Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories
By now we’ve all seen the pictures, saturating our social media landscapes with their grotesque…
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How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics
“Conservative Christians had long rejected aspects of expert knowledge, official science, reason, and their organs of circulation. They had been trained in a fundamentalist hermeneutics of suspicion.”
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The Bindi Isn’t Indie
Et tu, Beyoncé? #ReclaimtheBindi wants to challenge cultural appropriation of traditional symbols.
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The Sex Scandal Following Whole Foods’ Guru
Over the holidays, the New York Times ran a punishing profile of Marc Gafni, an ex-rabbi…
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The Cubit Vs. “New Age Colbert,” JP Sears
Cubit co-editor Andrew Aghapour collaborates with Ultra-Spiritual JP Sears on his latest video to discuss science, religion, and why journalists will be replaced by robots.
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Meet the “New Age” Stephen Colbert
In the kitchen of his Charleston, S.C. home, wearing a flower in his hair, life coach and…
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Pussy Prophets & Nuns on Buses: Will Feminist Politics Get More Holy & Foolish?
It’s simpler to assume that religion and feminism are at odds; that religion is simply the provenance of those who use tools like pro-life politics to fight feminist agendas. It’s much more complicated to think of religion as both resource and adversary in the political struggles that feminists face.
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How Contemporary Spirituality Makes Us Stupid, Selfish, and Unhappy
Why “spiritual, but not religious” is problematic and makes one academic want to punch those who say it in the face. Hard. Theologians are often open about their religious stance, so there shouldn’t be a double standard for critical, reflective atheist voices.
Rethinking Religion After Latest Holistic Death
A participant at a holistic spa was, it turns out, “cooked to death.” Instead of another wave of panic, maybe we need to rethink our categories.
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The Good Liberal Fear of a Yoga Planet
By now, it should be clear that William Broad’s broadside against yoga (sorry about that) in the New York Times is thin on facts and thick on rhetoric. Excerpted from his forthcoming book, the article, “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body,” is a full-on, un-fair-and-balanced…
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