...encouraging a measure of comity as well as communion. As discomfiting as it is to note, such professionals would also require a financial platform to do such work. Academics often...
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A wedding in a cemetery: Judaism, terror, and pandemic
...the American Jewish community. A renowned journalist bemoaned that Jewish summer camps might not reopen this year. Another praised Jewish day schools for handling online learning so effectively. A rabbi...
OMG: Oprah Winfrey, pop religion, and the temple of our familiar
by Daphne Brooks...and her trademark. It is a sound, a reminder of her televised exclaimations: “Oh, no.” “Oh, yes.” “Oh, please.” “Oh, I never.” “Oh!” “Oh?” “Oh.” Awed, orgasmic, thrilled, worried and...
Death, definitions, and ontological design
...Americans. “Lazz,” short for Lazarus, was a nickname that NOI faithful used to refer to African Americans who were unknowledgeable about the religious community’s teachings. What roles do naming and...
The Dobson/Obama Rorschach test
by John Schmalzbauer...Wallis, and Tony Campolo. At the time, Obama’s speech was hailed by evangelicals and others as a model of religious political engagement. While Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. (a...
Glenn Beck and the new evangelical ecumenism
by John Schmalzbauer...the LDS influences on his thinking, though not many conservative Protestants read Religion Dispatches. While Salon.com has traced the connections between Beck’s views and the writings of Mormon Bircher W....
Most-Read Essays of 2020
by The Editors...4. “Bigging Bosnia up” by Faisal Devji (06/17/2020) 5. “Protection without punishment: Turning to Buddhist gods during Covid-19” by Bryan Lowe (06/25/2020) 6. “President Trump visits St. John’s Church” by...
Pandemics and the meaning of Black religion
...1918 flu pandemic. Black newspapers documented the temporary closure of Black churches, and the open-air and home services to “keep the fires of the spirit burning . . . .”...
Presence and contagion
...to think Covid-19 might propel attempts to manage Catholic presence. Not in the sense that the Eucharist would somehow, conspiratorially, be put on perpetual hold. But that, with communal consumption...
Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place
.... . bodies out of the limelight.” These essays consider how we mourn without the body or, conversely, without knowledge of the deceased’s life story. Contributions by Shana Minkin and...