Post by ignorantianescia on Dec 29, 2014 17:54:14 GMT
2014 has seen the loss of some of the most turbulent dealers in religion, according to Religious Dispatches. Of course, there a few rather more affable figures have also passed away.
religiondispatches.org/snake-handlers-false-messiahs-and-a-few-great-souls-14-who-died-in-2014/
No other end-of-year list can hope to offer such profound juxtapositions: a groundbreaking female Mennonite pastor alongside an “immortalist”; the transcendent wisdom of a civil rights leader alongside one of the most hate-filled religious figures in contemporary memory. But here it is, a connect-the-dots portrait of a powerfully complicated American religious landscape, circa 2014.
religiondispatches.org/snake-handlers-false-messiahs-and-a-few-great-souls-14-who-died-in-2014/
No other end-of-year list can hope to offer such profound juxtapositions: a groundbreaking female Mennonite pastor alongside an “immortalist”; the transcendent wisdom of a civil rights leader alongside one of the most hate-filled religious figures in contemporary memory. But here it is, a connect-the-dots portrait of a powerfully complicated American religious landscape, circa 2014.