Agathe Dorra is a PhD researcher in political aesthetics at King’s College London
Over 20 years ago, as Prime Minister Tony Blair led the UK to join the US invasion of Iraq, pop star George Michael took a principled, public stand against the war. His example put antiwar politics in the limelight.
The MAGA movement changed its strategy after January 6, attempting to seize control of the Republican Party from the bottom up. Finish What We Started follows the Right’s long march through America’s political institutions.
A guide to the digital grimoire.
Vocabulary that might come in handy at the pearly gates.
The comments section is speaking in tongues.
Spiritual needs are more likely to be satiated if the basics — food, clothing, shelter, and employment — are met first.
Send your divine truth to [email protected].
Reza Aslan, one of the foremost scholars of religion in America, talks to Jacobin about Jesus the revolutionary, Palestine, and the continued growth of religion in the world.
The Institute for Christian Socialism is trying to build left-wing solidarity within religious communities. For these Christians, a commitment to socialism is inherent in the Gospel.
The Teamster rank-and-file movement is spreading worker power and making the most of labor’s movement moment, writes longtime Teamsters for a Democratic Union organizer Ken Paff.
George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic developed a curious connection to the works of the apocalyptic cult the Process Church of the Final Judgment.
The Reformation was a fundamental transformation in European society, blending religious disputes with political ideology and class conflict.
Depictions of the Nazarene began nearly the moment cinema did.
For the Soviet Union, atheism became more than the absence of religion. It was an ideology that had to fill the void of religion itself.
There are innumerable cinematic Jesuses, most of them bland, pious, and blue-eyed — until an Italian communist decided to preach the old gospel in a new way.
Postwar Poland saw a huge wave of church-building, within and against the professedly socialist system.
Christian tourists enjoy plenty of God-honoring vacation destinations across the United States.
In the 1960s, a nun in California decided to make contemporary art — and managed to serve both the Vatican and the anti–Vietnam War movement in the process.