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Jesus Christ Movie Star: A Brief History of Religion and Cinema

April 23, 2014 Leave a Comment

By S. Brent Plate In the beginning was the Jesus film . . . The birth of cinema dates from the Lumière brother’s first public screening for a paying audience in a Paris café in December 1895. The following decade

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Religion is Dead; Long Live . . . the Sacred

April 18, 2014 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it’s the end of Religion as we know it.  And I do feel fine.  Bring on the “nones,” the SBNRs (Spiritual But Not Religious for those of you not up to

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Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Heart: Learning About the New Age from After School Cartoons

March 12, 2014 Comments are off

  By Beth Singler “Captain Planet, he’s our hero, Gonna take pollution down to zero, He’s our powers magnified, And he’s fighting on the planet’s side.” Travel back with me now through the mists of time to when dinosaurs roamed

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Muslim Men: Please Shut Up about Women!

February 26, 2014 Comments are off

By Amanullah De Sondy A recent Pew Research Center study indicated how “people” in various Muslim countries “prefer” Muslim women to dress. The results are varied from fully veiled dress to no veil at all. There seems to be no

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Why I Still Love Disney, or, Imagineering Religion

February 11, 2014 Leave a Comment
Disney World Main Street at Night

  By S. Brent Plate This is the sign that hangs over the entrance to Disneyland, less than an hour from where I grew up in Southern California. I realize some people save up for years to drive the kids

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Sanctifying the Senses: Thoughts on Beyoncé as Liberative Praxis

January 21, 2014 Comments are off

By Alexis S. Wells If accepting imperfections and eschewing insecurities are a female rite of passage, then in her self-titled visual album, Beyoncé establishes herself as one of pop culture’s preeminent guides. Since its surprise release through iTunes, the collection

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Letters Not Comments: Slowing Down the Conversation

October 07, 2013 Comments are off

What is more controversial than religion? What is more volatile than differences of opinion over the status and role and truth of religion? What causes more flare ups and flame outs than online commenting, usually anonymous, on the topic of

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Introducing Sacred Matters

October 07, 2013 Comments are off
Introducing Sacred Matters

Sacred Matters is a web magazine of public scholarship that undercuts conventional understandings of religion and reimagines the boundaries between religion and culture. It is designed with the “nones” in mind, the fastest growing segment of the American religious landscape

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