...tissue (19% exclusive to one brand, with 59% expressing a brand preference) pain reliever (16% exclusive to one brand, with 57% expressing a brand preference) soft drinks (14% exclusive to...
...and you can’t have any. You may thank the War on Drugs whenever you like. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, a preponderance of the participants report an increased awareness of, and openness to,...
...religion’s “elementary forms.” I borrow Durkheim’s iconic language, while amending his assumption that there are elementary forms of a generic religion at the root of all cultures. Durkheim identifies an...
...drugs merely to “get high” would count as a trivial, frivolous purpose, injecting drugs for spiritual purposes, as practiced within some Native American groups, rightly fall under the category of...
Participation in online religious communities and practices (“liking” religious pages on Facebook, posting religious messages, and joining online religious communities) has become an increasingly widespread phenomenon. A recent “Room for...
...evangelical preaching’s bastard offspring, offers the promise of entry into a more charismatic life in exchange for the dissipation of spiritual and economic capital: buy, believe, buy and believe more....
Crisis talk is the currency of the mass (and niche) media, and it can lead to a mentality that is paradoxically anxious (always attuned to the next crisis) and numbed...
...web who were critical thinkers, not Torah scholars. These affective experiences of language, their materialities in how they look online and how they circulate, shape emerging publics. And these online...
