Religion Dispatches
The Internet functions as a sort of midway point between the personal and the public: you can be part of a community of fans, and yet you don’t have to bare the depths of your soul.
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Almost no one was fooled last week when footage surfaced of what appeared to be…
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Why the current cultural fetish for zombies? In 2014’s Hooked, Nir Eyal ventures a guess: “Perhaps…
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On a historic trip to Cuba this week, and in the wake of a terrorist…
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Zombies are the perfect villains for our multiethnic, multireligious, multicultural, interconnected age.
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Editor’s Note: Among the trends that bear watching throughout America’s evolving Christian landscapes is a holistic rethinking…
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For all its laudable qualities—its complex characters, its unwavering if imperfect commitment to tackling race,…
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Why ridiculous fake religion makes for such great binge-watching.
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With bonus: 12 Quotes from the Underwood Bible
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“Religious enthusiasm” or the American apocalyptic can be read as modes of the disaffection of the citizen in a time of political delegitimation. We often see this “religion” taking shape most clearly when we focus all the way down, to the odd hybrid of melancholy and triumphalism in these assertions about Damascus.
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