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The Role of Spirit in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement: A Conversation with Activist and Artist Patrisse Cullors

By Hebah H. Farrag

…ks” are growing. Groups are being founded, such as Harriet’s Apothecary in New York, Social Transformation Project and Black Organizing for Leadership & Dignity (BOLD), which uses somatics—a practice often used in alternative medicine and psychoptherapy—as tools to “transform” and empower leaders. One reason for this growth may have to do with a key shift in ideology. DPN actively works to dismantle the martyr mentality, an ethic that causes many…

John McCain: No God But Country

By Kathryn Lofton

…thentic by keeping it inside,” writes voter Eric Gorski in a letter to the New York Times, “He doesn’t wear religion on his sleeve because he comes from a generation and upbringing—Episcopalian—that tends not to.” Such a socially determinist explanation might apply if McCain had not made an abrupt move to a different church in the early 1990s. Although his campaign lists his affiliation as “Episcopalian,” McCain corrected a reporter in 2007, comme…

Billy Graham Is Probably Not the Author of His Own “Final Chapter”

By Elesha Coffman

…tedly linked his thoughts on hell with his concerns about the state of the world, at times paying more attention to the latter than the former. He preached, “A lady said sometime ago, ‘I hate the very thought of hell.’ So do I! And I also hate the sin that sends them there. I hate war. I hate the fact that people are starving in the world.” Unfortunately, Graham admitted, hating these things did not make them go away. Even the third kind of hell,…

Touched by a Michael Landon: America’s Jewish Angel

By Peter Manseau

…e craftsman hoots with laughter at once sad and wise. “Horns? Mishugas!” A new “Jewish word” is heard in nearly every scene shared by Albert and Mr. Singerman. Some, like rachmones and shnorer, are translated in the dialogue that follows. Others, like mishugas and klop, are used without explanation, relying on context and the familiarity with Jewish culture that had grown in the United States throughout the 1970s; thanks in large part to pop cultu…

American Jews: From Holocaust to New Age Hasidism?

By Martin Kavka

…gid is most compelling when writing about the “post-halakhism” of Jewish Renewal—a worldview that affirms the usefulness of Jewish halakhic practice both to local communities and to the world as a whole, yet denies that the practices of tradition were commanded by God. This worldview, for Magid, comes from a desire for “global liberation” and a conviction that the people of Israel will one day no longer be a primary category of Jewish belief. Such…

Occultism and New Age Take Off in Iran: An Interview with Alireza Doostdar

By Alireza Doostdar

…shot of the painting, which is held in Layla Diba’s private collection in New York City. I’m thrilled with the final result. The painting (most likely by Kamal al-Molk or someone in his circle) was executed in a realist style common at the turn of the twentieth century, but it also depicts tiny mischievous spirits dancing and playing around the exorcist as he tries to figure out if his clients are bewitched. Was the painter depicting reality, or…

Status Updates at the End of the World: The Religious Imagination and Our Latest Apocalypse

By Spencer Dew

…imilarly critical of Clinton. It is earthly power itself that’s seen as corrupt; Trump just offers a spectacularly rich example to pair with scriptural critiques. So is this Christian thought? Is this religion? Decades ago, at the peak of the move to stigmatize contemporary religious claims under the derogatory label of “cult,” scholars spoke of the so-called “cultic milieu,” understood as a kind of shadowy underworld of kooky theories, conspiracy…

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

By Michael Schulson

…abella of Spain forbade Columbus and his crew from enslaving people in the New World, unless those people were cannibals. If they were cannibals, the Queen announced, Columbus could take them, put them in chains, and sell them wherever he pleased, inside or outside Isabella’s many realms. Reports of cannibalism in the New World spiked. In general, cannibalism is widely reported but difficult to confirm. Subjects will often tell ethnographers about…

Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’

By Chrissy Stroop

…rence. We have to hold onto this if we’re going to engage in a sustained struggle for a better world. Of course, there are times when we may feel despair—and we shouldn’t try to suppress this—but we should find within ourselves the capacity to hang in there by continuing to hold onto the belief in our own individual and collective agency. CS: Is there any specific advice you would give to activists and advocates for social justice now that we’re i…

How a 15th Century Book on Witchcraft Helps Make Sense of Trump’s Bizarre Baby Execution Story

By Karen E. Park

…is telling the story of a crime which he claims has already occurred. The New York Times, Vox, MSNBC, and other outlets called the story “false,” “inaccurate,” and “misleading,” but Trump isn’t merely “lying” here (something he has done more than 10,000 times since taking office). Instead he’s creating a new and lurid narrative based on hatred. The language of truth and falsehood is misapplied in this case, since Trump’s statement about “beautifu…