...of law, mobility, and innovation so that social practices themselves do not ossify into structures of oppression but feed into the formation of a just and generous common life? Instead...
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Tweets of faith
by Laura Duane...of an automated Twitter feed to “pray the hours”. Inspired by the Holy Scripture’s injunctions to “pray without ceasing” ( 1 Thessalonians 5:17), users can sign up to receive hourly...
Give me that digital religion
by Kathryn Reklis...Media Project—is assuming that digital technologies are “merely” tools to be used for good or ill, depending on the intentions of the users. On this model, whether or not a...
New media and the reshaping of religious practice
by Heidi Campbell, Elizabeth Drescher, Paul Harvey, Stewart Hoover, Michael D. Kennedy, David Morgan and Randall J. Stephens...and, especially for younger teen girls and young adults of all genders, Twitter feeds. Attending to these micro-forms is something we learned from Steven Johnson’s influential book Emergence: The Connected...
Corporate missions: Commerce, freedom, and the public good
...such institutions have done enough to maintain the trust of users and customers. Drawing on fifteen years of research, Sucher is informed by her data when stating “[…] people want...
A modest defense of the listicle
by Patton Dodd...than you care to list. They can be informative, even inspired. But in the main, thanks especially to content factories like BuzzFeed, listicles serve up the web’s junk food. Editorial...
Deepening the “zero-sum binary”
...Malaysia has widened the dichotomy between sharia and civil law, leaving the debates over these domains, and the dilemmas—often heartbreaking—of petitioners unresolved. These controversies and legal debates have made Malaysians...
Our front yard Madonnas
by Roger Friedland...could do was feed her, clothe her, and even bathe parts of her with my eyes shut. Every day we would take short, ambling walks in this well-kept neighborhood, the...
The dead ends of Hindu supremacy
...Hindu colony in a mixed neighborhood that houses Muslims, Hindus, and Dalits, Sonaliben was finding it hard to feed herself and her daughter and granddaughters. She worked as a cook...
The politics of divine intervention
by Amira Mittermaier...founder of the Muslim Women’s Association, claimed, for instance, that, while imprisoned in the 1960s, God’s angels appeared in her cell to feed, clothe, and protect her. She also reported...