Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch
Cloying sentimentality, saccharine pablum, ridiculous camp and embarrassing kitsch—in the contemporary moment the word “angel”…
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What Happens When We Use Horror Movies to Interpret the Real World? 10 Questions for the Authors of ‘The Exorcist Effect’
What inspired you to write The Exorcist Effect? Over twenty years ago, Michael Cuneo wrote…
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Uncovering the (White) Christian Roots of Slavery, Native American Genocide, and Ongoing Efforts to Erase History
When he started to do the research for his new book, The Hidden Roots of…
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From Civil Rights Liberals to New Age Conspiracy Theorists — What Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Reveals About America
In 1961, driving back from a short vacation, Betty and Barney Hill encountered a bright…
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Russell Moore Claims There’s a Crisis in Evangelical America — But White Evangelicalism is Exactly Where it Wants to Be
Russell Moore used to be one of the top officials of the most powerful religious…
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From Christian Temperance to D.A.R.E. — The War on Drugs Has its Roots in White Christian Nationalism
Ana Marie Cox recently noted in The New Republic that conservative legislators in Florida and…
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What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
In The Family (now also a Netflix series), journalist and author Jeff Sharlet wrote about…
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy: How Amazon, Google & Neuroscience Threaten American Buddhism
Contemporary American Buddhism has a problem; thankfully, unlike Christianity, it has little to do with…
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La Carmina, Author of ‘The Little Book of Satanism,’ Talks ‘Satanic Panic,’ QAnon, Japanese Satanism, and More
For most of its existence, religious Satanism has been regarded as either unfit for polite…
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George Weigel’s Revisionist History Casts Vatican II as a Christian Nationalist Handbook
The upcoming 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, better known as Vatican II, will…
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