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Baptismal Fonts and Brew Halls: A Conversation With “The Church Brew Works” Founder Sean Casey

July 30, 2019 Leave a Comment

Madison Tarleton Over the course of our conversation, Sean continued to ask, “what do you mean by sacred?”

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Thanksgiving Rites and Wrongs: Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and the American Imagination

November 19, 2018 Leave a Comment

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.

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A Long Strange Trip: Exploring How Yoga-Narasimha Landed on the Grateful Dead’s First Album Cover

July 30, 2018 4 Comments

Deepak Sarma He did suggest that I try to interview living members of the band but, alas, I am still pursuing that unreachable lead.

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America’s 10 Commandments: 7 Questions for Jenna Weissman Joselit

June 24, 2017 1 Comment

Jenna Weissman Joselit No other country made, or continues to make, as much of them as America does.

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Remembering Prince

May 17, 2017 Leave a Comment

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.

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The Changing Nature of Sacred Spaces

May 05, 2017 Leave a Comment

Wendy Cadge Flexibility is evident in many health care organizations where religious symbols have increasingly been removed from traditional chapels and furniture put on wheels to be as versatile as possible.

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Lazarus

April 25, 2017 Leave a Comment

Jill Marshall In the Gospel and Bowie’s interpretation of it, the act of coming back from the dead is dramatic and controversial.

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The Ruling Class: Jeff Tweedy Singing about Jesus

April 07, 2017 Leave a Comment

Jeff Tweedy Yeah he’s back jack, smokin’ crack, find him if you wanna get found…

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Jim James’ Musical Blend of the Religious, Spiritual, and Secular

March 03, 2017 Leave a Comment

Scott Muir My aim here is not to fix any “real meaning” to James’ output or speculate about his personal identity, but rather to illustrate how he presents an entangled web of meanings that his listeners may appropriate for their own religious/spiritual/secular constructions of the sacred.

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Seven Questions for Erin A. Smith: What Would Jesus Read?

August 10, 2016 Leave a Comment

Erin A. Smith I purposely excluded sacred scriptures from the study, because I wanted to investigate the messy relay between the commercial and the transcendent.

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