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The Contested Religious Powers of Baseball on Display in Cuba

By Sean O'Neil

…ment of 50,000, as if the faithful at church. The devotion was audible, as tickets were distributed to friends of the Cuban government and not through a public sale. Here the religious nature of the Cuban sporting event is acknowledged only to be dismissed as inauthentic. The patriotic, quasi-religious crooning is suspicious because of its apparent production by the Cuban government, which distributed tickets to friends. Morosi recognizes religiou…

Mike Lee Wins Utah Senate Primary

By Joanna Brooks

…d Provo, while Bridgewater hoped but failed to win by holding metropolitan Salt Lake City and rural Utah. So while some may paint this as another Tea Party victory, Lee’s win in fact returns Utah to an old and familiar tradition of preferring Mormon men from historic, multigenerational Mormon families connected to the institutional leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lee, 38, is the son of former US Solicitor General and…

From Here to Eternity: Of Mormons and Celestial Marriage

By Holly Welker

…City Cemetery, and you’ll see headstone after headstone engraved with the Salt Lake temple, with an occasional depiction of some other LDS temple here and there. Unlike crosses adorning Catholic headstones or the Star of David on Jewish headstones, the LDS temple is not a symbol, a refined visual token of belief or belonging: instead, it’s a literal representation—announcing where the people in these graves were married. It is impossible to under…

“We Want Everyone to Come to the Family Reunion”

By Joanna Brooks

…ty Pride parade to show its love and support for LDS people. With the 2013 Salt Lake City Pride Parade scheduled for Sunday, June 2, RD spoke with Mormons Building Bridges organizer Erika Munson to get an update on the group’s activities. What’s happened with Mormons Building Bridges since your inaugural 2012 Pride Parade appearance? The march last year was an amazing catalytic spiritual experience for people there and watching from the route a…

Did America Just Dodge the Next Sarah Palin?

By Joanna Brooks

…those new “I’m a Mormon” LDS Church public relations campaign videos. The Salt Lake Tribune’s pollsters gave Love a 12-point lead on November 2. But against the odds, Jim Matheson held onto his seat, as Love failed to launch her Congressional career. What happened? There was the Libertarian candidate who drew away 5,000 votes—twice as many as Matheson’s 2646-vote margin of victory. There was a growing and increasingly organized Latino community…

Homophobia an “Atrocity,” LDS Bishop Tells Gay Mormon Conference

By Joanna Brooks

…erdenominational worship service on Sunday morning. On Sunday evening, the Salt Lake Tribune reported that speaker Kevin Kloosterman, an LDS bishop from Illinois, had said that “the way gays are treated and perceived by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is an ‘atrocity”— an inaccurate report, according to conference attendees. I spoke with Bishop Kloosterman Sunday night to hear his side of the story. (A full transcript of Bishop Klo…

“Equality is Not a Feeling”

By Joanna Brooks

…in Women founder Kate Kelly to a pre-demonstration gathering in a downtown Salt Lake City park. “To them I say: you can feel respected, supported and validated in the church, but equality can be measured. Equality is not a feeling. In our church men and women are not equal.” After hymns and prayers, Ordain Women participants walked to elm-lined Temple Square, the heart of historic Mormonism and site of the Church’s General Conference. As men and b…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…kepocalypse”: for the first time ever, the event sold out. Scalpers hawked tickets for hundreds of dollars over their purchase price and artists who had been working feverishly to finish their projects but had put off purchasing tickets were left out in the cold. It was a different scene in 1997 when I first came to Burning Man and only waited briefly at the entrance as a “Greeter” cast a cursory glance at my car. But the Greeters’ enthusiastic re…

Blame Series Bonus: Why We Want That Dish For Free, an Uncut Interview with Bertram Malle

By Andrew Aghapour

…me shows), even when something unintentional happens—say you know that the airline didn’t intentionally keep you from flying—the question that humans often pose is, “Was this preventable?” “Could they have done something to prevent that?” And that’s when we wonder—well, who could have done something to prevent it? The person at the counter? The pilot? The CEO? We don’t know, and so we have, in a sense, a certain disorientation and don’t know to wh…

Predicting the Future of Religion: A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…man Catholic Church, whose increasingly diverse membership— in the “Global South” of South America, Africa and Asia— promises to radically alter its face. After the College of Cardinals elected the first non-European Pope in more than a century (albeit one of Italian descent) it seems unthinkable that the next Pope won’t come from Asia, Africa, or South America. A Pope from the United States seems unlikely, as the United States Conference of Catho…