Sightings Articles
Intense Addict Shaming: Possibilities and Perils
Is shaming through intensive and sometimes harsh therapy sessions at America’s unlicensed rehab groups cause for concern?Too little researched, these rehab groups are present in Spanish-speaking communities throughout major U.S. cities and embedded w...
February 25, 2016
Closing and Reopening Sanctuaries
“Trending Now…” is a familiar category in pop culture. ...
February 22, 2016
A Disgraced Rabbi Re-Emerges and His Past Is There Waiting for Him
The urge for a reckoning of past wrongs draws victims from the shadows of anonymity....
February 18, 2016
Evolution
Even bigger news this week than U.S. presidential campaigns came from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, a group of over 1000 scientists who have been working to detect ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves.Dennis Overbye, in ...
February 15, 2016
We gon' be alright: Rap and Reggae as Black Sacred Space
Celebrated hip hop rapper Kendrick Lamar and his album, “To Pimp a Butterfly,” are poised to make history at Monday’s 58th Grammy awards. Giving voice to the underside of Black communities in which marginalized persons seek to establish a sense of id...
February 11, 2016
Gay Prayer in Uhuru Park, or Christianity and LGBT Empowerment in Kenya
Christianity and LGBT Empowerment in Kenya ...
February 4, 2016
What Makes 'Religion' News?
January ended with a fifth Sunday, a calendar item that occasionally prompts an appraisal of what gets covered and what public-media assessors of the scene assume their publics will find of interest. While Monday’s Sightings pay close attention to...
February 1, 2016
Rabbi, Rabba, Maharat, Rabbanit: For Orthodox Jewish Women, What's In a Title?
Orthodox women rabbis...
January 28, 2016
The Ups and Downs of Religion
Those (of us) who do sightings of religion in public life are schooled to notice not only the “what” of religious phenomena and happenings, but also the “where” of each....