Life in the Shrine
The fearful narratives surrounding West African shrines and the ‘wives of the deity’ obscure the reality of these long-standing institutions, writes Julie Jenkins. With photographs by Dana Romanoff. Continue Reading →
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The Art of Living in Modern India
Jake Halpern goes to India: It seems like a romantic and clichéd notion, but I was very earnestly itching to get the hell out of dodge and get a bit more spiritual. Continue Reading →
Iyad Ag-Ghali, 2012: Running Out of Road
By Joe McKnight Part 4 of a four part series comparing the epic lives of Sundiata, medieval Malian ruler, and Iyad Ag0Ghali, a power player and leader in Malian rebel movements for nearly 40 years. Continue Reading →
Iyad: An Epic of Modern Mali
Part three of Joe McKnight‘s series on the epic lives of Sundiata, medieval Malian ruler, and Iyad ag-Ghali, a power player and leader in Malian rebel movements for nearly forty years. Continue Reading →
San Pedro’s Key
Special for The Revealer: Alexander Zaitchik travels to Ecuador where he experiences the highs and lows of a local healing ritual. “Somewhere in the darkness I heard the first of the night’s retching noises.” Continue Reading →
San Pedro's Key
Special for The Revealer: Alexander Zaitchik travels to Ecuador where he experiences the highs and lows of a local healing ritual. “Somewhere in the darkness I heard the first of the night’s retching noises.” Continue Reading →
Iyad: An Epic of Modern Mali
Childhood and Exile: Rebel Politics and the Politics of Hunger. This is the second in a series comparing the epic lives of Sundiata, medieval Malian ruler, and Iyad ag-Ghali, a power player and leader in Malian rebel movements for nearly forty years. Continue Reading →
Iyad: An Epic of Modern Mali
By Joe McKnight One name kept repeating itself: Iyad ag-Ghali, leader of Ansar Dine. It seems to me his story, and his political role, may be one that ends up profoundly altering Mali’s future. Continue Reading →
A Theory of Ethical Blasphemy
By Austin Dacey The claims of the believer and the claims of the blasphemer, so-called, are symmetrical.The value motivating us to protect the believer’s beliefs from desecration is the very same value manifested by the desecrator: freedom of conscience. Continue Reading →
A Spiritual Defense of “Impiety”
by Austin Dacey The trick with monotheisms is that competition comes not just from neighboring gods, but even from our own ideas about the One. Continue Reading →