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Hindu nationalist organization seeks legislative ban on religious conversions
More evidence that "freedom of religion" doesn't mean the same thing everywhere in the world, at least not according to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Bangalore/RSS_demands_ban_on_religious_conversion/article...
Sabrina Tavernise, "Youthful voice stirs challenge to secular Turks" (profile of Hawa Yilmaz), International Herald Tribune (Oct. 14, 2008)
A profile of Hawa Yilmaz, a young Turkish woman who decided as a teenager to begin wearing the hijab, against the wishes of her family and to the disapproval of her friends. She has now b...
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/14/europe/14turkey.php?page=1
Washington Post, "On Faith" series: Stephen R. Prothero (Boston University) debates Barry Lynn (Americans United for Separation of Church and State)
Prothero kicks Lynn's ass, if you ask me. Lynn comes across looking desperate. However, if you check my Diigo annotations, you'll see that in the antepenultimate and penultimate points (P...
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http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/religion_in_school.html
Louis Sahagun, "Armenian clergy worldwide embark on a quest to collect holy oil," Los Angeles Times (Oct. 11, 2008)
A story about the worldwide distribution of "muron," a scented oil believed to have extraordinary spiritual properties.
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http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-beliefs11-2008oct11,0,2307697.story
Religion & the Public Sphere (Social Science Research Council)
A massive source of information on the SSRC's current programs on religion.
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http://programs.ssrc.org/religion
courier-journal.com | Faith
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http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs/faith/2008/09/atheists-and-other-unchurched.html
More atheists are sharing their views | courier-journal | The Courier-Journal
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http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080924/NEWS01/809240787
Holy war strikes India - Asia, World - The Independent
An extremely disturbing short piece on the tremendous surge of violence against Christians by Hindus in Orissa province, where around 20% of the population -- mostly scheduled castes and ...
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/holy-war-strikes-india-955502.html
globeandmail.com: Hutterites challenge post-9/11 security rules (refuse to be photographed for ID cards)
Hutterites refuse to be photographed for driver licenses and are making their case in Canadian court.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081006.whutterite1007/BNStory/National/...
THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM
The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem along with other local Christian leaders expresses its opposition to the mostly-American phenomenon of Christian Zionism.
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http://www.hcef.org/index.cfm/mod/news/id/16/subMod/NewsView/NewsID/1595.cfm
Police: No evidence of hate crime at local mosque
A ten-year-old girl who was standing insode a basement community room at a Dayton mosque was sprayed wtih an aerosol by two men standing outside an open window. Police say there is no evi...
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http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/09/27/ddn092608evacweb.html
Pew Global Attitudes Project: Overview: Unfavorable Views of Jews and Muslims on the Increase in Europe
Bad news on the prejudice front from Europe. Across the continent, unfavorable perceptions of Jews are increasing; attitudes towards Muslims are worsening as well, although not as consist...
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http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=262
Center for America's First Freedom -- newsletter newsfeed
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https://beta.otherinbox.com/mailboxes/42014f18763f28f4a08d03afc41c23578f2a13a33301a39bb4ac7b...
Stephen Prothero, "Belief Unbracketed," Harvard Divinity Bulletin (Winter / Spring 2004), pp. 10f.
Stephen Prothero argues that scholars of religion should be less reticent in talking about their own views. Specifically he compares his own experience in promoting American Jesus with Bo...
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http://www.hds.harvard.edu/news/bulletin/articles/prothero.html
R. Orsi, D. Chidester, P.E. Klassen, and R.M. Smith, responses to Stephen Prothero, "Belief Unbracketed," Harvard Divinity Bulletin (Summer 2004), pp. 16-18
Responses to Steven Prothero's commentary, "Belief Unbracketed," in Harvard Divinity Bulletin (http://snipr.com/3hlwr) by Robert A. Orsi, David Chidester, Pamela E. Klassen, and R. Marie ...
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http://www.hds.harvard.edu/news/bulletin/articles/orsi_et_al.html
"Religious literacy" courses now required in Modesto, CA public schools
More religious knowledge has got to be a good thing, I think. On the other hand, a course like this has got to be fantastically easy to screw up. It would be interesting to study what the...
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/24/eveningnews/main4206426.shtml
"Ceremonial deism," U.S. civil religion, and the law
A Pew Forum backgrounder on the status of (supposedly) religiously-neutral invocations of a deity by government agents.
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http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=335
Steve Padilla, "Former New York Times reporter looks at growth of interfaith movements," Los Angeles Times (Aug. 30, 2008) - on Gustav Niebuhr
Niebuhr (the grandson of the late H. Richard Niebuhr and grandnephew of Reinhold) now teaches at Syracuse. Sounds a little fluffy to me.
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http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-beliefs30-2008aug30,0,189881,full.story
Tony Perry, "Symbolism of the cross widens with judge's ruling in Mt. Soledad case," Los Angeles Times (Sept. 13, 2008)
From the page: "Two years ago, the contentious cross atop the San Diego mountain was deemed part of a war memorial. A recent judicial opinion supports that, saying crosses have significan...
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http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-beliefs13-2008sep13,0,7595462,full.story
Humanists sue as exam agency blocks GCSE | Education | The Guardian
Personally, I think the humanists are way off base here, despite the fact that I'm generally sympathetic to humanist organizations. "Humanism" (the concept being, for one thing, a contemp...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/13/gcses.religion?gusrc=rss
Keep talking or face terrible future, religion summit told - 09 Sep 2008 - Religion and beliefs news - NZ Herald
One authority on interreligious dialogue attests to the concrete social importance for maintaining communication between different faith communities.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=301
EADT - Atheist's bizarre bid to convert Christian
In Suffolk (UK), an avowed atheist engages in a bizarre, prolonged campaign of obscene harrassment (involving excrement both human and canine) in an apparent bid to convince a Christian n...
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http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline
"Muslim Day at Six Flags"
A slightly puffy human-interest story on a recurring event at various Six Flags locations around the country, in which an amphitheater is used as a masjid and halal caterers are brought in.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/religion/chi-six-flags-muslims-25-jul25,0,2161842.story
American Sikh immigrants fear their tradition is slipping away
Many Sikh temples in the U.S. are alarmed at the relative absence of young people (mostly immigrants' children), who don't speak Punjabi and aren't interested in the old-country traditions.
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http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/123/story/533352.html
Building bridges between Jews and Latino Pentecostals
In L.A., a Jewish group has been mounting outreach efforts to Latino Pentecostal congregations and organizations, including a Spanish-language 'Essence of Judaism" course. The piece sugge...
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http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/26141794.html?location_refer=Faith%20+%20Values
Commonweal on Mark Taylor's "After God"
Villanova's Bernard Prusak reviews Mark Taylor's latest book. He is critical, but thoughtful. The review is a very good read.
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http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=2193
Daniel Lazare reviews two new books on religious toleration
I basically am clipping this because I read it and want to remember it, but I think Lazare gets it completely wrong. Not only is his attitude towards religion in general misguided, he doe...
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http://www.alternet.org/stories/78299
New blog on religion in american history [2]
A pretty diverse bunch of academics blogging on religious themes in American history from a variety of perspectives. Worth checking out. The clip is just a taste of the type of material c...
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http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2008/03/review-steven-waldmans-founding-faith.html
New blog on religion in american history
A pretty diverse bunch of academics blogging on religious themes in American history from a variety of perspectives. Worth checking out. The clip is just a taste of the type of material c...
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http://usreligion.blogspot.com
Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, Feb. 28, 2008, "Trends in religion" with Greg Smith of the Pew Forum
Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, Feb. 28, 2008, "Trends in religion" with Greg Smith of the Pew Forum
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http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/433/510027/87773031/WHYY_87773031.mp3
Islamoyankee debates Nazir Khaja at "Faith in Public Life"
Islamoyankee (of Islamicate, a blog I like) and Nazir Khaja of the Islamic Information Service hold a written exchange on the challenges facing contemporary Muslims. I haven't had a chanc...
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http://blog.faithinpubliclife.org/2007/03/faith_in_public_live_dr_nazir.html
David Gonzalez, "For a Master Class on Global Worship, It’s Destination Queens" (NYT, July 2, 2007)
An international seminar on interreligious coexistence and pluralism, based in New York City. I haven't actually read this yet. Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5SFsEzH5t.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/02/nyregion/02citywide.html?pagewanted=all
Map Gallery of Religion in the United States
American Ethnic Geography A Cultural Geography of the United States and Canada
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http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html
Cover Story: Bridging the Cultural Divide - Kent State Magazine Fall 2005
Linked via the Pluralism Project.
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http://www.kent.edu/Magazine/Fall2005/CoverStoryFall2005.cfm
Siddha Yoga Meditation Center--Profile
An example of a Pluralism Project affiliate report for a Yoga center in Florida (submitted by Yudit Greenberg of Rollins College).
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http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/affiliates/greenberg/siddha_index.html
COMING TO YMCA: Kids get forum on ethnicity, religion
Scholastic Press and the NFL organize a program for schoolchildren to educate them about diversity of ethnicity and religion (African, Arab, Hispanic). Key quote: "'I learned a lot of thi...
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http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060127/NEWS0101/601270444/1003/NEWS01
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly | Cover Story | Euro Islam | July 16, 2004
An old report (July 2004) from PBS's Religion and Ethics newsweekly on Islam in Europe, where religious pluralism takes on a very different significance than in the U.S. Interviews repres...
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week746/cover.html
Board Puts Religious Holidays Back On School Calendar: From The Tampa Tribune
Yet another story about last fall's controversy in Hillsborough, FL over religious holidays in the school system. Cf. snurl.com/hillsborough
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http://www.tampatrib.com/MGBVD997TFE.html
Schools proposal disturbs Muslims - baltimoresun.com
Another story about debate over school closings on Muslim holidays. (Is this the time of year when they set public-school schedules or something?)
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/bal-md.calendar27feb27,0,4844129.story
Chicago Tribune | Soul-searching over classes
One of the often-overlooked problems with religious diversity in the U.S.: whose holidays do you cancel school for? Visit snurl.com/hillsborough for a related story.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/lake/chi-0602140243feb14,1,6990334.story
Muslim WakeUp! 'I am a Nigger, and you will just have to put up with my blackness,' Professor Amina Wadud Confronts Her Hecklers in Toronto
Prof. Amina Wadud, whom Mohsin referred to in class on 3/8, gave an incendiary lecture in Toronto a year ago in which she criticized Muslims for "internalized racism" and confessed to dis...
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http://www.muslimwakeup.com/main/archives/2005/02/i_am_a_nigger_a.php
Wiccan veterans want parity
From October 2005, another story about a neo-pagan veteran's fight to have the Wiccan pentacle approved as an "emblem of belief" for use on federally-issued headstones.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/243290_pagan04.html
reviewjournal.com -- News - Sergeant's space left blank
Remember Eck's positive assessment of the military's "no-nonsense" acceptance of religious diversity? She specifically cites the toleration of Wicca. Her perspective is not the last word,...
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http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Mar-02-Thu-2006/news/6149634.html
A Muslim Leader in Brooklyn, Reconciling 2 Worlds - New York Times
Profile of an Egyptian-born imam in Brooklyn.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/nyregion/05imam.html?ei=5094&en=393141e1d285f33f&hp=&ex=11...
Legislature too wrapped up in religion, Jewish leaders say
A Jewish organization in Kentucky has objected to a proposal to strip the state courts of the power to prohibit the display of the Ten Commandments in public spaces. Includes comments fro...
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http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060329/NEWS0101/603290389
Preoccupied with matters of religion and personal faith
A letter from a Jewish organization in Lexington, KY, to the state legislature, criticizing a proposal to bar the state courts from prohibiting the display of the Ten Commandments.
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http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060329/OPINION04/603290449
Bloggernacle Times | Unhireable in Mormon Studies
An ex-Mormon historian now can't get a job in Mormon Studies because Mormons raise all the money for those jobs. This problem is unfortunately not unusual (and not limited to Mormonism). ...
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http://www.bloggernacle.org/?p=358