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Month: September 2017

Christianity Meets State Shinto in Meiro Koizumi’s “Today My Empire Sings”

Jeremy Woolsey This story is a stark reminder of continuing taboos surrounding the emperor in contemporary Japan and the difficulties artists face in challenging them.

Weird, Wacky, and Contradictory Yoga: 7 Questions for Anya P. Foxen

Anya P. Foxen For the purposes of this book, religion is the possibility of the human to become superhuman.

Christianity Floats Too: Why Christians Should Watch “It”

Daniel Anderson The town is philosophically Darwinian as it viciously works to separate its losers from its winners. Then, like pagans, it discards them as sacrifices to appease Pennywise.

Liberalism, Mass Media, and the Anatomy of American Cultural Warfare

L. Benjamin Rolsky In no uncertain terms, one could argue that “the personal is the political” established the epistemic foundations for what we today call the Culture Wars.

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