Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift’s ‘TTPD’: Religious imagery for a spiritually syncretic era
By Kathryn Post and Madeline Macrae — April 23, 2024
(RNS) — ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ speaks of good Samaritans and Jehovah’s Witnesses, altar sacrifices and prophecies.
Ramy Youssef constantly asks if jokes are harmful or helpful. He keeps telling them anyway
By Krysta Fauria — March 21, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In keeping with much of his previous work, “Ramy Youssef: More Feelings” doesn’t shy away from fraught topics, including religion, the upcoming presidential election and the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
From Taylor Swift’s tour to statehouses, witches are blamed for climate of fear
By Heather Greene — June 1, 2023
(RNS) — One historian sees a replay of 17th century moral panics in today’s increasing social media attacks on witches, saying, ‘It is getting weird.’
Former London Fashion Week designer pivots to modest fashion market
By Joseph Hammond — December 22, 2021
(RNS) — After being wrongfully imprisoned for two years in the U.K., Elle B. Mambetov has taken her once famed luxury brand and focused it on modest fashion, aimed at Muslim women.
To hell and back again with Taylor Swift’s ‘All Too Well’
By Peter Manseau — November 29, 2021
(RNS) — The pop star's multiple accounts of a disappointing affair tap into an ancient formula of faith and myth.
5 ‘in real life’ religion and pop culture clashes from 2020
By Roxanne Stone and Emily McFarlan Miller — December 30, 2020
(RNS) — Kanye ran for president. Rihanna faced backlash from Muslims. A French-language film caused many conservative religious people to #CancelNetflix.
Taylor Swift’s ‘witchy’ new album fuels speculation about her interest in the craft
By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 22, 2020
(RNS) — It’s unclear if Swift’s most recent references to witchcraft are simply part of the ‘cottagecore’ aesthetic of her 2020 twin albums or more personal commentary on her spirituality.
Why ‘Cats’ is a musical for our time
By Tara Isabella Burton — January 13, 2020
(RNS) — The earnest shlock and high camp of 'Cats' — what else can we call Taylor Swift playing a feline in a pastiche of Eliot's Anglo-Catholic mysticism? — captures our current state of dread.
Pop quiz: Taylor Swift, or Book of Lamentations?
By Jana Riess — August 8, 2014
"She cries herself to sleep at night, tears soaking on her pillow." Is this a quote from Taylor Swift, or the biblical Book of Lamentations?
Amy Grant’s New Album Releases on May 14
By Jana Riess — May 9, 2013
Grant's new album, "How Mercy Looks from Here," comes out on Tuesday. And it looks pretty darn good from here.
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