From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Metrodoxy

September 27, 2009

Benjamin Weiner has reviewed Benyamin Cohen’s new book My Jesus Year: A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith over at ReligionDispatches. He criticises the author, an Orthodox Jew of not challenging himself enough during the year of Sundays he spent attending Christian church services, ostensibly to question his faith [...]

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Voodoo LOL’s

September 26, 2009

Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, a lecturer in Religious Studies department at the University of Miami has written a cute piece on academic superstition over at ReligionDispatches.
This little guy was found wedged behind a crash-prone computer in an Art History classroom. Once he was removed the computer was fine, but the Art History staff themselves didn’t [...]

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And yea, when the pigs have been slaughtered the streets shall be filled with rubbish

September 20, 2009

Following our earlier story on Mubarak’s culling of Egypt’s pigs, primarily owned by Coptic Orthodox Christians, recent reports show that the streets of Cairo are filled with uncollected rubbish. This is due to the fact that Zabbaleen, Coptic Christians who go door to door collecting rubbish, used to feed the organic scraps to the pigs [...]

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What Would Jesus Tweet? (WWJT)

September 19, 2009

Continuing our consideration of God and Twitter A. Prof. Mark Goodacre, a New Testament scholar from Duke University, was asked by BigThink “What Would Jesus Tweet?”. He responded that Paul was much more media savvy than Jesus, and draws an analogy between everyone’s favourite micro-blogging service and that 1st/2nd century social medium: the epistle.

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Wii game taps Tibetan Buddhist mythology

September 17, 2009

And I can understand why. I’d totally tap that.
Cursed Mountain, due out in Australia some time this quarter but released in Europe on the 21st of August, takes place on the fictional Himalayan mountain “Chomolonzo”. Deep Silver Vienna (formally Rock Star Vienna) have set their horror story of Scottish mountaineer Eric Simmons’ search for his [...]

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Religious memery

September 16, 2009

Kanyegate didn’t happen than two days ago, and it’s already spawned a healthy internet meme. As with most memes, some of these involves religious themes and imagery.

And because I’m a HUGE fan of Supernatural:

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Green Muslims are OK…

September 15, 2009

Technological integration into worship is always a fascinating topic. I am not just referring to the phenomenon of worshippers commenting on communion via Twitter or Facebook, but the more supposedly mundane aspects such as audio-visual design of the space, and engineering for efficient systems of moving people. Jennifer Hattam at TreeHugger [...]

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Religital welcomes two new contributors!

September 15, 2009

I’m very pleased to introduce two new contributors: Alex and David. Alex’s specialty is religious tourism, and David has focussed on Western esotericism. Both have much broader interests, however, and we’ll get to see some of that in the coming posts. Welcome, guys!

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Scientology, mob rule and “Gov 2.0″

September 14, 2009

I wasn’t following it at the time so this may not be news to anyone, but apparently the Obama administration’s Citizen’s Briefing Book – a collection of policy ideas submitted electronically by American citizens in the lead-up to the Inauguration – showed some interesting results. 44,000 proposals were floated by members of the [...]

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Raëlians promote equal rights for women. Step 1: toplessness

September 13, 2009

Maybe that Raël guy isn’t so bad after all.
Amercian Raëlians have been promoting the GoTopless protest day although, as it was the 23rd of August, I appear to have missed it. Never fear, however, as they’re now gearing up for a world-wide event to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the US constitution’s [...]

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