Amidst India’s temple revival, cities are being redesigned to reflect Hindu heritage and nationalist ideas, writes Huzaifa Riyaz in Jacobin magazine (Summer). The city of Ayodhya, the centerpiece of the temple revival, is also a model of this attempt by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) “to reshape public space in line with Hindu nationalist […]
Despite its secular origins, AI deeply intertwines with religious narratives, practices, and meaning-making processes, according to an introductory article in a special thematic issue of the journal Religion (July) on this topic. In the introduction to the issue, which offers several case studies on the intersections between this new technology and religion, Boris Rähme (Fondazione […]
Supposedly “the healthiest human on the planet” and “the most biologically measured person in history,” Bryan Johnson now intends to sell his startup, Blueprint (launched in 2021), and to focus on founding a new Don’t Die religion. After selling his web payments company, Braintree, for $800 million in 2013, Johnson split both from his wife […]
