on topics ranging from immigration reform and international relations to popular movi…

Let’s Get Lost: Mapping Religion in the 21st Century

By Spencer Dew

…n map is the American Religious Sounds Project, a map, digital archive and online museum. A collaborative project of Ohio State and Michigan State Universities, the project emerges from an earlier pilot study, the Religious Soundmap Project of the Global Midwest. The current iteration seeks to map “varied sonic cultures” of diverse religious communities and their practices nationwide, drawing on students, scholars, and others from around the count…