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50 results for "Protest movements"

50 results for "Protest movements"

Folkish Heathen of the Far-Right

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Christian Nationalism is not the only religion influencing far-right political movements in the USA. Folkish Heathenry, a “white-only” minority religion, provides symbols, rhetoric, and rituals that shape far-right identity and political action. 

Video: Christian Slavery in the Protestant Atlantic

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Katharine Gerbner, McKnight Land-Grant Professor and Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, discusses how religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Learn more Audio

The Rise of the Christian-Orthodox Church in Post-Soviet Georgia

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On Wednesday, November 3, a resident of the Center, Mariam Goshadze, gave a talk on the role of the Orthodox Church in Post-Soviet Georgia. Although Mariam is a PhD Candidate in African Religions, she was born and raised in the Republic of Georgia and her...

Video: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

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Where do our ideas about how the economy works, and our views on economic policy, come from? Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets, among economists as well as many ordinary citizens, is a form of religion. The...

Video: Peril to Democracy: Racism and Nationalism in America

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The after effects of the 1/6 Insurrection continue to reverberate across America. Since that fateful and disturbing day, pushbacks against the teaching of race in America, abortion rollbacks, and Covid denialism have swept across the country. What has...

Choosing a Vocation: An Essay on Agency

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There were a couple of things Cristina knew for sure. She did not know which path her life would take, but she knew that either she would get married and establish a family or she would lead a (lay) consecrated life devoted to God: There is that clarity...

The Visionary World of Sofía Bassi

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By Mariano Villalba, CSWR Postdoctoral Fellow, Arts and Spirituality. Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey. The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. Although she produced a substantial body of...

Transcendentalism Then—And Now

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By Lawrence Buell , Guest Contributor. Edited by Russell Powell I discovered Transcendentalism as a discontented adolescent, when struggling to countervail an overdose of internalized dutifulness that included redundant Bible-based Sunday school classes...