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Sacred American Values in Pandemic Times

April 14, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman Where will Americans put their faith in this unprecedented time of crisis?

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LSD [Flashback]

March 07, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman In other words, experiences with LSD and the publicity surrounding them gave shape and content to modern understandings of spirituality.

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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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7 Questions for Kaya Oakes

October 13, 2016 Leave a Comment

Kaya Oakes And yet, there was a real sense throughout doing the interviews that comprise a lot of the book that this was deeply sacred work: holding people’s stories, amplifying them through writing, and engaging in dialogue post publication about this fragile thing we call faith.

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7 Questions for Elizabeth Drescher

September 22, 2016 Leave a Comment

Elizabeth Drescher . . . what constitutes “religion” and the “spiritual” for most people often has little in common with what scholars study and demographers track.

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Bonnaroo Spirituality and Collective Effervescence

August 26, 2016 Leave a Comment
By Jon Elbaz - Centeroo Arch, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42667797

Scott Muir Bonnaroovians overwhelmingly endorse the notion that the festival is a sacred collective experience.

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American Secularism: Seven Questions

July 13, 2016 Leave a Comment

In our interview series, “Seven Questions,” we ask some very smart people about what inspires them and how their latest work enhances our understanding of the sacred in cultural life. For this segment, we solicited responses from Joseph O. Baker

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On Being Spiritual but Not Religious: Past, Present, Future(s)

June 16, 2016 Leave a Comment

William B. Parsons What does “being spiritual but not religious” mean? It’s on dating sites, so it must be something! But is it clear-cut and easy to identify, or is it more like what Gertrude Stein once said about Oakland, California, namely: “There is no there there.” It’s a good question. We’ll shed some light on the spiritual but not religious movement (SBNRM) and on “being” spiritual but not religious (BSBNR).

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Under-the-Radar Religion for Nones: Björk’s ‘Vulnicura’

December 23, 2015 Leave a Comment
Björk live at Villa Manin, in Codropio

Mark Hulsether If there is any part of our culture where the (typically noxious) idea of trickle-down influence actually makes sense, Björk is a good place to look. She ranks amid an extremely select handful of musician’s musicians whose creative innovations especially matter. This year her superb record, Vulnicura, flew less under the popular radar than some of her earlier work, since it was coordinated with an exhibit showcasing her fashion innovations at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and features in the New Yorker and New York Times Magazine. 

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2015: The Year in Religion

December 19, 2015 Leave a Comment
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Gary Laderman Death. Violence. Carnage. Hatred. Warfare. Demonization.

Bliss. Transcendence. Community. Comfort. Love. Glorification.

Overall, I’d say this year has been a mixed bag for religion. But then again, I’d have to say that every year throughout human history religious acts and beliefs have brought both bad and good to communities of people across the globe. America in 2015 is no different.

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