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Tag Archives: American religion

Disturbing Deaths and National Disunity

May 18, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman The national body politic is dead, another corpse that, perhaps in this case, doesn’t deserve a public ceremony but instead is rotting publicly before our very eyes.

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LSD [Flashback]

March 07, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman In other words, experiences with LSD and the publicity surrounding them gave shape and content to modern understandings of spirituality.

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What if Satanists Want to Pray in Public Schools? 7 Questions for Joseph P. Laycock

February 11, 2020 2 Comments

Joseph P. Laycock We held a book release party where a Satanist gave the horns and yelled, “Hail Joe!” at me.

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Religion (Whatever That Is) This Year

December 29, 2019 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman Still, let’s pray #religiousliteracy keeps trending.

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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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Just Say Yes: In Drugs We Trust

October 21, 2019 2 Comments

Gary Laderman Anyone interested in the new frontiers of American religion should pay attention to how Americans love to say yes to their drugs.

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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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The Devil’s in the Details: The Krampus Conundrum

December 21, 2018 1 Comment

Madison Tarleton Accusations of blood libels and ritual murders only heightened suspicions that Jews were demonically possessed and were most evidently non-Christian beings, perhaps even sub-human.

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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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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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