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Natural: How Faith in Nature’s Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science

November 21, 2020 Leave a Comment

Alan Levinovitz Should we value what’s natural or not? When is it okay and when is it not okay?

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Does Transfusion of Convalescent Plasma Make Us Cannibals?

May 27, 2020 Leave a Comment

Manju Lata Prasad But our civilization has evolved since these times and decries all forms of cannibalism.

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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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7 Questions for Anthony Petro

November 25, 2015 1 Comment
AIDS Memorial Quilt

I wanted to write something about religion and sexuality for my doctoral work, but I never thought about writing on religion and the AIDS crisis until I watched a film by Gregg Bordowitz, an artist and professor at the Art Institute of Chicago. . . . One of the scenes featured a gay black man standing at a microphone, describing how horrendous the AIDS crisis was at the time – in the 1980s – and then he spoke about God. Not in a negative way, but as a positive force, as a source of grace, even for gay men with AIDS.

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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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