Jessica Johnson has taught classes in Anthropology; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Religious Studies throughout the United States. Her book on the rise and fall of Mars Hill Church…
With his new Faith and Freedom Coalition, Ralph Reed hopes to simultaneously bury his past and to make the connection he’s been yearning for: to “address a wider range agenda, social issues plus economic issues.” Will that connection and mutual cries of socialism be enough to wed the two most energetic right-wing movements?
David Walker is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His recent publications treat ritual innovations in spiritualism and stage magic (a subject…
LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College where she teaches a variety of courses on religion and popular culture, ethnographic methods, African…
In the ever more dystopian world of Syfy Channel’s Caprica, teenage girls inhabit robot bodies, or live eternally without bodies at all, human bodies are marked by memories, and all the while there is blood flowing in the virtual streets.
Because women aren’t permitted to be rabbis in the Orthodox Jewish tradition, Sara Hurwitz was given the made-up title Mahara”t upon her ordination. A little while later, after she was quietly given the title rabba, the Orthodox Jewish world responded with condemnations.