Religion Remixed Archives - Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/category/opinion/columns/tara-isabella-burton/ Driving essential conversation about how religion and beliefs shape us and our world. Thu, 08 Apr 2021 17:11:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://religionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Favicon-100x100.png Religion Remixed Archives - Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/category/opinion/columns/tara-isabella-burton/ 32 32 If a Dr. Seuss book offends us, why not pluck it out? https://religionnews.com/2021/04/08/if-a-dr-seuss-book-offends-us-why-not-pluck-it-out/ https://religionnews.com/2021/04/08/if-a-dr-seuss-book-offends-us-why-not-pluck-it-out/#respond Thu, 08 Apr 2021 17:03:56 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3890964 (RNS) — 'Canceling' problematic media properties provides us with a way to talk about the complicated nature of desire.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2021/04/08/if-a-dr-seuss-book-offends-us-why-not-pluck-it-out/feed/ 0 Mr. Potato Head becomes woke capitalism’s hot potato https://religionnews.com/2021/03/02/mr-potato-head-becomes-woke-capitalisms-hot-potato/ https://religionnews.com/2021/03/02/mr-potato-head-becomes-woke-capitalisms-hot-potato/#respond Tue, 02 Mar 2021 18:26:41 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3884091 (RNS) — The drama over Potato Head’s gender is a reminder that the 'culture wars' are now profitable.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2021/03/02/mr-potato-head-becomes-woke-capitalisms-hot-potato/feed/ 0 How QAnon infiltrated wellness culture on its way to the Capitol https://religionnews.com/2021/01/29/how-qanon-infiltrated-wellness-culture-on-its-way-to-the-capitol/ https://religionnews.com/2021/01/29/how-qanon-infiltrated-wellness-culture-on-its-way-to-the-capitol/#respond Fri, 29 Jan 2021 20:20:54 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3876617 (RNS) — The distance between MAGA reactionaries and Goopsters in yoga pants may seem wide, but they share a distrust of institutions and often choose intuition over reason.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2021/01/29/how-qanon-infiltrated-wellness-culture-on-its-way-to-the-capitol/feed/ 0 Jordan Peterson: The RBG of the young, white and hyper-online https://religionnews.com/2020/12/03/jordan-peterson-the-rbg-of-the-young-white-and-hyper-online/ https://religionnews.com/2020/12/03/jordan-peterson-the-rbg-of-the-young-white-and-hyper-online/#respond Thu, 03 Dec 2020 19:30:32 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3865727 (RNS) — Few of his fans, one imagines, are guided by his ‘rules for life.’ Instead they idealize Peterson himself, a shield against the insidious forces of the social-justice-industrial-complex.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2020/12/03/jordan-peterson-the-rbg-of-the-young-white-and-hyper-online/feed/ 0 Conservative Catholics, Trump and the existential longing to be the ‘heroes’ of our age https://religionnews.com/2020/11/03/heroes-of-the-fourth-turning-will-arbery-catholics-donald-trump/ https://religionnews.com/2020/11/03/heroes-of-the-fourth-turning-will-arbery-catholics-donald-trump/#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2020 21:59:05 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3858993 NEW YORK (RNS) — In Will Arbery’s Pulitzer-nominated play, ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning,’ the only thing worse than our present age being the harbinger of the end of the world is the notion that it doesn’t matter at all.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2020/11/03/heroes-of-the-fourth-turning-will-arbery-catholics-donald-trump/feed/ 0 Did RBG beat Trump in cosmic court? https://religionnews.com/2020/10/04/did-rbg-beat-trump-in-cosmic-court/ https://religionnews.com/2020/10/04/did-rbg-beat-trump-in-cosmic-court/#respond Sun, 04 Oct 2020 19:32:48 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3854107 (RNS) — As social justice takes on the character of a religion proper, it requires demigods like Ginsburg. It’s a valorization that threatens to rob her, and us, of her humanity.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2020/10/04/did-rbg-beat-trump-in-cosmic-court/feed/ 0 Yoga’s ‘father in the West’ still defining our spirituality and celebrity 100 years later https://religionnews.com/2020/09/16/yogas-father-in-the-west-still-defines-our-spirituality-and-celebrity-100-years-later/ https://religionnews.com/2020/09/16/yogas-father-in-the-west-still-defines-our-spirituality-and-celebrity-100-years-later/#respond Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:28:18 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3850070 (RNS) — Pioneering a vision of wellness in which spirituality and self-help converge, Yogananda created a new model for pop spirituality.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2020/09/16/yogas-father-in-the-west-still-defines-our-spirituality-and-celebrity-100-years-later/feed/ 0 Kanye West, Christian chaos candidate, trumps the Trump model https://religionnews.com/2020/08/18/kanye-west-christian-chaos-candidate-out-trumps-the-president/ https://religionnews.com/2020/08/18/kanye-west-christian-chaos-candidate-out-trumps-the-president/#respond Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:27:27 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3843547 (RNS) — Kanye’s presidential campaign may tell us as much about our spiritual disillusionment as it does his mental health.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2020/08/18/kanye-west-christian-chaos-candidate-out-trumps-the-president/feed/ 0 Don’t be fooled by QAnon’s post-apocalyptic fury. It’s really spiritual hunger. https://religionnews.com/2020/07/21/dont-be-fooled-by-q-anons-post-apocalyptic-doom-its-really-spiritual-hunger/ https://religionnews.com/2020/07/21/dont-be-fooled-by-q-anons-post-apocalyptic-doom-its-really-spiritual-hunger/#respond Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:26:33 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3839351 (RNS) — Followers of the online Q and white supremacism yearn for a world in which everything makes sense and where they at last have a role to play. 

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2020/07/21/dont-be-fooled-by-q-anons-post-apocalyptic-doom-its-really-spiritual-hunger/feed/ 0 How wearing masks and masculinity got confused https://religionnews.com/2020/07/09/how-wearing-masks-and-masculinity-got-confused/ https://religionnews.com/2020/07/09/how-wearing-masks-and-masculinity-got-confused/#respond Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:35:08 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3836889 (RNS) — Some of the most robust arguments against masks have also come from some of the political and religious right’s paragons of performative masculinity.

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