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Commerce, Commercialism, Commercialization: How Money Gets Spent and Talked About on Holy Land Tours

January 30, 2015 Leave a Comment
"Dome on the Rock"

By Hillary Kaell Every year, a quarter-million Christians from the United States walk where Jesus walked, a trip they describe as a physical and imaginative return to the source of their faith… 

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Holy Smoke

January 21, 2014 Comments are off

By Shalom Goldman Since the 1960s many in America’s alternative religious communities have embraced the use of marijuana and other mind-altering substances in their religious rituals. By hearkening back to Native American rites, these religious practitioners can point to a

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