https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to occupy wall street en https://religiondispatches.org/2013/02/20/american-buddhism-beyond-search-inner-peace When I showed up, the room at Harvard Divinity School was already overflowing. World-renowned professors were packing the aisles along with undergrads, standing in the doorways, and squeezing in behind furniture. At the front of the room stood Bhikkhu Bodhi—a short, soft-spoken Buddhist monk… Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:34:50 EST Joshua Eaton 9691cd42-640c-4ee9-837a-40441aa0c0d2 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/03/bishop-priest-protester-arrested-trinity-wall-streetoccupy-clash To chants of “We are unstoppable, another world is possible,” a retired Episcopal Bishop led Occupy protestors in climbing over the fence at Duarte Square. Mon, 03 Dec 2012 03:44:25 EST Elizabeth Drescher e9c03984-0af0-4410-a09a-177f27259489 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/20/simon-critchley-atheist-religious-thinker-utopia-fiction-faith Philosopher Simon Critchley on evangelical atheists, the ‘supreme fiction’ in politics or love, and why the debate over whether you believe in a god is massively irrelevant. Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:18:49 EDT Beatrice Marovich 1e45ec18-9506-45a7-850f-53c9a707e3b7 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/09/campaign-about-values-voters-or-justice How the Occupy movement could be Democrats’ salvation. Thu, 09 Aug 2012 07:29:36 EDT Sarah Posner 8a8b4459-6690-4569-ae2e-e08a3fabb41f https://religiondispatches.org/2012/07/26/money-technology-and-silence-churches-conversation-susan-thistlethwaite Liberalism has many strengths. It brought God into the world. It allowed us to value the natural order and value human intellect as a way of thinking theologically. But, liberalism is a philosophy of history as progress and harmony—and that’s untrue to the nature of the Fall. Why I use the term “progressivism” instead is that progressivism is movement-based. Progressives are more communitarian, they’re not as individualistic; they have a far savvier sense that history is struggle, and that the world does not want to be changed. Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:20:29 EDT Candace Chellew-Hodge 7bda127b-e432-4524-b304-91a92d4556c9 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/05/16/steve-jobs-occupywallst-and-usury Steve Jobs invented stuff, and that stuff changed the world. Wed, 16 May 2012 04:20:58 EDT Jay Michaelson beae246f-94e6-4ffa-a190-5d9704579626 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/05/02/may-day-2012-religions-revolutionary-potential Nathan Schneider on “occupying faith.” Wed, 02 May 2012 12:00:07 EDT The Editors a4ee9e13-ec1f-4838-bf0c-69429fad3efc https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/12/occupy-catholics-cardinal-dolan-we-arent-protesting-were-advertising-love The first step of occupying Catholicly is showing up. Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:50:55 EDT Nathan Schneider eb4bcf71-abef-44d2-bc40-56f128ecc554 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/09/when-religion-refuge-scoundrels-ryan-budget-edition Would that it were true that, as Ryan said, “Catholic social teaching is indispensable for officeholders”; Mitt Romney’s description of Ryan’s budget as “marvelous” would no longer be ludicrous. Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:34:21 EDT Daniel C. Maguire 1b7e2a41-feba-4322-8d92-fcf161f00d36 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/03/19/occupys-sacred-mob-and-politics-vagrancy Recent analyses of religion in the 99% Movement tend to begin with a focus simply on pluralism, asking how diverse forms of religious transcendence—particularly in justice-minded congregations—have aligned themselves with the still-growing wave of Occupations. But the intimacy of life in a park or along a sidewalk is causing traditions to do something more than “coexist” plurally. Religions are colluding and combining. Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:11:52 EDT Vincent Gonzalez 29774da4-06b9-4155-a03a-134905669cb8 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/02/14/one-percenters-love Yes, your colleagues would laugh if you went out to protest. Marie Antoinette laughed too, until she found herself smiling up from the bottom of a wicker basket. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:27:18 EST Garret Keizer c4140685-b6b0-4fc2-9744-313ebea01d3b https://religiondispatches.org/2012/01/26/how-anne-frank-turned-occupy Throughout his 32-minute set, Mangum returned more than once to the sad fate of the teenage diarist, and in doing so he created a moment that seemed at once a communal high point of the movement and a peculiarly ominous sing-along, Kumbaya mashed up with catastrophe. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:51:38 EST Peter Manseau ef42bdc3-7d24-43f6-bc87-496687d8c2fb https://religiondispatches.org/2011/12/19/episcopal-church-divided-over-trinitys-denial-occupy If I were CEO of Trinity Wall Street, I’d be alarmed at the idea of the “unspecified use” apparently demanded by the OWS protesters. But, of course, Trinity Wall Street does not have a CEO, it has ministers. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:37:42 EST Elizabeth Drescher 2da760df-59e7-4fe7-aea7-a6a2c39d44ff https://religiondispatches.org/2011/12/15/its-year-protester-would-santa-occupy-how-about-mother-teresa Elsewhere on the interwebs, people have considered which religious figures would or would not be joining the drum circle at their local Occupy encampment, were they alive today. Jesus? Ghandi? But what about other religious figures? A religion-nerdy parlor game… Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:59:03 EST Sarah Morice-Brubaker a73882ed-7f4d-4a8b-8297-fd8877f2fd67 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/12/07/would-gandhi-disband-occupy The Times managed to find a Gandhi scholar who would argue that the greatest hero of radical resistance would endorse the critics of Occupy Wall Street. Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:23:43 EST Ira Chernus 946b4930-2497-44de-91ed-95fc29170e89 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/12/07/biblical-capitalism-tony-perkins-edition Jesus was a businessman? Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:04:43 EST Sarah Posner 49b3e259-c043-4b5d-bed3-b0875c2b75c3 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/12/05/i-was-wrong-about-occupy Thursday morning a dozen occupiers addressed forty or so clergy. We clergy were all somewhat skeptical of the demand for public space. You could hear the ministerial, rabbinical hrumph, hrumph in the room. (Most of us had never occupied Zucotti Park and a downward trend in temperature wasn’t going to improve on that.) But the occupiers edged toward the theological as they articulated a need for communal, inspirational, face-to-face contact in which they could “appear” to one another. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:53:51 EST Donna Schaper 3aa498df-3a15-4915-bc37-3f000c870948 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/11/28/occupy-exile-sacred-space-everywhere People love to stay immune from the connections between the sacred and the profane, holy space and “regular” space, tented space and the well-appointed space of a mansion. They try to tell us that politics and religion never meet. Or that money is “dirty” and therefore can get away with its meanness. Deliverance from these false dichotomies is our greatest need as a country. Money is holy and just and good when used for holy and just and good purposes. It is not “dirty” and therefore the property of those naughty boys of Wall Street. Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:51:51 EST Donna Schaper 0eb1ecc1-6617-4f4d-9727-cf290de1774a https://religiondispatches.org/2011/11/23/many-not-few-anthem-occupy Makana weighed, in an instant, the pros and cons of pissing off the president and possibly torpedoing a flourishing career. Sure, he’s unlikely to be invited to entertain Obama and friends anytime soon, but no one’s dragged him by the hair to the ground, “ nudged” him with a nightstick, or pepper sprayed him at close range. He’s certainly mindful of the difference between his stage and that of the protesters, but Makana sees the same spirit of aloha—a spirituality lost, like so many Hawai’ian protest songs, on many outsiders—as animating even angry dissent with love. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:05:12 EST Elizabeth Drescher 2c31515b-7347-4d76-a5ad-62a48a84e843 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/11/14/revolujah-will-be-performed-reverend-billys-reality-joke In order to restore meaning to the ideas of freedom and community, Rev. Billy exposes their current bankruptcy through a “religious” performance drawn from institutional, theatrical, and cultural realms. But make no mistake, it is real. Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:11:12 EST Nathan Schneider aed1420d-9af9-4765-8c52-634962ebd3c0 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/10/31/uk-church-leader-resigns-over-planned-removal-occupy-protesters-updated Should St. Paul’s Cathedral be responsible to regular worshippers trying to get to Evensong or the protestors who might be modeling the social concerns of Christ? Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:34:18 EDT Daniel Schultz e83cf6d9-f004-4659-9e4a-5d6a91ce8747 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/10/31/swift-boat-veterans-american-jewry-charge-anti-semitism-occupy-wall-street But the ECI is no friend to Israel. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:24:38 EDT Jay Michaelson 7a1847d2-61ab-4cdf-a31a-c96ef3e47f6d https://religiondispatches.org/2011/10/31/occupy-deeper-form-protest Ours is primarily a linear society which rewards building, doing, improving, and growing. It’s no surprise, then, that countercultural movements have tended to emphasize circles: consensus rather than hierarchy, egalitarianism, nuanced notions of ‘progress.’ Does this sound familiar? It should—it’s behind a lot of what observers have noticed about the Occupy movement: that there are no clear goals, no policy prescriptions, no realistic (i.e., incremental) demands. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:03:22 EDT Jay Michaelson 5319e788-7fd8-471f-bad3-beddb6d9cd50 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/10/17/god-dissolves-occupy-movement Saturday’s surge of Occupy Wall Street-themed actions could be a turning point. There’s obviously more to be felt and said about this than any journalistic treatment could hope to engage; nonetheless, four RD contributors, moderated by Senior Editor Sarah Posner, shared their own thoughts about a movement that remains fluid and thrilling and quite literally indescribable. Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:45:53 EDT Nathan Schneider 7845628e-5e78-4b3a-9a59-2ffd0d285710 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/10/14/occupy-judaism-turning-point-american-judaism The organizer behind the Kol Nidre service at Occupy Wall Street says the Jewish establishment has asked Jews to “check our social justice values” at the door. Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:36:22 EDT Sarah Posner 878fca52-9faf-407b-ad5c-5b87db3c185b