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One Perfect Day: Selling Gowns to “non-traditional” brides 30 Oct 2012 | 09:00 pm
The industry’s definition of a traditional bride is one who embraces the trappings of Bridezilla culture with enthusiasm, and her less enthusiastic counterpart is, understandably, a problem. When Vows...
One Perfect Day: Messaging of Bridal Magazines 30 Oct 2012 | 04:01 am
What part, then, do bridal magazines play in encouraging the development of this Bridezilla culture, in which wedding obsessions is mandated in all of newly engaged women? The message that the bridal ...
One Perfect Day: What a Wedding Represents 28 Oct 2012 | 09:00 pm
Another quotation from Rebecca Mead, One Perfect Day, on the most important sales item for the wedding industry: “The most significant thing that the wedding industry is selling is fantasy, about the ...
One Perfect Day: What should I register for? 28 Oct 2012 | 01:00 am
In the first chapter of her book One Perfect Day, Rebecca Mead describes an event called “Wedding March on Madison”, in which Madison Avenue retailers invite brides-to-be to a weekend seminar which Pe...
New book: Rebecca Mead, “One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding” 27 Oct 2012 | 10:00 pm
Recently, Elizabeth and I have announced our engagement to our friends and family. On the advice of our priest’s wife (Thanks, Karen!), we have purchased a book by Rebecca Mead, a staff writer from Th...
Deloria on the Christians who conquered native peoples 26 Oct 2012 | 10:00 pm
“Average Christians when hearing of the disasters wreaked on aboriginal peoples by their religion and its adherents are quick to state, ‘But the people who did this were not really Christians.’ In poi...
Deloria on the rupturing of relationship between human and nature 25 Oct 2012 | 10:00 pm
“Part of the alienation of human beings from nature is caused by the action of humans against nature and not as the result of some obscure and corrupted relationship that came into being as a result o...
Deloria on the historical validity of a religion 24 Oct 2012 | 10:00 pm
“The test of the extent to which a religion has a claim to historical validity, therefore, should at least partially involve its identification of the specific location and lands where the religious e...
Deloria on nontemporal theological categories 23 Oct 2012 | 10:00 pm
“In almost every instance in which other religions were considered as invalid, it was because the categories of explanation on which they were judged to be false, were those derived primarily from tem...
Deloria on today’s religious situation 22 Oct 2012 | 10:00 pm
“The religious situation today eloquently reflects the American psyche – we create our own reality and we are absolutely free to do so. This condition, however, suggests that there is no reality and t...
