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In Praise of Capital

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Amy Levin:  Marching down Lafayette yesterday, surrounded by hundreds of #occupywallstreet protesters, I experienced what many in my shoes might call a “secular spirituality,” as we ritually chanted in exhilarated unison. “We are the 99%”–or as my cohorts and I chanted it, “you are the 99%”–occupied the street–as–stage, sending our message with powerful frequency to hundreds of passerbys. The 99% is powerful; sheer numbers matter – but chant only works insofar as the 99% become self-aware of their own 99% identity. The power then becomes contingent on a type of identification, a recognition of the self within a greater shared collectivity. Isn’t this how some define religion? Continue Reading →

Daily Links

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Our very own Jo Piazza writes for the Wall Street Journal this week about how one New York synagogue is using the tactics of a political campaign adviser to increase its congregation size.

“The best declaration of conservative principles since the Sharon Statement signed at Bill Buckley’s home in 1960.”  Americans for a Conservative President has a winning list of principles–free markets, small government and God–taken straight out of the Buckley’s time.  The only thing missing from this new campaign’s list is Communism.

Zenit’s Director has been asked to resign, reportedly because the Legionaries of Christ, the group that sponsors the Catholic news service, wasn’t particularly pleased with Jesus Colina’s independence. Colina, who’s headed the service since 1997, has expressed dissatisfaction with the Legionaries lack of financial transparency and the way they’ve managed the sex abuse case of Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, their founder.

Don’t forget to check frequencies daily, a joint project of The Immanent Frame and Killing the Buddha!  Today they have original art and Paul Christopher Johnson on spirituality through espresso.

The Guardian‘s mapped Anders Breivik’s media consumption.  It’s gorgeous and scary and fascinating.

Give it Away Now:  Wait, you mean “We Don’t Give Out Foreign Aid to Make People Like Us?”  If you conflate the idea of foreign aid with various religious concepts of charity, it makes sense.  Unless you conflate foreign aid with war, of course. Continue Reading →

Our Daily Links, Back in the Saddle Edition!

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Whew! It was a long, hot, wet, ground shakin’ August here in New York.  But we’re back!

See our fall reading schedule here!

Tonight and this weekend at Dorothy Strelsin Theater, 312 West 36th Street at 8 pm, see two plays, Dictionary of the Khazars and Dirty Paki Lingerie, followed by a panel of journalists and academics in discussion.  Panelists include Jeremy Walton, Jo Piazza, Orit Avishai, and Cantor Elizabeth Sacks. Here’s information about the theater.

Abu Dhabi Gallup asked around and found that “Religion does Not Color Views About Violence.”  A particular gem from the poll: nearly half of those in the US and Canada see military attacks on civilians as sometimes justified.

Mel Gibson’s penance for years of anti-Semitism?  Producing a movie about the Jewish hero Judah Maccabee.  (h/t Angela Zito)

I can’t wait to see what Frequencies, a “collaborative geneology of spirituality” curated by Kathryn Lofton and John Lardas Modern (and produced by The Immanent Frame and Killing the Buddha) are going to come up with for 9/11!  The project  offers a new piece of writing and artwork each day and has so far featured, among others, Peter Manseau on “This American Life,” and Amy Hollywood on “Enthusiasm.”  Collect all 100 here.

 

More evidence that the organized religious world is splitting across the LGBT rights divide. Continue Reading →