Best Religion Tumblrs: 10 Must-Follow Tumblrs On Religion And Spirituality

According to the Huffington Post at least. Several of them are also listed via Tumblr’s spotlight, which would be great if they added to and/or rotated out. There’s no staff or community editor for the subject of religion though, and it would need to be someone with some comparative and experiential knowledge, so I don’t see that happening anytime soon. 

Your thoughts? Which Tumblrs pertaining to religion and spirituality do you recommend?

What I find is that neither the quality or quantity are consistent with many Tumblrs I follow and they don’t always stay “on point” so it’s hard to say definitely, add this one. For the record, I’m not fond of superlatives or awards and their exclusive nature, I just wish it were easier to know what’s out there.

A couple new ones I appreciate (see also > old recs), though I really can’t be bothered with registering for an account at HP so as to comment there:

Bonus > Tumblrs that have (keyword: a lot) of iconography and sacred architecture that may be of interest to students of religion:

What's religion anyway (in tweet)?

  • M: religion's just another word for nothing left to think.
  • K: What about "the kind of religious language *not* allowing strategies, images, or fantasies to arise between yourself & the truth?"
  • M: Not sure what I mean when I say "religion." Seems 99% dependent on context.
  • K: Ah, and therein lies the crux of the problem. Fundamentalists have a narrow definition of religion, God, etc.
  • K: That's what's generally being reacted to (against) - but ironically, in the same vein (narrow def). What about the rest of us?
  • M: have to admit that article confused me. seemed kinda far abstracted from what organized religion does/means.
  • K: Religion is the outward expression of something interior, entirely subjective-problematic in it's only verifiable by experience.
  • M: my question is, how is religion separate from organized religion? individual stuff seems more like faith/spirituality to me.
  • K: Religion's an attempt at shared language, symbols, myth, metaphor, morals, & ritual. Spirituality can be independent of, but is rooted in.
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  • What do atheists mean when they talk about religion? www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/04/13/3476269.htm
  • From the comments, "So an atheist who attacks ‘religion’ is a greater believer than I (who am a Christian) that the word ‘religion’ has a clear and obvious meaning."

Source: twitter.com

In response to some troubling (to me) dialogue in the blogosphere, I’m reflecting on the fine line between spiritual integrity and dogma. Just to be clear, I advocate immersion in one spiritual tradition. And yet, it’s also essential to learn about others. Exclusivity is the harbinger of fear and hate. Whether a ‘believer’ or non-believer, accept that you as an entity are a confluence of diverse belief systems. Please honor and question them all.

Source: twitter.com

Adding to the Spirituality Spotlight

Other than metadata or tags, likes and reblogs (the latter two of which can become very provincial after a while) I’m a bit disillusioned with the tools available to find each other here. I asked for a “Religion & Spirituality” category, which could include atheist and humanist blogs as well, for a long time. Must admit, though they finally obliged, I’ve been unimpressed with the anemic showing on the page.

Since they ask, can we offer some valuable additions? If you reblog, please do so as a link so that responses are provided all in one place. Many thanks.

Replying to my email from June 2011:

Tumblr staff person, Nov-10 10:58 (EST):

Hey Katherine,

I hope by now you’ve found our Spirituality Spotlight page!

http://www.tumblr.com/spotlight/spirituality

We appreciate your suggestion, and welcome any suggestions for blogs you believe would be good candidates for this page. We would love to see it expand.

Thanks!

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Tumblr Support
support@tumblr.com

I have a penchant for “original” curations, more text than not (or else really amazing photos), and hearing the actual voice of the person curating/seeking. This is not meant to be exhaustive, and it’s certainly not representative of as much religious diversity as I know is out there. But here are a few I like:

Note: Volume—don’t assault my dash please—is a significant criterion for me, as is topic relevance; and, if I left you out it’s not because I don’t love you…I do! It’s quite possible I just forgot or you never post or you mostly reblog or you only post links or your Tumblr just self-imploded (e.g., crypte.tumblr.com) or any number of things.

Please do educate me on other Tumblrs not on this list or not in the following pane to the right here ➙

Moreover, these are mostly English-language blogs. Let’s get more linguistic diversity in this category too if we can. I will add Tumblrs as I become aware of them.

Thank you.