...things. This may explain why both meditators and drug users report Freud’s famous “oceanic feeling” (their monitoring of ordinary spatial boundaries is being altered). While this is interesting—and the fact...
...top government officials, including former President Aristide, the director of the national police force, the American Airlines director of security in Haiti, the Haitian anti-drug czar, as well as American...
At Religion Dispatches, Joseph Laycock explains how the Mexican drug war has caused a holy war over Santa Muerte, and why it may be making her even more popular: Devotion...
...commerce. It offers an opportunity to secure civic and national traction and standing that Christian church advertisers have long mobilized to their advantage. Park and Ride, Grace Community Church, I-5 North,...
...posts in this series were developed in connection with a workshop supported by the three-year Luce Foundation funded project “Politics of Religion at Home and Abroad,” directed by Elizabeth Shakman...
...to the shifting store of narratives within which evangelicals live, looking for the actors, plots, and experiences that are taken to belong there. Sometimes those narratives are distilled and institutionalized...
...How did a store become an expression of religion and how did being religious become equated with being conservative on social issues? The politics of religion in the U.S. is...
