https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to crossfit en https://religiondispatches.org/2020/10/22/survival-crossfittest-after-schism-over-racism-can-fitness-empire-shed-its-culture This weekend, Oct. 23-25th, marks the end of the 2020 CrossFit Games season, with ten finalists traveling to Aromas, California to test their fitness in a multi-day competition. This has undoubtedly been the strangest season for CrossFit athletes competing in… Thu, 22 Oct 2020 02:07:36 EDT Cody Musselman 77ed8e80-996b-438d-b85d-0abcaf75f01b https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/28/holey-holey-holey-problem-new-study-valuing-religion-12-trillion-year Does religious activity really account for 7 percent of the U.S. GDP? Wed, 28 Sep 2016 03:57:54 EDT Michael Schulson 1f5009be-c84f-4e8a-bf7d-b8bd3c7917e5 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/02/22/surprisingly-short-history-popular-yoga Last month, a yoga class at the University of Ottawa that was cancelled amid accusations of cultural appropriation made a quiet return to the class schedule. The controversy initially erupted in November when a yoga instructor received an email from… Mon, 22 Feb 2016 04:02:57 EST Andrea R. Jain, Michelle Goldberg be761169-442e-4d5a-b9a3-886cec185000 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/03/paleo-more-fad-diet-boyd-eatons-plan-return-eden Thirty years ago, S. Boyd Eaton laid out the foundation for the Paleo diet in a brief article for The New England Journal of Medicine, which he co-authored with the anthropologist Melvin Konner. Eaton and Konner’s argument was seductively simple… Sun, 03 Jan 2016 02:41:06 EST Michael Schulson 448c9d06-2f0f-46b5-9b8f-35b83d508608 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/08/praise-failure-defining-religion-such-good-idea Recently, the New York Times’ religion writer appeared to throw up his hands in despair at trying to fix on a definition of religion—since the word seemed to cover everything from Pope Francis’ latest encyclical to CrossFit. As Mark Oppenheimer… Tue, 08 Dec 2015 11:56:27 EST Ivan Strenski 79e42a14-d424-412d-8919-1939d9d11ef8 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/03/it-job-religion-journalists-define-religion Weighing in on historian Damon Linker’s suggestion that the Times’ Mark Oppenheimer has just written himself out of a job. Thu, 03 Dec 2015 02:33:37 EST Ann Taves 089de05f-8ef8-45dc-885d-b4de2f8fffc0 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/21/mister-rogers-radical-pacifist-neighborhood Michael Long’s new book, Peaceful Neighbor, dares to place Mister Rogers in his social, historical, and political context. Tue, 21 Jul 2015 02:57:27 EDT Sarah Morice-Brubaker cbc6efbd-09c7-4b4f-bf52-8738e6915228