6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks
In September 2014, I found myself standing before a mostly hostile Texas State Board of…
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Updated: Was Adnan Syed Falsely Accused? RD’s Live-Tweet of Serial, the Final Episode
#RDSerial live-tweet starts at noon, EST on Thursday, Dec. 18th!
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Hide the Religion, Feature the Science: 60 Minutes Drops the Ball on Mindfulness
Anderson Cooper’s journey into mindfulness was featured on the latest episode of 60 Minutes, and it…
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Claiming Yoga for India
Modi’s recent efforts are mired in inaccurate myths of yoga’s static essence and Indian origin.
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Google-Phonics, Or, ‘What Is the Sound of a Thousand Tech Workers Meditating?’
Google’s mindfulness guru wants to “democratize enlightenment”—not through boots-on-the-ground activism, of course, but through a proliferation of wearable gadgets and prohibitively expensive mindfulness seminars.
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“Saving the Planet” Sounds Strangely Religious: A Response to Ivan Strenski
The ongoing debate regarding activism and the academy: climate change edition.
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Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle
Last Sunday evening, December 7, a plump pastor named Lee Minemann interrupted services in the…
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Can Religion Professors Save the Planet?
Prof. Zoloth’s proposal tells us everything we need to know about the malaise poisoning the study of religion.
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After Ferguson: America Must Abandon “Sick Christianity” at Ease With Violence
From its Christian and colonial beginnings, America has always trafficked in the fear of black people.
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Saint John Coltrane: Fifty Years of ‘A Love Supreme’
Getting lost in the music and found in the sound.
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