What Makes a Mountain, Hill, or Prairie a ‘Sacred’ Place for Native Americans?
Rosalyn R. LaPier What makes a mountain, hill or prairie a “sacred” place?
Jerry Garcia on the Grateful Dead Concert Experience
Dead concert = religious experience?
In Memoriam: Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry, 1926-2017
Seven Questions for David G. Robertson
David G. Roberston There is nothing more rational about believing in Jesus’ resurrection than believing that Reptilian extraterrestrials secretly run the world.
Get Out: The Ending We Needed
Nicole Symmonds Peele grants viewers, especially black ones, the kind of reprieve we’ve been hoping for as citizens of a world hell-bent on ensuring that our lived experience is one of horror and not happy endings.
Jim James’ Musical Blend of the Religious, Spiritual, and Secular
Scott Muir My aim here is not to fix any “real meaning” to James’ output or speculate about his personal identity, but rather to illustrate how he presents an entangled web of meanings that his listeners may appropriate for their own religious/spiritual/secular constructions of the sacred.
The Changing Nature of America’s Irreligious Explained
Richard Flory Despite the rapid increase in the number of Americans who claim no religious affiliation, nones remain a relatively small group within the American electorate.
The Look of White Supremacy
Kelly J. Baker What pop culture usually gives us are caricatures of white supremacists, and journalists, and the public more largely, expects living and breathing white supremacists to match this narrow portrayal of white supremacy.
7 Questions for André M. Carrington
André Carrington Ritual, pilgrimage, and ecstasy are not only metaphors when it comes to people’s devotion to cultural texts—these terms are really useful in theories of the practice of making genre traditions.
Decolonizing the Sacred
Lily Oster Drawn to the power and earth-connectedness of Lakota spirituality, white people at Standing Rock too frequently expressed our claims to total access to native religion, and even to leadership.