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Monumental Failures | Religion Dispatches
Monumental Failures | Religion Dispatches
Last month, Trump continued his crusade to celebrate America’s historical white supremacy by adorning the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with a statue of Christopher Columbus that protestors toppled, dismantled and dumped into Baltimore’s inner harbor in 2020. The first Trump administration provided $300,000 to reconstruct the monument via the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations had the statue reconstructed in 2022, using scans of marble fragments dredged and recovered from the water. The New York
Flowing Against Fascism | Religion Dispatches
Flowing Against Fascism | Religion Dispatches
I watched federal agents disappear three people last week. I watched federal agents abduct three of my neighbors last Wednesday in South Burlington, VT, while members of our community surrounded and shielded them as best we could for as long as we could, law enforcement swarming around us.I watched federal agents, for whom my taxes subsidize salaries and equipment and health insurance and retirement benefits, steal three human beings. They had a warrant, though to the best of my knowledge they refused to produce it. The warrant supposedly justified the deployment of flashbangs and pepper spray
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Ritual | Religion Dispatches
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Ritual | Religion Dispatches
Last month, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio—better known to most of the world as Bad Bunny—brought over one hundred million viewers together in ritual. For those less familiar with his music, Puerto Rico, or ritual theory, this might sound like a strange way of describing the Super Bowl Halftime Show. It’s an annual spectacle, surely. A political platform, often. But a ritual? Yes. A ritual.If you watch closely, this performance/spectacle/political statement is absolutely a ritual: one in which Bad Bunny envelops his audience—at the stadium, in their homes, at bars—in the sensory fullness of
Black Religion Is American Religion | Religion Dispatches
Black Religion Is American Religion | Religion Dispatches
In honor of Black History Month, we’re highlighting some of our favorite pieces from 2025 by or about Black experts, activists, and artists. What an incredible year for Black creativity, insight, and resistance. “I Don’t Do Horror, Ryan Coogler”Black Magic’s Dr. Yvonne Chireau on bringing Hoodoo to lifeYes! There’s a lot of Christianity in Vodou, in Hoodoo. Hollywood really struggles with the complexity of that. And what we’re seeing in Sinners isn’t removed from what the characters’ enslaved ancestors might have done, but it’s also not removed from Christianity. And contemporary Hoodoo
Praying with Frozen Legs | Religion Dispatches
Praying with Frozen Legs | Religion Dispatches
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