https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to comstock laws en https://religiondispatches.org/2023/04/17/catholic-groups-leading-mifepristone-ban-are-part-century-long-tradition-who-see-it In 1995, following a spate of lethal violence against abortion providers across the United States, Catholic bioethicist Dr. G. Kevin Donovan predicted that the abortion movement faced an imminent moral and logistical dilemma. The anti-abortion movement’s extremist efforts to “seize… Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:45:05 EDT Lauren Barbato 2d0d95f6-340a-4498-a59b-867ca650e1e2 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/02/20/lila-rose-and-right-resurrect-malicious-child-predator-myth-putting-lgbtq-people-even In January the far-right website Townhall began publishing a four-part series on a so-called “Suburban LGBTQ Pedophile Ring.” The series, written by Townhall fact-checker Mia Cathell , claims to reveal “disturbing new details” about adoptive parents William and Zachary Zulock… Mon, 20 Feb 2023 01:12:47 EST R.L. Stollar 81bc25c1-b131-4628-9654-089169e17167 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/08/02/what-turn-century-anti-abortion-and-contraception-crusader-reveals-about-gop-efforts-ban While his name may not be familiar to most Americans, for 40 years, between 1873 and 1915, the mutton chopped and cherubic faced Anthony Comstock was one of the more powerful and feared people in American society. The most famous… Tue, 02 Aug 2022 01:10:19 EDT Steven K. Green 2db100a8-06a0-4e86-b620-4028e320170a https://religiondispatches.org/2015/01/29/fake-evil-spiritual-commodified-whats-truth-about-popular-yoga What inspired you to write Selling Yoga? Near the beginning of my graduate school career, I had the opportunity to travel to Rajasthan to research Jain traditions and came upon the Jain Shvetambara Terapanth (a Jain sectarian tradition) and its… Thu, 29 Jan 2015 05:29:35 EST Andrea R. Jain 48c7072f-8c60-4f1d-9ae2-788bbe2d00c9 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/17/coming-out-twice-sexuality-and-gender-islam As scholar Scott Kugle knows well, to be both Muslim and gay means the possibility of having to “come out twice”—with the likely chance of encountering either homophobia or Islamophobia (or both), depending on the context. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:25:19 EDT Susan Henking 496397c0-45b8-4ae5-ab47-77f4b742962c https://religiondispatches.org/2011/10/05/no-i-dont-owe-my-yoga-mat-vivekananda A recent NYT op-ed insists that it was Vivekananda who introduced yoga into the American “national conversation.” But that claim is flat-out wrong. I’m not suggesting that we ignore Vivekananda’s proven significance in the history and development of modern yoga, but the story is much more complex than what Bardach implies. She seems to suggest, after all, that it’s as simple as: Vivekananda introduced yoga to the West, “great minds” loved him, yoga was eventually co-opted by New Age baby-boomers, and it all went downhill from there. Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:35:55 EDT Andrea R. Jain 0d60c41a-dd4d-4617-8e69-b29ce9d35332 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/02/16/spiritualism-and-sex-meet-evangelical-censorship-19th-century-style “It was what I found in the archives that inspired me to write the book—Craddock’s unpublished book manuscripts on everything from ancient sex worship to contemporary marriage reform. And then there was her journal of mystical experiences—a diary so baffling and intense in its combination of spiritualism and sexuality as to demand attention.” Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:27:21 EST Leigh Eric Schmidt 79d40182-18ff-413c-ab58-fd6fbd9e1e07 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/04/05/queering-easter-sisters-perpetual-indulgence-redefine-sainthood An order of queer nuns, founded in San Francisco thirty-one years ago, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is now a full-fledged pastoral and charitable organization, having given away more than a million dollars. They’ve also raised pioneers in LGBT and AIDS/HIV rights to sainthood, creating their own holy calendar. Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:30:58 EDT Susan Henking 2b91f75a-4452-494a-b8d2-5b1790eb0f9a https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/22/christian-punk-meets-american-pop-evangelicals-burbs How did Christianity become so commercial? Is religious punk rock an oxymoron? The author of a new book on suburban evangelicalism and Christian heavy metal shows how Christian youth culture has been commodified and sold to secular audiences. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:56:01 EDT Brittany Shoot 3a18a6b6-b641-4cb3-a62f-319919c18cc2