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“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence

By Spencer Dew

…ieger, like those ridden by rapturous moments at a revival, goes slack sometimes, and this book has its limp, cheap moments, cellophane grass and gassy puns that might only elicit an “organ yawn” from readers. It may not be the best poetry collection in English published this year—that may, in fact, like rivers of milk and honey or peace and goodwill between all humans on earth, simply not be a thing—but Giving Godhead is a worthwhile example of a…

Will ‘Pandemic Time’ Save Us From the Inhuman and Destructive Demands of ‘Fossil-Fuel Time’?

By Whitney Bauman

…experienced during this pandemic. What my colleague and I call “planetary times” or the time and pace of ambiguity. As philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers argues, perhaps instead of the goal-oriented thinking of “progress,” and all the tragedies that pile up along with it, we ought to think about time and our place within the planet as a palaver: a meandering or a wandering about with no specific goal but to “go on a walk.” What in German is…

Milquetoast Liberal Religion Won’t Challenge Conservative Values: A History Lesson

By Sheila D. Collins

…or a family of four (18 million people in 2012 or 17.5 percent of all full-time, year-round workers). It was not always like this. There was a time in our history when the poor and unemployed experienced a more compassionate government. During the Great Depression the federal government not only provided safety nets in the form of relief, food aid, public housing, mortgage assistance, unemployment insurance, and farm aid, but more significantly, i…

Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison

By Nick Street

…nt where the inmates would talk to me and let me do interviews. There were times when I made phone calls to inmates’ family members to let then know that visiting times had changed, to save them a long trip to the prison. I also visited the families of inmates with pastors and other volunteers to bring food, sometimes a gift a child’s dad had made. I basically become part of the lives of the people whose lives I wanted to document. How did a proje…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…and now makes her home in Minneapolis, where she’s one of a handful of fulltime staffers with Soulforce Q, the young-adult division of Soulforce. “There is a sort of redemptive suffering in standing here,” she says as a brisk autumn wind reddens her cheeks. “A lot of times students at the places we go aren’t able to be out as gay, so that’s the idea of these vigil lines—to be out and seen.” The riders always alert administrators that they plan to…

Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”

By Andrew Aghapour

…nal interest to him, but the pieces about religion would simply occur from time to time, at Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Easter. The rest of the polls were about political topics, including the Depression, what was going on in Washington, and so forth. There really wasn’t much interest [in religion] at the time, even though Gallup tried to make the poll results seem interesting, and the newspapers were carrying them. Even in the 1940s when he start…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…about. Those arguments led to the emergence of “orthodoxy” and “heresy” in time. And it took a very long time to figure out which was which (and still does). In the debate on the eve of the Iowa straw poll, every single candidate may have raised a hand in objection to John Boehner’s deal that permitted the raising of the US debt ceiling, but here once again their reasons for doing so presumably varied widely. Some may have objected that it went to…

Hajj Journal: M & M

By Amina Wadud

…ide and out, upstairs and into the basement, it was time for hajj. By this time the number of persons who had flooded the city was astronomical. The roommate and I often opted for joining prayer lines out on the street, rather than to fight with the crowds for the Haram mosque at this point. That is, unless we planned ahead by at least an hour. They said the Saudi government had allowed five million this year. I don’t know where the information co…

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…th Park episode about Joseph Smith (who also shows up as one of the “Super Best Friends” in other episodes satirizing religion). If attention is flattery, the LDS Church should be pleased. Although the Church can claim only 14 million members (an exaggerated statistic that counts all baptisms and births, but not the actual number of churchgoers), representatives of the religion—and representations of it—have managed to become fixtures in popular c…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…been largely the same each time: Repent, pray the rosary, seek peace. Sometimes she bestowed secrets upon her chosen visionaries, as at Fátima. In the first half of the twentieth century, she warned against Communism. Since the fall of the Wall, her bulletins have focused on the integrity of the nuclear family, the dangers of divorce and abortion, and the evils of consumerism. After World War II, the Virgin went global. Since 1945, at least 700 a…