A Catholic’s Eulogy for the Harvard “Black Mass” Controversy
By now, many in the Boston area and beyond are familiar with the controversy surrounding the “reenactment”…
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Black Mass Hysteria at Harvard: The Real Story
When the Satanic Temple offered to perform a historical re-enactment of a black mass through the Harvard…
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The Satanic Temple, the group behind the proposed monument to Satan in Oklahoma, has announced that they will hold…
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Satanist Monument Shines Light on Christian Privilege
Will the challenge to build “an homage to the historic/literary Satan” at Oklahoma’s capital actually change anything?
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Mexico’s Own Satanic Panic
Mexico may have experienced its own “Manson moment” last month when eight devotees of “Santa Muerte” were arrested for the murder of three people, allegedly as human sacrifices. While the media has been fairly restrained in covering this event, these murders will likely have lasting consequences for alternative religion in North America. Like the Manson murders, the Santa Muerte murders present a concrete instance of violence that can be used to support much broader claims about the dangers of the religious and cultural Other.
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Crying Witch: Learning From the O’Donnell “Dabbling” Debacle
While Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell didn’t say anything about Wicca, per se, when she talked about “dabbling into witchcraft,” her more recent “kill the witch” comments will surely distance her further from pagan communities used to dealing (especially around Halloween) with this confusion between the swirling cultural tropes of “the witch” and those who embrace “witch” as a religious self-description.
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Skepticism Over O’Donnell’s Dabbling in Witchcraft
Which witch is which?
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