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The Surprisingly Short History of Popular Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain and Michelle Goldberg

…part of a consumer culture in which practitioners choose yoga products and services based on individual desires and needs. Consumption of this kind appears rather hedonistic, or perhaps, as Jeremy Carrette and Richard King have put it strongly, is characterized by an “obsession with the individual self and a distinct lack of interest in compassion, the disciplining of desire, self-less service to others and questions of social justice.” The last p…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…e upon Brown from inside his Chevy Tahoe. A few yards further down, in the center of the street, is a makeshift memorial atop the spot where Michael’s body lay on the street for four hours before he was moved. I knelt down and placed my hand on the cement. Though the temperature was only in the 80s when our cohort visited, it was hot to the touch. A mix of roses, stuffed animals and cards adorned the block of darker asphalt that didn’t match the r…

Super Bowl Sunday, American Holy Day

By Gary Laderman

…me, symbolic and ritual orders are also reaffirmed, especially at the very center of the festivities—the middle of the field and in the middle of the game—and at the very end of a long season of conflict and strife, risk-taking, and chance for the teams involved. Flags flying, fans behaving, time passing, authorities presiding, athletes competing—the game is predicated on familiar sights and sounds, movements and interactions, a predictable order…

Immortal Illusions: Should We Stop Trying to Live Forever?

By Beatrice Marovich

…poch—truly, not that long ago—common knowledge held that the earth was the center of the universe and that fiery furnace we call the sun revolved around us. The earth was the greatest mover and shaker in the cosmos. But, of course, the center would not hold. Of more recent vintage is the hypothesis that the earth is actually just a great big creature: a mortal organism. The earth might be strong (padded with rock, loaded with magma), but it’s not…

The Risk of Teaching Theology in a Public University: A Response

By Martin Kavka

…ation, totaling $1 million dollars, to support programming at the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion (BCSR) devoted to “public theology.” At approximately the same time, the Religious Studies Program at UC–Berkeley declared that it would not accept new majors during the 2015–16 academic year, while a group of faculty overhauled the curriculum. Large institutions are complex things. There was no reason to assume that these two events were re…

The Episcopal Church ‘Takes a Flying Leap’ into Controversies Old and New

By Elizabeth Drescher

…rough the intervening years, controversy at this year’s General Convention centered primarily on resolutions related to sexuality, gender, and identity. At the center of this were resolutions ensuring access to all aspects of the Church for transgender persons (D002 and D019) and providing liturgical rites for the blessing of same-gender relationships (A049). No small number of commentators in both the blogosphere and conventional news organizatio…

Muslim Women Create a Mosque of Their Own in Los Angeles

By Brie Loskota

…laim is contested. Edina Lekovic, who gave the khutbah (sermon) during the service, noted that there were women’s mosques in ten other countries around the globe. “It’s been done before,” noted Amal Al Kalla, who also attends the Islamic Center of Southern California. “Women did lead prayer in the time of the Prophet.” “We respect the orthodoxy and we also want to push it,” Maznavi said. Los Angeles itself has long been the starting point for move…

The Wrong Man: Why Falwell’s Paying for His Indiscretion But Trump Gets a Pass

By Leslie Dorrough Smith

…rsity, it was only the latest in a string of incidents with Falwell at the center of the public spotlight. The offending picture features Falwell holding a dark-colored drink (which he calls “black water”) and his arm around a female friend’s waist. Falwell’s pants are unzipped, with his stomach and underwear intentionally exposed in a way intended to mimic his friend’s similarly-bare pregnant belly. This photo may strike some as a relatively tame…

Speaker Mike Johnson to Allow Privately Run National Prayer Breakfast into the Heart of the Capitol

By Jonathan Larsen

…ovember to relocate the National Prayer Breakfast from the Capitol Visitor Center to the Capitol rotunda, long considered the symbolic heart of Congress. Nothing has happened with the bill, but Statuary Hall is the next best thing, and rich with its own history and symbolic implications for any events taking place there. Statuary Hall was used early in its history for presidential inaugurations and more recently for distinguished political leaders…

Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

By Peter Montgomery

…zation,’ ” Dorothy Aken’Ova, executive director of Nigeria’s International Center for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights, said of the law. “Where it was quiet before, it’s gotten people thinking, ‘Who is behaving in a manner that may be gay?’ It’s driven people into the closet.” Officials here in Bauchi say they want to root out, imprison and punish gays. Local lawyers are reluctant to represent them. Bail was refused to the gay people already…