“A Tribute to My Friend, Michael Jackson”
Read a June 26, 2009, Beliefnet column remembering Michael Jackson by Deepak Chopra.
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“The Tragic End of Michael Jackson”
Read a June 26, 2009, commentary on Michael Jackson’s death at The Huffington Post by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the popular writer and a friend of Jackson’s.
“When The Gods Die: Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett Take the ’70s With Them”
Read a June 25, 2009, column at ReligionDispatches.org about the passing of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett by Anthea Butler, a historian of American and African-American religion who specializes in popular culture. In the piece, she describes Jackson as “a pop theologian.”
“Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion”
Written by Janet Reitman. Reitman describes the book as “the first objective modern history of the Church of Scientology.”
“Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief”
Written by Lawrence Wright. Wright gives a history of Scientology in America.
WLGI Radio Bahá’í
WLGI Radio Bahá’í is operated by the Louis G. Gregory Bahá’í Institute in Hemingway, S.C.
“A tribute to Bahai artists around the world”
Watch a YouTube video that showcases Bahá’í performers, including jazz great Dizzy Gillespie.
Oliver Wang
Oliver Wang is an assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Long Beach, and writes about Asian-American cinema and about music, youth culture, popular culture and politics.
“Château Scientology”
Read a Jan. 14, 2008, New Yorker article about Scientology’s outreach to celebrities.