How ‘Positivity’ Can Lead to Conspiratorial Thinking
Positivity and positive thinking are very often held as inherently good qualities to embody. If you…
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Why I’m Not Quite Sold on ‘Black Santa’
Like many areas in American life, the symbols of Christmas are haunted by the specter…
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How U.S. Conservatives Conjured the Jesus of Their Dreams
It seems that when Donald Trump and his Republican enablers are able to seat a…
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Corporation as ‘Citizen’ is the Next Anti-Black, Anti-Democratic Model that Needs to be Torn Down
When Claudia Rankine was asked by The Guardian why she decided to give the title…
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Civil Religion v. Uncivil Religion; With Deadly Consequences
Readers will know that we at Religion Dispatches hold no special brief for faith or…
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The Broken Promise of Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘The Goop Lab’
It is perhaps unsurprisingly rare for anyone to talk about Goop, New Agers, and the…
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Netflix’s Iranian ‘Messiah’ Is a Gift to Trump and His Evangelical Base
Amid horrific natural disasters and a global refugee crisis, an Iranian menace emerges. This might…
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Updated: Netflix’s Gay Jesus Upsetting Brazilian Christians Has a Centuries-Old History
See below for video clips of religious satire mentioned in the article – eds UPDATE…
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A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
Since the turn of this century, following the news is like experiencing a daily repudiation…
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Almost-Blockbuster Netflix Series ‘The Family’ Exposes a Christian Network Whose God Is Power
Homophobia, misogyny, and contempt for the poor are so very much taken for granted and accepted as “Christian” within The Family that its principals are able to say, with a perfectly straight face, that they have no political agenda when they support and subsidize authoritarian leaders around the world who exemplify and implement these hatreds.
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