...Prosperity Gospel can sound as if it comes from preachers who live under rocks, not in mansions: “God wants to give you your own house,” big-cheese pitchman Joel Osteen announced...
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Super Bowl and religion roundup
by John Schmalzbauer...an “affirmation of American civil religion.” This year there was even more grist for the sports-and-religion mill. Weeks before the big day, controversy was already brewing over an advertisement featuring...
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The rise of “Islamic” broadcasting in Turkey
by Hikmet Kocamaner...big change in the power relations between secularist and Islamist political forces. Islam stamped its dominance onto the political arena for the first time within the history of the secular...
Theologies of American exceptionalism
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Moreton and Paarlberg
by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Lisa H. Sideris...present cosmic unfolding, from the Big Bang to the present, as a modern creation myth. The “new story” is touted as universal and empirically true. As such, it informs us...
Experience between the secular and the divine
Experience between the secular and the divine: Conclusion
Is this all there is
True religion
by A moment
...count again. This is called: repair. We may wonder if the trail too leaves a trail behind Not a big obvious thing living all by itself, A shiver maybe, An...
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Call for Applications | International Center for the Humanities and Social Change, UCSB
by The Editors...ways to questions of fact, value, clarity, and responsibility as these relate especially (though not exclusively) to matters such as media, politics, public trust, and institutional legitimacy; big data, surveillance,...
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Rubber soul
by Vincent P. Pecora...fantastic spiritual exercise? The big news began with the current Pope’s commentary on the acceptability of using condoms to prevent AIDS, a worthy statement, especially considering the extent to which...
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What we cared about in 2008
by Nicole Greenfield...academic study that normally wouldn’t even cross the NYT’s radar. But it’s big, it’s the culmination of a career, and its publisher, Belknap/Harvard University, put all of its considerable prestige...
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Downplaying gay marriage and the Religious Right
by Laura Duane...conference. It would appear that gay marriage is just not that big a deal anymore and that the Christian right—long the main source of opposition—isn’t either. Both are scenarios I...