How Fitbit Helps a Conservative Evangelical College Monitor Students’ Bodies For Christ
When fitness tracking industry leader Fitbit went public last summer it was valued at $4.1 billion. The…
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What’s the Problem With a Good Placebo?
Most physicians trained in modern scientific medicine are quite skeptical of complementary and alternative medicine and other spirituality-based healing practices, but contemporary research points increasingly to what we might call the deep semiotics of health. It seems, minimally, that hope helps to heal. And ritualized hope in groups heals more effectively.
Read MoreWhat’s Your Sin Ranking?
A new metric allows you to determine the Seven Deadly Sins of your county.
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Bedside Manners: The Broken Spirituality of Contemporary US Medical Practice
Sparked by his elderly mother’s impersonal medical care, our writer laments the fact that doctors aren’t spending nearly enough time listening to and getting to know their patients and its implications for a medical culture that focuses almost exclusively on the body; ignoring soul, spirit, and specificity.
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How End-of-Life Issues Are Being Used to Thwart Health Care Reform
As they muster their forces against health care reform, Republican culture warriors and conservative media outlets stir fear of “deadly doctors” and “government-encouraged euthanasia”.
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Air Kissing the Mezuzah: Religion and Science Collide in Fight Against Virus
In both Israel and India, religious rituals governing purity and health are clashing with efforts to stop the “swine flu” virus from spreading and killing more citizens.
Read MoreProsperity Preacher Peddling “Death Panel” Myth
Shouldn’t a professed “health and wealth” preacher be concerned with health care? Apparently, politics get in the way…
Read MoreWhy Not Partisanship?
When a coalition of religious progressives stands firmly in support of the president’s health care reform, why insist that it’s not a partisan move? How about “God’s Partisanship”?
Read MoreThe New Craze That’s Sweeping The Nation: Killing Granny
Deep, rich, wingnuttery abounds as everyone from Pat Buchanan to Fred Thompson falls over one another to try to terrify us about government-sponsored eugenics.
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Sex Work: In Bed with the Religious Right
Is American sexual culture schizophrenic? Yes, and this has everything to do with the sexual politics of the religious right. Sexual opportunity is everywhere, but sexual rights have, at the same time, been concretely eroded.
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