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‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy’ Explains How We Got Here — And What Comes Next

https://religiondispatches.org/the-age-of-insurrection-the-radical-rights-assau…

Created

Sat, 06/01/2024 - 08:00

“As far as I’m concerned, I’m done with this,” investigative reporter David Neiwert told us,...

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

https://religiondispatches.org/pop-culture-angels-arent-just-low-brow-kitsch-th…

Created

Fri, 05/01/2024 - 09:19

Cloying sentimentality, saccharine pablum, ridiculous camp and embarrassing kitsch—in the contemporary moment the word “angel”...

What Happens When We Use Horror Movies to Interpret the Real World? 10 Questions for the Authors of ‘The Exorcist Effect’

https://religiondispatches.org/what-happens-when-we-use-horror-movies-to-interp…

Created

Sat, 25/11/2023 - 13:24

What inspired you to write The Exorcist Effect? Over twenty years ago, Michael Cuneo wrote...

Uncovering the (White) Christian Roots of Slavery, Native American Genocide, and Ongoing Efforts to Erase History

https://religiondispatches.org/uncovering-the-white-christian-roots-of-slavery-…

Created

Tue, 03/10/2023 - 05:31

When he started to do the research for his new book, The Hidden Roots of...

From Civil Rights Liberals to New Age Conspiracy Theorists — What Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Reveals About America

https://religiondispatches.org/from-civil-rights-liberals-to-new-age-conspiracy…

Created

Wed, 13/09/2023 - 03:54

In 1961, driving back from a short vacation, Betty and Barney Hill encountered a bright...

Russell Moore Claims There’s a Crisis in Evangelical America — But White Evangelicalism is Exactly Where it Wants to Be

https://religiondispatches.org/russell-moore-claims-theres-a-crisis-in-evangeli…

Created

Wed, 16/08/2023 - 05:57

Russell Moore used to be one of the top officials of the most powerful religious...

From Christian Temperance to D.A.R.E. — The War on Drugs Has its Roots in White Christian Nationalism

https://religiondispatches.org/from-christian-temperance-to-d-a-r-e-the-war-on-…

Created

Fri, 14/07/2023 - 05:22

Ana Marie Cox recently noted in The New Republic that conservative legislators in Florida and...

What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

https://religiondispatches.org/what-we-need-to-understand-is-that-fascism-is-in…

Created

Fri, 26/05/2023 - 05:23

In The Family (now also a Netflix series), journalist and author Jeff Sharlet wrote about...

Don’t Worry, Be Happy: How Amazon, Google & Neuroscience Threaten American Buddhism

https://religiondispatches.org/dont-worry-be-happy-how-amazon-google-neuroscien…

Created

Fri, 23/12/2022 - 05:57

Contemporary American Buddhism has a problem, although, thankfully, unlike Christianity it has little to do...