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Drugs and Religion: Same Thing?

January 20, 2020 1 Comment

Gary Laderman So, does your chocolate or tobacco consumption “enchant” your world?

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Psychedelics for Mind, Body, and…Spirit?

November 21, 2019 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman But it is in this more ambiguous, liminal conceptual space, between medicine and recreation, body and spirit, religion and science, that altered states of consciousness and mind altering substances do their best work.

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David Wojnarowicz’s Christ: Symbols of Hope, Corruption, and Violence

July 22, 2019 Leave a Comment

Ants scurry across a static crucifix as the figure of Jesus Christ surfaces again and again on screen, sandwiched between bowls of blood, a figure masturbating, couples having sex, and conservative Christian groups—all brought together in one film. Jesus Christ makes many appearances in “David Wojnarowicz: Photography & Film”

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Suicide: The Last Taboo?

December 10, 2018 2 Comments

Gary Laderman I am still hesitant to pursue it in my class—perhaps because of the feeling that it is “taboo”; perhaps because a lingering sense that only “professionals” should be talking about it. It is highly, highly charged for so many of us. As one student put it, “trigger warnings were made for this topic.”

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The Body of Fried Chicken and the Blood of Bud Light: Religion Around the Tailgate Table

October 01, 2018 1 Comment

Madison Tarleton The relationship that the tailgating participants have not only with one another but with the event itself allows them to create a countered “sacred space” to the mundane routines of work and daily life.

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Disney’s Christopher Robin and the Idolatry of Work

August 23, 2018 Leave a Comment

Daniel Anderson Tragically, Christopher Robin’s life seemingly proves Adorno’s adage that a “wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”

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The Ghost of Roy Orbison Goes on Tour

August 23, 2018 Leave a Comment

Peter Lehman He seemed to be defined by an absence, which then materialized as a dark, quiet persona who always kept his eyes covered in public, inviting people to project their thoughts, fears and melancholy onto him.

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

September 13, 2017 Leave a Comment

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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Remembering Prince

May 17, 2017 Leave a Comment

Mark Hulsether If music or group religious rituals can change the world—and I think at times they can—then the world changed during this performance.

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Maybe It’s Colbert’s Fault

December 16, 2016 1 Comment

Stephanie Brehm Supporters claim Trump does not mean everything he said on the campaign trail; that he will not do half of the abhorrent things he spewed. But do they believe that in part because our comedians, the funny, ironic truth-tellers were for so long invested in perpetuating truthiness?

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