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Religion
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In music video, seminarian at Belen Jesuit Prep uses rap to tackle coronavirus, global concerns
Read more: In music video, seminarian at Belen Jesuit Prep uses rap to tackle coronavirus, global concernsWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) – A seminarian and faculty member at a South Florida school is taking a creative approach to engaging with students about challenging issues during this time of uncertainty, including the coronavirus pandemic. He made a rap…
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Daniel Defoe’s “The Shortest Way with Dissenters”
Read more: Daniel Defoe’s “The Shortest Way with Dissenters”“The Shortest Way with the Dissenters;” Or, “Proposals for the Establishment of the Church” is a pamphlet by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1702. Defoe was prompted to write the pamphlet by the increased hostility towards Dissenters in the wake…
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Iranian Documentary ‘The Gardener’, on Religion and Baha’i Garden
Read more: Iranian Documentary ‘The Gardener’, on Religion and Baha’i GardenThe Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf opens “The Gardener” with the declaration: “I am an agnostic filmmaker.” From anyone else, this might seem like a simple statement, but not from the complex Mr. Makhmalbaf. In 1974, when he was 17, religious…
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Jesus as a Working Class Hero: Resignifying religion in Spanish music (three examples)
Read more: Jesus as a Working Class Hero: Resignifying religion in Spanish music (three examples)The story of the life and death of Jesus is arguably the most ubiquitous story ever told. Translated to every language, vastly circulated, taught in schools all around the world, conservative groups –except for some exemptions, like Liberation Theology- have…
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The Procession of the Holy Cunt: Feminist Activism during Holy Week in Spain
Read more: The Procession of the Holy Cunt: Feminist Activism during Holy Week in SpainEven though Spain is constitutionally defined as a non-confessional nation, the Catholic Church still holds great power. For example, the Catholic Church is exempt from paying certain taxes, and can reclaim certain buildings as their property. This often creates frictions…
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Santuario Virgen del Rosario
Read more: Santuario Virgen del RosarioIn 2009, clergy from El Oratorio Don Bosco in Italy moved to Polloc, a remote town in Peru near Cajamarca, and began to build a mid-sized cathedral. In conjunction to the construction, they opened up a workshop next to the…
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Abused Goddesses
Read more: Abused GoddessesThe bruised and beaten faces of these beautiful Hindu goddesses have an important point to make — that despite the reverence for women that is a part of Hinduism, India’s most populous religion, the country has become extremely unsafe for…
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Building an Ark for the big climate rally
Read more: Building an Ark for the big climate rallyFour months ago, I was in a multifaith brainstorm for the People’s Climate March when someone said, “What if we had a giant ark?” I think we all had the same reaction: Great … but how do you build an…
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Liberation art from the Church
Read more: Liberation art from the ChurchFrom Black Power to Migrants’ Power BY Robin Cembalest POSTED 01/22/13 As ’60s activist art enters museums, a new generation is creating an iconography of protest for today “There have been the singing nun and the flying nun, but the…