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How Orthodox Christianity Became the Spiritual Home of White ...
WEBNov 30, 2016 · It is, in light of so much of the modern Orthodox church’s relationship with the far-right, highly likely. It is this relationship that has, at least in part, propelled Orthodoxy into the position of “go-to religion” for the white supremacist movement that would prefer to be known as the “ “—not just in the United States, but around ...
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WEBSep 9, 2024 · Religion Dispatches | Religion Dispatches. Historian Matthew Stewart Upends Widespread Belief that 19th Century U.S. Christianity Was On ‘The Right Side of History’. Democrats Have Seized the Narrative Frame From the GOP, But Can They Find a Better Story to Tell About an Inclusive, Pluralist US? Will Iowa’s Abortion Ban Respect Religious ...
Is Putin a 'Real' Christian? To Understand This Conflict We Need to …
WEBMar 15, 2022 · Sarah Riccardi-Swartz and Robert Saler. Sarah Riccardi-Swartz is a postdoctoral fellow in the Luce-Funded Recovering Truth: Religion, Journalism, and Democracy in a Post-Truth Era project in the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. Her work is also supported by her participation as Senior Fellow in the “Orthodoxy and Human Rights” project, sponsored by ...
Dominion Theology, Christian Reconstructionism, and the New …
WEBAug 30, 2011 · In the current discussion about dominionism, and whether it is an invention of paranoid “leftists” or an actual theological system with political implications, worth understanding in its own right, there is a conflation of two groups that (while similar in some respects) are also quite different from each other: Christian Reconstructionism and the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR).
What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’? - Religion Dispatches
WEBFeb 15, 2011 · With the swing to the Right of the 1950s, American conservatives began to deploy “Judeo-Christian” in the fight against “Godless Communism.”. Senator Barry Goldwater contrasted “Judeo-Christian understandings” with “the communist projection of man as a producing, consuming animal to be used and discarded.”. Since then, “Judeo ...
A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation
WEBMay 23, 2024 · The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is one of the most important Christian religious and political movements of our time. To see this one need look no further than the role of NAR leaders in the electoral campaigns of Donald Trump and Trump-aligned figures, from school boards to statewide elected offices, and as a dynamic part of the Christian Right.
The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel
WEBJul 28, 2009 · The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel. Many of the notes sounded by the eclectic soul-seekers of the New Age in the 1960s were sounded by the Romantics in the early nineteenth century. You might think of the idealization of Nature, of the upbeat and dancing portrait of human embodiment, human …
As Psychedelics Experience a Renaissance, Emory’s New Center for ...
WEBNov 10, 2022 · For years, in addition to writing about it numerous times for RD, I’ve included a section on psychedelics and religious experience in my Introduction to Religion course.When I first began to teach on the topic, my students, for the most part, approached the suggestion that certain drugs may occasion experiences that resemble experiences we deem ‘religious’ with skepticism.
A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012
WEBOct 5, 2012 · A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012 | Religion Dispatches. A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012. On September 13, when word came that my friend, the , had died at the age of 91, I remembered a self-description he loved to put out. He said that he came from a long line of “dirt farmers, renegades ...
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