A Tibetan Couple’s Wedding Photos Go Viral in China
So in recent weeks a photo collection of Tibetan newlyweds Gerong Phuntsok and Dawa Drolma has been going viral across China, and now has begun to trickle out into India and Europe as...
The Myth of Christian America and the Victory of 50s Capitalists
Religion Dispatches has a great story right now on how Christianity got hitched to capitalism in the 1950s–yes, that’s right, the 1950s, not the 1750s or even 1850s, but 1950s–and not for the...
The California dilemma
For anyone who hasn’t been paying attention, the drought situation in California continues to worsen, and the state is beginning to step in with more drastic measures to address the crisis. The latest...
A New Cosmopolitics – Religion Science and Spirit in Dialogue
As anyone who knows me can tell you, science and spirituality are both topics I am deeply fascinated in, and are topics I have written about in my academic practices, as well as...
A Scrapyard of Hindu Puppet Gods
There is something very creepy about the images that Roc Morin captured for his story about puppet designer and artist Ulhas Utkar, who makes many of the major figurines used for religious festivals...
Chinese Atheism and the Political Theology of the Dalai Lama Reincarnation
My latest piece just got published at the State of Formation website. In this piece, I look at some of the recent clashes between the 14th Dalai Lama and the Chinese state, and...
