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Deepti Hajela and Jennifer Dobner, "Jewish group wants Mormons to stop proxy baptisms," washingtonpost.com (November 10, 2008)
Via the AP. An advocacy group for Holocaust survivors is mounting a public relations campaign against the inclusion in a LDS genealogical database the names of Jews killed in the Holocaus...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/10/AR2008111001416.html?referre...
Lawrence LeShan, "Why We Love War: And what we can do to prevent it anyway," as published in the Utne Reader (Jan./Feb., 2003)
Editor's introduction: "Portraying humans as basically hating war might actually hinder the important work of deterring it, suggests research psychologist Lawrence LeShan. New psychologic...
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http://www.utne.com/2003-01-01/why-we-love-war.aspx
Stephen Healey, "Fighting words (review of Bruce Lincoln, Holy Terrors)," Christian Century (May 21, 2003)
Webcite link: http://www.webcitation.org/5bwESLQNr
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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_/ai_102750119
Jim Bramlett @ inJesus.com: "Block African witchcraft curses against McCain and Palin NOW!"
An evangelical website urges readers to engage in "spiritual warfare" to "block African witchcraft curses" which are "weaving lazy 8's around McCain's mind" to make him appear "like an id...
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http://www.injesus.com/index.php?module=message&task=view&MID=CB007FA2&GroupID=2A004N9G&labe...
Palin: "I don't know if you'd use the word 'terrorist'" for abortion-clinic bombers
Brian Williams interviews McCain and Palin on the NBC Nightly News, Oct. 23, 2008. There's a lot in this interview, but I'm clipping it mainly because of what it shows about the slipperin...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw5SA7Hks9s
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...
Shaul Magid, "Pariah or Charmed Hero: America's Obsession with Jews and Israel," ReligionDispatches (Oct. 21, 2008)
A thought-provoking piece on the deeper (and darker) meaning of America's unwavering support for Israel.
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http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/international/627/pariah_or_charmed_hero%3A_americ...
Anna Blackshaw, "My Enemy, My Brother (interview with David Gorssman on the conflict betwen Israel and Palestine)," The Sun Magazine (October 2008)
This is only an excerpt from the full interview. Even the excerpt is worth a read though. Grossman is an Israeli writer who manages to combine a powerful and ongoing activism for peace an...
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http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/394/my_enemy_my_brother?utm_medium=email
Anna Blackshaw, "My Enemy, My Brother (interview with David Grossman on the conflict betwen Israel and Palestine)," The Sun Magazine (October 2008)
This is only an excerpt from the full interview. Even the excerpt is worth a read though. Grossman is an Israeli writer who manages to combine a powerful and ongoing activism for peace an...
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http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/394/my_enemy_my_brother
Army Private Subjected to Anti-Semitic Attacks Brutally Beaten By Soldiers
PVT Michael Handman, 20, claims to have been the victim of intense anti-Semitic harrassment (being called "kike" and "fucking Jew," being forced to remove his kippot), and then subsequent...
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http://www.pubrecord.org/religion/362-army-private-subjected-to-anti-semitic-attacks-brutall...
Tavis Smiley interviews Stephen Prothero, author of "Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know -- and Doesn't" (April 6, 2007)
A strong interview from both parties. Prothero claims that widespread American ignorance about religion -- with regard to world religions like Islam and Hinduism, but also familiar forms ...
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http://www-tc.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/rss/media/tavissmiley_20070406a.mp3
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
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
Peace and Justice Support Network (Mennolink.org)
Mennolink.org's online hub for their peace and justice ministry.
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http://peace.mennolink.org
Buddhist Masters and Their Organisations: Somdet Phra Maha Ghosananda
Basic information on Maha Ghosananda and his Dharma center in Phnom Penh, from Buddhanet.net
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http://www.buddhanet.net/masters/maha-gosanada.htm
David Kupfer and Edward Tick, "Like Wandering Ghosts: Edward Tick On How The U.S. Fails Its Returning Soldiers," The Sun Magazine 390 (June 2008)
Edward Tick is the author of "War and the Soul." Archived at webcite: http://www.webcitation.org/5b9I5YN5E
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http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/390/like_wandering_ghosts
Exodus 33.7-11, 17-23: Moses's relations with God
These passages describe Moses's encounters with God in the Tent of Meeting and his thwarted desire to look YHWH in the face.
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http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=90248068
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
Lyndsay Moss, "Pope: Millions are losing their religion and declaring God is dead," The Scotsman (Oct. 6, 2008)
Interesting how Benedict unproblematically draws this connection between religious belief and national identity. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fnews.scotsman....
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http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Pope-Millions-are-losing-.4560395.jp
The ElijahList - Prophetic Words and Prophecies
A website for "endtime overcomer" types across the board. Discovered via a Southern Poverty Law Center article on Joel's Army (http://snipr.com/3sk2l). Haven't explored it much yet.
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http://www.elijahlist.com
SPLCenter.org: 'Arming' for Armageddon (report on "Joel's Army")
A end times organization spun off from a "hyper-charismatic" wing of the Assemblies of God that sees itself as an eschatological army in the making. Pretty intense. Seen on @melmcbride 's...
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http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=964
Bonhoeffer's 1934 sermon at Fanø, Denmark, on peace
I posted parts of this a long time ago, but the original page disappeared. I'm now posting this new link.
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http://changetolink.com/QZBSz
René Girard: Information and Much More from Answers.com
Answers.com page on Girard -- contains a good list of links from Wikipedia.
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http://www.answers.com/rene girard
September 17, 2005 - with René Girard
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http://www.stanford.edu/dept/fren-ital/opinions/girard.html
René Girard
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http://www.denistouret.fr/ideologues/Girard.html
Interview with René Girard
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http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/AP0201/interv.htm
IDEAS- Rene Girard: The Scapegoat
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http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/girard/index.html
Rene Girard on Imitatio Christi
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http://web.archive.org/web/20010122055400/http://www.execpc.com/~paulnue/year_b/girard_imita...
Rene Girard (1923–)
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http://www.theology.ie/thinkers/girard.htm
Christianity Today on torture [4]
David Gushee for the evangelical Christian magazine Christianity Today on five theological grounds for the unequivocal and universal condemnation of torture by Christians, and why, from a...
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/february/23.32.html?start=2
Christianity Today on torture
David Gushee for the evangelical Christian magazine Christianity Today on five theological grounds for the unequivocal and universal condemnation of torture by Christians, and why, from a...
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/february/23.32.html
Thomas Chalmers, baritone, and orchestra, "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (comp. Julia Ward Howe, 1861), recorded 1918 on wax cylinder
Using this in my Religion and Violence class (ever read the lyrics carefully?). Time: 2:59. More information about this recording at the UCSB library site: http://snipr.com/3jlwe
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http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/0000/0587/cusb-cyl0587d.mp3
Euripides, The Bacchae (ca. 406 BCE), full text at Perseus Project (Loeb ed.)
Kind of a clunky interface, but it's all there.
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http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0092
Periaktoi-Bacchae/Περίακτοι-Βάκχες
Once scene from a contemporary performance of Euripides' Bacchae (in Greek), with some singing and choreography. Decent video production; seven minutes long. Considering using this play (...
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5433921167257463547