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50 results for "Protest movements"

50 results for "Protest movements"

Transcendentalism and the Politics of Failure

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By Russell C. Powell A mystery is announced—heralded, really—toward the end of the first episode of Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers’ new three-part documentary film Henry David Thoreau , produced by Ken Burns and Don Henley, which was released...

Our Celestial Railroads

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By John Kaag, Guest Contributor. Edited by Russell C. Powell November in Concord, Massachusetts, is a special kind of madness. I live three miles from the Old Manse, and on a crisp Saturday morning, the tour buses start rolling down Monument Street before...

Practicing Transcendentalism

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By Megan Marshall , Guest Contributor. Edited by Russell Powell On a recent Friday in late September, unseasonably warm as so many New England days are now, I drove up to Salem for the premiere of my friend Scott Wheeler’s trio for violin, cello, and harp...

Video: Spirits of Whiteness in the Age of COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to explore how religion and whiteness are interconnected. Where is religion in a president refusing to wear masks in public? What of whiteness in a governor suing one of its state’s own cities to prevent mask...

Video: The Religion of White Rage

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This panel discussion of "The Religion of White Rage" was held November 2 with the book’s three editors, as part of the Center for the Study of World Religion's series on “Race, Religion, and Nationalism.” This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white...

Video: Farming While Black

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Author, activist, and farmer Leah Penniman discusses the movement for food sovereignty and building a food system based on justice, dignity, and abundance for all members of our community. FULL TRANSCRIPT: Good evening, everyone. Good evening. Good...

Video: Sophia and Sophiology: From Boehme to Schelling

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Jacob Boehme may have been the first to have developed the Old Testament figure of Sophia, Yahweh’s eternal partner of Proverbs 8, into a metaphysical doctrine of divine androgyny. Beginning in his 1809 Freedom Essay, and continuing through to his 1841...

Video: Black Magic Matters: Hoodoo as Ancestral Religion

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Does Black Magic Matter? A brief discussion of the African American traditions known as Hoodoo, Conjure and Rootworking, and practices of divination, spiritual protection and healing. We will discuss the origins of magic in the specific context of slavery...