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You Are What You Eat: New Book on Cannibalism Reimagines What It Means to Be Made of Flesh

By Michael Schulson

…draw between custom and taboo, human and non-human, and self and other. A spirit of uncertainty is there from the start: what is cannibalism, anyway? A firm definition is surprisingly difficult to pin down. Dining on the meat of another human being is a clear-cut case. But is eating a chimpanzee or a bonobo definitely not a kind of cannibalism? What about taking pills made from powdered mummies? That was a remedy in European pharmacies into the 2…

Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing

By Jonathan Schorsch

…donism), and biodynamic farmers, whose movement grew out of the explicitly spiritual work of Rudolph Steiner, are quite comfortable with spiritual, cosmological language. Scholar Melissa Caldwell points out that in Russia, “‘natural foods’ philosophies represent the natural environment as a source of sociability and spirituality,” and Russians feel nature “not only produces but also nourishes and protects the Russian nation.” Personal gardening is…

Deifying Pope Francis Obscures Where He’s So So Right, So So Wrong

By Daniel C. Maguire

…ioned appeal, pointedly rebuking the United Nations for verbalizing as the planet burns and pleading with a pathetic Congress to stop bickering like spoiled kids in a schoolyard. But the same Francis who’s so so right is also so so wrong. He’s still hobbled by Catholic natalism and sexism. He doesn’t seem to know that there’s not a single topic he discusses in his encyclical that isn’t impacted by overpopultation. He says, ridiculously, that “demo…

Better Science Through God?

By Nathan Schneider

…atheism, the often-religionist Protscience guerrillas offer to restore the spirit—and the metaphysics—that gave us science in the first place. Then and now, Fuller contends, God the lawgiver/designer/intervener makes a better mascot for good research than any lack thereof that atheism or agnosticism have to offer. In a revealing “Further Reading” section, he cites the accomplishments of his friends at the ID-friendly Discovery Institute unironical…

Utah Rejects Arizona-Style Anti-Immigrant Politics

By Joanna Brooks

…C misdemeanors. But it is receiving national attention as a break with the spirit and method of Arizona’s now infamously punitive SB 1070, and similar measures in Oklahoma and Missouri. LDS Presiding Bishop David Burton spoke at the signing ceremony to voice appreciation for the legislature’s work, a move that in its openness and publicity is viewed as a strong shift in political strategy by the Church, which often prefers to work behind-the-scene…

Christian ‘Purity’ Guru’s Loss of Faith May Signal a Coming Reckoning For Conservative Christianity

By Elizabeth Shively

…nstitutional leadership beyond the church, even as it capitalizes on his new status within evangelical circles. With respect to his entrepreneurial spirit, at least, Harris may not have changed so radically, after all….

Buddha-Mind, American Style

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…uiet reflections. To remain open to such change, to maintain the childlike spirit of egoless abandon and wonder that perhaps, just perhaps, promotes the soulful elasticity necessary to survive in this world for well over a century. The talk turned—again, predictably enough—to the current economic downturn. Mr. Breuning was asked how this compared to the Great Depression. There is no comparison, he opined. No one today can imagine the situation the…

Why David Sometimes Wins: What We Must Learn From Cesar Chavez

By Frederick Clarkson

…ities in open, democratic organizations, religious or non-religious, whose spirit of openness can blind them to abuses by anti-democratic elements. This can be compounded by the mutual deference that allow people to turn a blind eye to leaders and members who are turning healthy institutions into monsters. Ganz has a few suggestions on the importance of ensuring the viability of democratic structures of leadership development so that challengers h…

Rites, Rituals, and the King

By Amina Wadud

…visit to the king. I think it works. Maybe because I think being laid low, spiritually, is part of the rebirth that as successful hajj is supposed to grant. We all carry a pretty heavy weight of ego-self which surrounds our being. This we must shed, like the skin of a snake, in order to don a new, purified version of the self. But then, one really has to buy into the whole ritual thing for that to happen. One of the distinguishing characteristics…

2010: A Banner Year for Biblical Patriarchy

By Julie Ingersoll

…an anti-Christian Pantheisic religion that threatens human life across the planet and launched the Mysterious Islands Campaign to challenge the movement. In distinctly Reconstructionist phrasing and tone, they write: Without a proper understanding of the biblical doctrine of creation, man, the animal kingdom, dominion and sovereignty, our children may well fall prey to the vision-destroying false worship and spirit of the age—environmental panthei…