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The Week contest - New religions

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Devout veganism is now considered a religion. 

11 upstart religions rooted in pop culture

ADRIENNE CREZO | 
With varying degrees of success, zealous fans have translated their love for brands of pop culture into cults, organizations, and federally recognized religious groups

Does anyone still practice the Mayan religion?

BRIAN PALMER |  
If the world ends on Friday, someone should get to take the credit

Praying your way to victory

SAMANTHA ROLLINS |  
America's endorsement of religion's place in sports — and more in our collection of surprising facts and figures

Sikhism in America: A guide to the targeted religion

THE WEEK STAFF | 
The U.S. has had a sizable Sikh population for decades, yet we still have a poor understanding of the peace-oriented religion that originated in India


New England's quiet Christian revival

SLATE | 
Church-planting and music festivals are discreetly bringing religion back to New England, says Ruth Graham at Slate


How Democrats and Republicans are spinning the new pope

JON TERBUSH |  MARCH 13, 2013
Both Left and Right are praising the election of Pope Francis — and putting their own political ideals on full display



Is illegal file sharing a religion?

THE WEEK STAFF |  
Yes... at least according to Sweden, which has officially recognized the piracy-focused Missionary Church of Kopimi



Romney's '47 percent' vs. Obama's 'bitter' clingers: Which is worse?

THE WEEK STAFF |  
Mitt's dismissal of Democrats as tax-dodging moochers is drawing plenty of comparisons to the president's 2008 musing about white voters who "cling to guns or religion"



Is The Master a stealth attack on Scientology?

THE WEEK STAFF |  
The new Paul Thomas Anderson film is enraging Scientologists who see it as a thinly-veiled assault on their religion and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard



Romney’s silence on his faith

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Where are the honest atheists?

DAMON LINKER |
That godlessness might be both true and terrible is something that the new atheists refuse to entertain



The grandiose legacy of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon

THE WEEK STAFF |  
The founding "messiah" of a religion mostly known for massive group weddings is dead. What happens to his multimillion-dollar business empire now?



Will Scientology survive Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' divorce?

THE WEEK STAFF |  
As the press delves into the religion's bizarre practices after the TomKat split, Scientology's most visible spokesman becomes its greatest liability



How our love of gadgets makes us hate each other

D.B. GRADY |  MARCH 11, 2013
Apple and Google evangelists are nearly as zealous as their religious counterparts. And these tribal divisions will only get worse as technology gets better



Robotics: The new religion?

THE WEEK STAFF |  
Futurists talk about the "Singularity" almost mystically, says Robert Geraci in Religion Dispatches — and scientists' promises of robotic salvation may one day rival traditional faiths



Will Romney's religion matter?

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Larry Flynt’s continuing crusade

THE WEEK STAFF | 
Larry Flynt wants to be remembered as more than just a common pornographer.



Can religion make you fat?

THE WEEK STAFF |  
A new study says that churchgoers are nearly twice as likely to be obese in middle age than their less godly counterparts



3 major challenges facing Pope Francis

KEITH WAGSTAFF |  MARCH 13, 2013
The new pope will lead a Roman Catholic Church fighting to stay relevant in the 21st century



Making religion of economics

BRAD DELONG |  
The arguments of market fundamentalists don't fit the facts of our economy. So they ignore the facts



The Week contest: Teen Religion 

THE WEEK STAFF |  
A North Carolina teen has won a legal battle to wear a nose stud to school by arguing she is a member of the "Church of Body Modification." Come up with another new religion teens might use to excuse their behavior
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