dis jointed

meat and human and body.  a love for gore, a squick for words.

being unreal

And if I were to type like this?
Well.
Aside from coming across like a pretentious try-hard, I’d be tempting more than one ghost.

Let’s Have a Religion Update

hahahahaha.

belief (again)

been way too scrambled to put together an ace/christianity zine contribution, but had a like, *Bing* yesterday of ~categories

1. things i find comforting to believe, and (so therefore?) do
2. things i would find comforting to believe, if only i could, but i don’t/can’t
3. things i find discouraging to believe, and (so therefore?) don’t
4. things i find discouraging to believe, yet do anyway (and perhaps would like not to?)

[suicide talk]

shinto

finally…letting myself freak out about how much i like shinto.

queenie! …..academia rummage sale?

(to borrow that turn of phrase from solipsistful.)

i have been Hunting books and went back through every queenie comment on this dang wordpress and the library has a whopping one of them. and it’s not requestable or a reference book somehow. D:

time for cor’s religious background

because oops, things not being super clear.

Nancy Leong’s “Negative Identity”

I saw a request for a summary of Leong’s paper, so as I’m reading I will be highlighting pieces I find of note (and discussing where I disagree or recommend further discussion).  Long, but very skimmable I hope.

Unity/Universalizing

Sociologists have identified a common belief in a “religious convergence” during the twentieth century, which posits America as a nation of diverse religious views that nonetheless yield consensus on basic values — what researchers have termed the “common creed.”  Under this theory, people express hostility toward atheists because they disrupt this emerging narrative. (Leong, “Negative Identity,” 1379; bolding mine)

I really love this quote.  I want to eat it and digest it over and over.

space

and portability, and the body as micro-environment