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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Baptismal Fonts and Brew Halls: A Conversation With “The Church Brew Works” Founder Sean Casey
Madison Tarleton Over the course of our conversation, Sean continued to ask, “what do you mean by sacred?”
An Interview with Jason Francisco, Part 3: Płaszów, A Camp in Its Afterlives
Jason Francisco’s photography spans a variety of subjects and themes, but some of his ongoing projects take on the complexities of memory and loss in Eastern Europe, particularly memory and loss related to the Holocaust. Francisco recently sat down
An Interview with Jason Francisco, Part 2: Memory, Remembrance, and Composition
Jason Francisco’s photography spans a variety of subjects and themes, but some of his ongoing projects take on the complexities of memory and loss in Eastern Europe, particularly memory and loss related to the Holocaust.
An Interview with Jason Francisco, Part 1: Photographing the “Sacred” in “Alive and Destroyed”
Jason Francisco received his MFA in Photography from Stanford University in 1998 and is presently an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Emory University. Professor Francisco’s photography spans a variety of subjects and themes, but several of
Thanksgiving Rites and Wrongs: Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and the American Imagination
D. F. Sebastian The contrast between the practices of modern and archaic thanksgiving rites gives us insight into the broader imagination behind how our society is constructed.
A Long Strange Trip: Exploring How Yoga-Narasimha Landed on the Grateful Dead’s First Album Cover
Deepak Sarma He did suggest that I try to interview living members of the band but, alas, I am still pursuing that unreachable lead.
Weird, Wacky, and Contradictory Yoga: 7 Questions for Anya P. Foxen
Anya P. Foxen For the purposes of this book, religion is the possibility of the human to become superhuman.
America’s 10 Commandments: 7 Questions for Jenna Weissman Joselit
Jenna Weissman Joselit No other country made, or continues to make, as much of them as America does.
Remembering Prince
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.