religion
Undivine Intervention: Do We Need Religious Faith to Defend Humanitarian Aid?
What religious-freedom claims mean for the legal future of progressive movements.
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Contagion Is Not the Crisis: COVID-19 Is a Chance to Rethink Stereotypes About Immigrants
Nationalistic racism tells us that migrants infest, infect, and invade the homeland.
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Religious Exemption: Catholic Hospitals Are Barring Transgender Patients from Surgery
These policies and resulting statements, coupled with the reach and growth of Catholic healthcare systems, could make access to gender-confirmation surgery even more difficult.
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In Bad Faith: Hallmark’s Jewish Stereotypes Meet America’s Rising Antisemitism
Hanukkah, as it exists to Hallmark, is just Christmas’s quirky ethnic sidekick.
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The Unbelievers: New Atheism and the Old Boys’ Club
So is new-style atheism the sausage party that media coverage would suggest?
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This Woman’s Work: FKA twigs’s “MAGDALENE” Dissects Female Martyrdom
FKA twigs not only treats her album’s namesake as a source of spiritual strength, but considers how often women are stripped of their agency and their voice—even when they’re the heroine of their own stories.
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Raising Hell: Satanic Feminism’s Eternal Legacy
Activist groups such as W.I.T.C.H. and others show how satanism can be used as a powerful unifying force for political engagement.
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Very Online: Instagram Has a Conversion Therapy Problem
With help from Instagram, they’re able to expand their reach to those vulnerable to their violent teachings.
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Twist of Faith: Q&A With “God Land” Author Lyz Lenz
“Cultural Christianity’s power as moral currency is something society still uses to define who’s good and who’s bad. For women, for people of color especially, how you look, how you dress, how you act shapes how we interpret who’s in and who’s out.”
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What 17th Century Witch Burnings Teach Us About Evangelical Extremism
The descendants of those brought up amid the height of the witch-burning craze who became among the first to colonize settlements like Salem, Massachusetts, continuing the misogynistic and prejudiced witch trials in the United States.
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