Saved by Keely Adler
Is Religion Violent?
When we throw our hands up at religion and flatten its role in our lives, societies, and institutions, we allow hegemonic power to go unchecked.
Religiously Blonde • How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future
The common definition of religion is fraught and can hardly capture the full range and complexities of faiths, spiritualities, and traditions all over the world. Religion itself is an imperialist construct, one that still orients us towards a Western (read: predominantly Christian) understanding of faith. We cannot just apply our rubric of religion... See more
Religiously Blonde • The Pitfalls of Believing in Separation of Church and State
That contrast makes the basic case for the self: modern peoples think of ourselves as selves and pursue immanent contentment in part because other ways of thinking about ourselves and our purposes seem to us prone to slip into religious violence.