cult/new religious movements

Having stamped the barcodes of all milk produced at Russkoe Moloko with a red ‘X’ for the past five years owner Vasily Boyko-Veliky has finally explained why: Supermarket barcodes are the mark of the…

When Republicans turn Satanic Panic on their own.

Ridiculously expensive to make and plagued by production disasters.

A struggle between two modern and intertwined mythologies of evil, True Detective ultimately fell back on the easiest of formulas.

We—especially those in academia and the media—have written off religion as divisive, outmoded and irrelevant just as we have trivialized spirituality as frivolous self-indulgence. As a result, our politics are soulless and our candidates’ calls for hope fail to translate into change.

“I was quite shocked upon learning of the relic’s loss,” said former prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh in a rare public statement released days after the disappearance. “As a Buddhist and the one who listed Buddhism as the state religion in the 1993 constitution, I am extremely sad, completely grievous for the loss of the Buddha relics which were a happy, peaceful, prosperous, and holy thing for our respectful country.”

“God has given sooo much information in the Bible about [the end of the world],” Camping said, “and so many proofs, and so many signs, that we know it is absolutely going to happen without any question at all.”

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Tired old Protestant-inflected definitions of “religion” are losing hold in diverse Western nations. And it’s about time.

The surge of enthusiasm about State’s new agenda has too often carried with it the assumption that when the US government decides to engage religion abroad, religious Americans are best equipped to teach us how to do the work.