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Experimental Theater Meets Experimental Faith: The Wooster Group’s “Early Shaker Spirituals”

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

The subject of The Wooster Group’s latest work, Early Shaker Spirituals by the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake, Maine, may elicit chuckles. After all, the last time the company based shows on recorded music, they came out with “Hula” and “LSD: Only the High Points.” But there’s no one better prepared to interpret the work of the celibate, plain-living religious group than this wildly experimental group of artists. Both are pioneers in their f…

Religion Comes to its Senses

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

First, a spoiler alert of sorts: the “half” in S. Brent Plate’s latest book is us. That is, the seeking, incomplete human body. Plate, a longtime RD writer and Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Hamilton College, contends that religion is a physical activity, the spiritual experienced through our senses. And each of those five other objects—stones, incense, drums, crosses, and bread—have a sensory component. (You can read an ada…

Spiritual-Not-Religious or Just Lazy?

By Kate Blanchard

…igations of actually practicing a religion.” The Reverend Lillian Daniel’s latest book, When “Spiritual But Not Religious” Is Not Enough, will not disappoint readers who have come to enjoy her self-deprecating humor, her theological insights, and of course, snarky jabs at those fence-sitters who want it all: the SBNR. The book is a collection of stories and essays, some more sermonic than others. There is a lovely reflection on being the “stand-in…

Obama, MLK, Not “Nice” Enough to Moderates?

By Paul Harvey

…their own biblical language; and Obama is to blame for the failure of the latest gun control measure, despite the fact that ninety percent of the public supported the background check measure that was voted down, that Gabi Giffords and the Newtown parents were there to lobby for the measure, and that Obama also employed his chief arm-twister, Joe Biden, to work the floor. Evidently, in this way of thinking, just as there was a large group of whit…

Are You Doing Your Part in the Baby War?

By Katherine Stewart

…tacking). These reflections came to mind when I picked up Lauren Sandler’s latest, One and Only: the Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One, released this month by Simon & Schuster. Why, Sandler asks, are prejudices about “selfish” and “maladjusted” single kids (and their parents) so widespread in our culture, despite much evidence to the contrary? Part of the answer has to do with myths about the happiness of singletons and the…

If Apes Could Talk to Atheists

By Beatrice Marovich

…s job at this moment in human history. As a lapsed Dutch Catholic, de Waal promotes what boils down to a version of secular humanism, suggesting that this should be a viable trade-off that could help human societies ease religion out of the body politic without ripping it out like the virgin’s beating heart. Secular humanism has, of course, also been accused of advancing forms of human exceptionalism by thinkers working with an eco-critical lens,…

Waging Patience, Not Violence

By Asma Afsaruddin

…stimes to browse the bookstores in airports in particular to check out the latest screed that had been published on the topic. All of this stoked a desire in me to write a book-length monograph soberly exploring the many dimensions of jihad as evident in different genres of Arabic language primary sources and to anchor these understandings in specific historical circumstances. Finally, after winning a couple of grants, I was able to go on two sa…

Free Arabs: Satire, Disobedience, and Disclaimers

By Nabil Echchaibi

…nt in Canada who keeps a diary against veiling. And the site’s Art section promotes controversial photo galleries on beauty and veiling, cultural and gender identities in Islam, and the use of humor in the Syrian war frontlines, among other things. As a critical space, Free Arab should be commended for promoting individual rights and civil liberties in the Arab context. The site’s work is also significant because it tries to locate secularism as a…

Shifting Talk on Mormon Racism Reveals Divisions within LDS Church

By Joanna Brooks

…ically specific account of the LDS ban on black ordination worked into the latest edition of LDS scriptures by the Church’s professional historians. Gone too was the implicit acknowledgment that the racist ban may have been the product of human error rather than divine will. Sources report behind-the-scenes efforts to have the talk edited before its publication in the Ensign, the official LDS Church magazine, in its semi-annual Conference edition….

Right-Wing Parody of Coming Out Reveals True Parody

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nce again, on the wrong side of history. With their defeat imminent, their latest attempt to beat back the gay advance is a ham-fisted and ridiculous video produced by anti-gay group Faith2Action that mocks the very coming out process that is such a point of anguish and pain for so many gay and lesbian people. Instead of recognizing the heart-wrenching act of revealing one’s true self to those we love—and facing their possible rejection—the video…