“The founders of the ‘Sunday Assembly’ in London say they’re not forming a new church, though they do meet on a Sunday. And they say they’re not trying to create a new religion, but their movement has a growing number of followers around the world.”
Archives for January 1, 2014
Getting Drunk and Making Resolutions on New Year’s Are Religious Acts
As University of Chicago Divinity School professor Wendy Doniger explains, our seemingly secular traditions around January 1 are echoed in religions all over the world.
Was Religion Itself Originally the Product of Psychotropic Drug Use?
The idea – referred to by scholars as the entheogen theory – has certainly been discussed over the past 60 years or so. How much is there to it?
The New Year’s Eve Fireworks You Could Taste And Smell
Giant orange-flavored bubbles, banana-flavored confetti, peach-flavored snow, the scent of strawberries – sure beats the smell of gunpowder, right? London has these two inventive (and crazily-dressed) food scientist-artists to thank.
Peter Gelb On The Met’s HD Cinemacasts
“The business plan I had for it is that it would make a modest profit so from a financial point of view it has exceeded those expectations significantly. But, at the same time, we were very fortunate that it did because if it hadn’t we would be in trouble right now.”
The Stage To Screen Transition Is Just Rough
Reviewers take the movie version of “August: Osage County” to task for, well, theatricality.