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10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…indeed apply to yoga. 8. Yogaphobia Fear of Yoga continued to flourish. To list just a few 2014 incidents: Albert Mohler cited Indiana University religious studies scholar Candy Gunther Brown’s expertise—in 2013, Brown testified in a high-profile court case against allowing yoga in Encinitas, California public schools since it, according to Brown, promotes Hinduism—in support of his own argument that yoga is dangerous for Christians. In an op-ed p…

Mitt, the Marriotts, and Porn

By Joanna Brooks

…f internet technological and capacity innovation before the advent of the smart phone. And if we want to start a serious conversation about where presidential candidates get their money and how ethical that money is, let’s do it. I have a laundry list of labor, environmental, feminist, and human rights issues with multinational corporations I’d love to start working through. But don’t give me a thin, opportunistic connect-the-Mormon-dots story a…

Prophecy and Prosperity are Keys to Republican Christian Nationalism According to New Poll

By Daniel Schultz

…coalition, this is hardly a satisfactory answer. Are the Christian nationalists fundamentalists? Catholics? Protestants? If so, what kind of Protestant? To get a more specific answer, PRRI examines two sets of factors. The first set concerns “Charismatic elements in churches.” When most people think of Charismatic practices, they might envision divine healing or people speaking in tongues. But PRRI includes such features as receiving an answer to…

Why Feminism’s Big Tent Isn’t Big Enough for the Anti-Abortion Movement

By Patricia Miller

…handful of organizations like Feminists for Life and the Susan B. Anthony list that have in recent years sought to claim the mantle of feminism for the anti-abortion movement. These groups aren’t looking to join the feminist movement, however, but in the words of New Wave Feminists are “looking to take feminism back from those who have corrupted it.” Anti-abortion feminists assert that the original feminists, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady S…

Why I Will Not See The Help: A Rant

By Rosetta E. Ross

…transferred Biko’s courage and tenacity to make Donald Wood (a white journalist I’d never heard of) the story’s hero. This is how I experienced the book The Help. The second false message is this: The really important point of all cultural production and activity is for white agency and dignity to be actualized. The overarching plot of this book presents the narrative of a young white woman finding herself and her voice amidst cliches, circumscrip…

What’s Behind Trump’s “Impossibly Stupid” Roll Back of Contraception Mandate

By Daniel Schultz

…and the Supreme Court added “closely-held, for profit corporations” to the list. So even the most benign explanation is that Trump is playing to his base’s fears of cultural displacement, including the displacement of losing the ability to police women’s sexuality, without really doing much of anything. What seems more likely (not taking the White House at its word) is that this is another in a long series of efforts by the president to undermine…

Blame Muscular Christianity for Driscoll Fiasco

By Hollis Phelps

…the charges of plagiarism, to his gaming of the New York Times Bestseller List, to his reputation as a hyper-masculine misogynist and homophobe with an authoritarian leadership style. [T]he scheme itself is part of an overall ethos that seeks to proselytize “by every means available.” What’s important, in other words, is that people hear “about Jesus”—however that might happen. Thus it was not surprising when Driscoll announced this past weekend…

Places of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church

By Mary Fulkerson

…munications which occur in excess of what people say and explicit religious language as well. Visit our RDBook page for a complete list of our interviews with authors……

Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Avatar and the Myth of Originality

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…and frustration), a bit of Gilligan’s Island, and populated by a character list of Who’s Who in Philosophy: John Locke, Desmond “David” Hume, Rousseau, and George W. Bush’s favorite philosopher, Jesus (as Jack “Shephard”). Or consider the cast of 30 Rock as a reinvention of The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Liz Lemon=Mary Richards; Jack Donaghy=Lou Grant; Pete Hornberger=Murray Slaughter; Tracy Jordan + Jenna Maroney=Ted Baxter. These cultural products a…

The Top 10 (Non-Religious) Religious Films of 2017

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…f the mother. Aronofsky continues his quest to audio-visualize Jewish Kabbalistic themes, threaded with some psychoanalysis, poetry, and surrealistic montages. Follow the logic through and it’s a dim view of humanity, and of G-d. 3) Mudbound Rachel Morrison’s cinematography emphasizes the mudbound. Drawing on photos by Dorothea Lange and other WPA photographers, and paintings by Thomas Hart Benton, she visually sacralizes the profane. This is no…