Is your God warm and fuzzy or downright angry? It turns out how you envision God’s “personality” can predict your views on politics, science, love and more.
The Four Gods: Strict, Kind, Critical, or Distant
How do you imagine God? Warm and fuzzy? Angry? Far away in a distant cloud? Sociologist Christopher Bader says that no matter what your religion (or lack thereof), your concept of the divine can be boiled down into one of four “personalities.” He says this concept forms the meta-narrative of your life– predicting your politics, your understanding of science, your response to evil and more. From September 2010.
Which God do you choose? Take the God Test here.
Christopher Bader, professor of sociology at Chapman University and author of America’s Four Gods: What We Say About God – and What that Says About Us |
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Ooh, Vah! It’s Jews on Vinyl
Most record collections end up in boxes in basements and attics. Music critic Roger Bennett turned his collection into a book, a website and in 2010, a museum exhibit. “Jews on Vinyl” spans the history of Jewish recorded music from the 40s through the 80s, with a special focus on the bizarre, the kitschy and the obscure. Laura Kwerel sits down with Bennett for an audio tour through Jewish ephemera. From July 2010. |
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| World Religions 101: Judaism
Judaism is one of the world’s oldest monotheistic traditions, tracing its beginnings to more than three thousand years ago. In part two of our series, Stephen Prothero says that for Jews, humanity’s great problem is exile–we have become distant from God, and distant from our community. The way to return is through storytelling and law.
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