new religious movements

(A)theologies, ArchiveSeptember 4, 2017

Lying Boldly: Louise Hay and the Problem of Religious Science

By Peter Laarman

The news of Louise Hay’s death took me right back to the mid-1980s and the…

Archive, Books, Israel-Palestine, RD10Q, RD10QAugust 24, 2017

Feeding on the Faithful: How Supernatural Thinking Empowered the Third Reich

By Eric Kurlander

Author Eric Kurlander answers RD’s 10 Questions

(A)theologies, ArchiveAugust 9, 2017

How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics

By Christopher Douglas

“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.”

(A)theologies, Archive, Culture, Remapping American ChristianitiesAugust 1, 2017

Unmasking the “Veiled Prophet” Behind a 135-Year-Old St. Louis Tradition

By Spencer Dew

The Arch City Religion Project is one of the latest digital means of mapping (and remapping) American Christianities and American religions more broadly.

Archive, Science & Technology, The CubitJanuary 9, 2017

Trickle-Down Metaphysics and the Dawn of a Trumpian New Age

By Michael Schulson

The complex of American individualism and optimism encompasses both prosperity gospel Christians and California yogis, who may often have more in common than they realize.

Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Remapping American ChristianitiesDecember 15, 2016

How to Talk to a Trump Evangelical at Christmas

By Stephen Mucher

Many Americans remain discouraged or angry about the presidential election. Those gathering around the tree this holiday season with evangelical family may feel particularly bewildered.

Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Remapping American ChristianitiesNovember 23, 2016

Sharing the Bad News of Donald Trump’s ‘Theology of Glory’

By Matthew Dodrill

“Quite possibly, bearing the cross might mean opening our homes to immigrants, confronting our racist uncles at Thanksgiving dinner, taking to the streets, and putting our bodies on the line.”