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Prayer or Pulsars?
Reporting in the Science section of the New York Times on Tuesday, John Tierney probes the paper's most popular pieces. They're not breezy bits about sex, pets, diets or relationships. Rather, they're long, “intellectually challenging” articles that elicit an emotional … Continue reading
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Playing Indian
by Judith Weisenfeld On February 3, 2010, the Yavapai County, Arizona Sheriff's Department arrested self-help counselor James Arthur Ray, charging him with three counts of manslaughter for the deaths that took place in the course of his October 2009 “Spiritual … Continue reading
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Let Pat be a Lesson to You
by Tom Pfingsten Only Pat Robertson could offhandedly twist a natural disaster to make it sound like a divine slap in the face to some of the world's poorest people. Whether he intended to or not, Robertson instantly became a … Continue reading
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Religion in Uniform
by Meghan McCarty There may be no atheists in foxholes, but apparently there are a few Wiccans. Stories broke this week concerning a Wiccan stone-circle established at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs–that bastion of evangelical Christianity. But what … Continue reading
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New Muslim Cool
In a time of danger and promise–a man, a family and a generation come of age. New Muslim Cool is Islam as you have never seen it. It is also hip-hop as you have probably never heard it. Join us … Continue reading
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Conversation with Ronit Avni
Filmmaker and human rights advocate Ronit Avni discusses her work and screens portions of her documentary Budrus, the story of a Palestinian-led movement in the West Bank that brings together all Palestinian political factions as well as Israelis to wage … Continue reading
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Capricology
Religion Dispatches has enlisted Anthea Butler, Salman Hameed, Henry Jenkins and Diane Winston to produce Capricology, and ongoing blog-conversation about the current SyFy series exploring life on Caprica a half-century before the events depicted in the series Battlestar Galactica.
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Touched by an Angel in the Twenty-First Century
by Rebecca Wanzo As movies like “Legion” and TV shows such as Supernatural make clear, angels are once again pop culture commodities, though the kinder, gentler sort (think Roma Downey or Michael Landon) are definitely passe. Our era's closest facsimile … Continue reading
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Covering Context
by Jason Ma The debate in France over banning burqas is one of those issues where geopolitics, gender and religion all collide in a train wreck. In terms of media coverage, that collision has raised a cacophony of voices, ranging … Continue reading
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Capricology: Television, Tech and the Sacred
If there had just been the BSG miniseries – Dayeinu If there had been the miniseries and four seasons of BSG – Dayeinu If there had been the miniseries, the four seasons, and the Caprica pilot – Dayeinu But The … Continue reading
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