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| The influential political scientist Samuel P. Huntington theorized about the "clash of civilizations." The journalist and poet Eliza Griswold takes on the same topic in a much more visceral way: she traveled through the "torrid zone" to see, smell, taste and write about it. Her book "The Tenth Parallel" is a fascinating journey along the latitude line in Africa and Asia where Christianit ... more |
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| The influential political scientist Samuel P. Huntington theorized about the "clash of civilizations." The journalist and poet Eliza Griswold takes on the same topic in a much more visceral way: she traveled through the "torrid zone" to see, smell, taste and write about it. Her book "The Tenth Parallel" is a fascinating journey along the latitude line in Africa and Asia where Christianity and Isla ... more |
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A substantial and growing number of Americans say that Barack Obama is a Muslim, while the proportion saying he is a Christian has declined. More than a year and a half into his presidency, a plurality of the public says they do not know what religion Obama follows.
A new national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that nearly one-in-five Americans (18%) now say Obama is a Muslim, up f ... more |
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With the midterm elections coming up in the fall, the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life has released a new Web feature, "Religion & Politics 2010," which provides a variety of election resources for reporters, including:
- Poll analysis and survey reports on topics related to the midterm elections
- Links to news stories about religion-related issues ... more
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With the midterm elections coming up in the fall, the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life has released a new Web feature, "Religion & Politics 2010," which provides a variety of election resources for reporters, including:
- Poll analysis and survey reports on topics related to the midterm elections
- Links to news stories about religion-related issues ... more
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Only 21% of Americans think that rulings by judges in recent years regarding religion in public life have correctly interpreted the U.S. Constitution, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Sixty-four percent (64%) of adults believe the judges' rulings have been more anti-religious than the Founding Fathers intended. Fifteen percent (15%) aren't sure.
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| Jeffrey Herf, a leading scholar in the field, offers the most extensive examination to date of Nazi propaganda activities targeting Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust. He draws extensively on previously unused and little-known archival resources, including the shocking transcriptions of the Axis Broadcasts in Arabic radio programs, which convey a strongly an ... more |
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| On April 19, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, a case that will determine whether a public institution can refuse to officially recognize a religiously based organization that prevents those who do not share its religious and moral values from becoming voting members. The case arose in 2004 when a chapter of the Christian Legal Society (C ... more |
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| Populist parties of the European right have gained prominence in recent years. Much of their message derives from hostility to the supposedly alien influence of Muslim populations. Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician who in October 2009 successfully appealed against a home office decision to bar him from Britain, denounces the "Islamification" of Europe. The Danish People's party calls for the ... more |
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| With their distinctive appearance and religious practices, Sikh-Americans often find themselves at the center of workplace discrimination cases and other controversies involving their religious rights. And while Sikh groups have worked to carve out legal protections for the community's religious practices, their efforts have not always met with success. In California, for example, Gov. Arnold ... more |
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| Source: Google News | | By: Elaine Ganley | | Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 |
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France's immigration minister said Wednesday that he wants the wearing of Muslim veils that cover the face and body to be grounds for denying citizenship and long-term residence.
Eric Besson said he planned to take "concrete measures" regarding such veils, which are worn by a small minority of women in France but have become the object of a parliamentary inquiry into whether a ban shoul ... more |
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More than eight years after former President George W. Bush unveiled his faith-based initiative to make it easier for religious groups to receive government funding to provide social services, the policy continues to draw broad public support. But as was the case when Bush first announced the initiative, many Americans express concerns about blurring the lines between church and state.
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| A new poll finds that more than 80 percent of Israeli Jews support freedom of religion. Some 83 percent of Israeli Jews said they support "ensuring freedom of religion and conscience," while another 60 percent back the separation of religion and state, according to a poll released Monday by Hiddush, a new Israeli organization supporting religious freedom and equality. Only 9 percent of fer ... more |
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Despite resorting to demonization and dated paradigms, Max Blumenthal's muckraking first book traces the fascinating history of the religious right and its web of gothic and aggressive conspiracy theories—making a convincing case that the Republican Party has been "shattered" by a right-wing religious movement.
In his first book, released just la ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Max Blumenthal | | Friday September 11th, 2009 |
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| Over the last year, award-winning journalist and videographer Max Blumenthal has been behind some of the most sensational (and funniest) exposes of Republican machinations. Whether it was his revelation that Sarah Palin was "anointed" by a Kenyan priest famous for casting out witches, or his confronting Republican congressional leaders and John McCain's family at the GOP convention about the p ... more |
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When he took over the White House in January 2009, President Barack Obama quickly adopted much of the "faith-based initiative" put into place by his predecessor, President George W. Bush. The initiative was designed to expand the role of faith-based and community organizations in the delivery of social services.
But a new study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Jou ... more |
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| On Feb. 5, 2009, two weeks after taking office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order establishing the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The new office retains the basic administrative structure of President George W. Bush's White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. The central White House office and satellite offices in 12 governmen ... more |
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This summative report reflects the work of a special project of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. Formed in 2002 with a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to the Research Foundation of the State University of New York, the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy was created to engage and inform government, religious and civic leaders about the role of fai ... more |
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WASHINGTON—If he wasn't the most obscure person in the room, Barack Obama was close: a young, freshman state senator with few connections outside of Chicago.
"When people went around the room and said who they were, you could probably figure out why they were there," said the Rev. Jim Wallis, a well-known progressive preacher and activist.
Among those seated at the table were for ... more |
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| The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, established by President Barack Obama, plans to expand partnerships between the government and faith-based and community organizations for the delivery of social services. What lessons can be learned from the preceding eight years of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under President George W. Bush? W ... more |
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| Source: Pew Forum | | By: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life | | Thursday April 30th, 2009 |
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| Amid intense public debate over the use of torture against suspected terrorists, an analysis by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life of a new survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press illustrates differences in the views of four major religious traditions in the U.S. about whether torture of suspected terrorists can be justified. Differences in o ... more |
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| Source: Pew Forum | | By: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life | | Thursday April 30th, 2009 |
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| Most Catholics who have heard about the issue support the University of Notre Dame's decision to invite President Barack Obama to speak and receive an honorary degree at its May 17 commencement, even though he supports abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research. But a new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life also finds a deep division on thi ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Steven P. Miller | | Monday April 20th, 2009 |
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While spreading the gospel around the world through his signature crusades, internationally renowned evangelist Billy Graham maintained a visible and controversial presence in his native South, a region that underwent substantial political and economic change in the latter half of the twentieth century. In this period Graham was alternately a desegregating crusader in Alabama, Sunb ... more |
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Most Americans think President Obama's pledge to "seek a new way forward" with the Muslim world is an important goal, even as nearly half hold negative views about Islam and a sizable number say that even mainstream adherents to the religion encourage violence against non-Muslims, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
There is still a broad lack of familiarity with the world ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge | | Thursday April 2nd, 2009 |
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Two Economist writers show how and why religion is booming around the world and reveal its vast effects on the global economy, politics, and more.
On the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging worldwide. From Russia to Turkey to India, nations that swore off faith in the last century—or even tried to stamp it out—are now run by avowedly religious leade ... more |
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| Source: Reuters | | By: Dan Williams | | Tuesday March 24th, 2009 |
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Following are facts about how the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) accommodate Orthodox Jews.
* Most Israeli Jews are drafted into the IDF at 18, with men serving for three years and women for two. Ultra-Orthodox Jews commonly invoke exemptions allowing them to study in seminaries.
* The IDF chaplaincy is run by Orthodox rabbis, though it also attends to conscripts f ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Juan Cole | | Monday March 23rd, 2009 |
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| NPR's Morning Edition says, "Juan Cole, author of Engaging the Muslim World, wants readers to reconsider what they think they know about countries like Saudi Arabia. It's widely known that most of the Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudis. Cole says some people abuse that fact to fuel suspicion of the Saudi government, or of the Saudi strain of Islam known ... more |
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| Source: Pew Forum | | By: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life | | Friday March 6th, 2009 |
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| The economic stimulus legislation signed into law on Feb. 17, 2009, by President Barack Obama authorizes state governments to fund the "modernization, renovation and repair" of buildings on public and private college and university campuses. But the provision prevents these schools from using this funding to improve buildings that are "used for sectarian instruction or religious worship," or those ... more |
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| Source: Pew Forum | | By: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life | | Friday February 20th, 2009 |
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Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December 2008 for the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life to look at the impact of religious voters in the 2008 election.
John Green, a senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew Forum, discussed how a ... more |
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| Source: Examiner.com | | By: Kurt Barstow | | Thursday February 12th, 2009 |
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| The 16th President of the United States is noted both for steering the country through its most difficult period as well as for both his noble rhetoric and earthy aphorisms. Below is a selection of quotes from the man in celebration of his 200th birthday. GOD: It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. Sir, my c ... more |
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Speakers:
Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations
Timothy Samuel Shah, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Religion and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
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Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program and Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations ... more |
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As the Obama administration establishes its foreign policy, it must grapple with a strategy for U.S. relations with Iran, which has continued a controversial nuclear program and launched a satellite into orbit this week.
Weekend Edition Saturday has invited several guests to talk about Iran, share their advice for President Obama and examine the impact of the Iranian Revolution, which broug ... more |
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| On January 20, 2009, the United States will inaugurate Barack Obama, the country's first African American president. In anticipation of citizens' efforts to mark this historic time around the country, the American Folklife Center will be collecting audio and video recordings of sermons and orations that comment on the significance of the inauguration of 2009. It is expected that such sermo ... more |
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Following are the remarks of President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, as provided by the White House.
Good morning. I want to thank the Co-Chairs of this breakfast, Representatives Heath Shuler and Vernon Ehlers. I'd also like to thank Tony Blair for coming today, as well as our Vice President, Joe Biden, members of my Cabinet, members of Congress, clergy, friends, ... more |
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| Source: Pew Forum | | By: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life | | Thursday January 15th, 2009 |
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Nearly half the nation's presidents have been affiliated with the Episcopal or Presbyterian churches. John F. Kennedy remains the only Catholic to have held the nation's highest office. Only three U.S. presidents — Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson — have been unaffiliated with a specific religious tradition.
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The Faith-Based and Community Initiative:
A Final Report to the Armies of Compassion
The White House
December 2008
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Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) is a "Think Tank Without Walls" connecting the research and action of more than 600 scholars, advocates, and activists seeking to make the United States a more responsible global partner. It is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies.
FPIF provides timely analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs and recommends policy alternatives. We bel ... more |
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| The sunset prayer had just ended, and Sheik Ahmad al-Jilani was already calling his class to order. When the latecomers slipped into the front row, Jilani nodded at them briskly. "Young men," he began, "who can tell me why we do jihad?" The members of the class were still new and a bit shy. Jilani clasped his hands and smiled encouragingly. Before him, sitting in school desks, were a dozen youn ... more |
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| The most dramatic scene in the movie "Schindler's List" takes place not in a cattle car or a gas chamber, but in an office. As the accountant Itzhak Stern's typewriter clatters in the background, the names of the fortunate workers whom Oskar Schindler would ultimately save appear on a blank page that fills the screen. Finally Stern raises the stack of papers and says: "The list is life. Al ... more |
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| Even before the emergence of the civil rights movement with black churches at its center, African American religion and progressive politics were assumed to be inextricably intertwined. In her new book, Barbara Savage counters this assumption with the story of a highly diversified religious community whose debates over engagement in the struggle for racial equality were as vigorous as they were pe ... more |
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| A recent survey conducted for Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner finds that young white evangelical Christians are less supportive of John McCain for president than their older counterparts. Although McCain maintains a solid winning margin among white evangelical Christians on the ballot, white evangelicals ages 18-29 are less supportive of his candidacy and express ... more |
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| The Pew Forum recently posted two new resources that may be useful in your reporting on religion and the election. New charts tracking Pew Research Center surveys show trends in support of Barack Obama and John McCain by white evangelicals, Catholics, black Protestants and other religious groups. The charts will be updated as new surveys are released in the coming months. ... more |
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| Activate '08 Voter's Guide: A look at the candidates and the issues. ... more |
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| Some Americans are having a change of heart about mixing religion and politics. A new survey finds a narrow majority of the public saying that churches and other houses of worship should keep out of political matters and not express their views on day-to-day social and political matters. For a decade, majorities of Americans had voiced support for religious institutions speaking out on such issues ... more |
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| Source: NPR | | Friday August 22nd, 2008 |
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| Scholar Randall Balmer explores the interplay between religion and American politics in his book, God in the White House. Balmer is a professor of religious history at Barnard College, and the editor-at-large for Christianity Today. ... more |
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| Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's resource for the 2008 presidential campaign. ... more |
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| As John McCain and Barack Obama get close to choosing their running mates, they are weighing numerous factors: region (do they help carry a pivotal state?), expertise (strong where the nominee is weak?) and ideology (do they help with independents? Or the base of the party?). This year, to a degree rarely seen, they are also assessing the prospective running mate's religious background or appe ... more |
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For more than 20 years, Islamists in Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt and other Muslim countries have campaigned for popular support by presenting sharia, or Islamic law, as the antidote to authoritarian rule, injustice and repression.
Westerners often wonder how Muslims possibly can believe such claims. We recall the Taliban blowing up ancient statues and preventing girls from going to school in ... more |
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| More than half of Christians in America believe religious freedom should be a high priority in crafting U.S. foreign policy, according to a recent Wilson Research Strategies survey commissioned by Open Doors USA. ... more |
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| A special resource for journalists, compiled by USC. ... more |
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| From the Synopsis: "While many studies of religion in the West have focused on the region's diversity, freedom, and individualism, Todd M. Kerstetter brings together the three most glaring exceptions to those rules to explore the boundaries of tolerance as enforced by society and the U.S. government." God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land examines how ... more |
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| B&N Synopsis: Black Religion explores the complexity of the black spiritual imagination using the autobiographies of three prominent religious leaders. Looking at Malcolm X's journey from Christianity to Islam, social parasite to "race man," libertine to ascetic, Hart delves into the spiritual dimensions of Malcolm X's life. Hart then examines t ... more |
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| Source: Barnes & Noble | | By: Selcuk Sirin, Michelle Fine | | Friday June 27th, 2008 |
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| From the Publisher: Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent "war on terror," growing up Muslim in the U.S. has become a far more challenging task for young people. They must contend with popular cultural representations of Muslim-men-as-terrorists and Muslim-women-as-oppressed, the suspicious gaze of peers, teachers, and strange ... more |
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| From the Mission Statement: The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is dedicated to ensuring that all members of the United States Armed Forces fully receive the Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom to which they and all Americans are entitled by virtue of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. ... more |
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| Source: Gallup | | Monday June 16th, 2008 |
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| John McCain beats Barack Obama in a general-election trial heat by a 47% to 42% margin among voters who say religion is an important part of their daily lives, while Obama wins by an overwhelming 58% to 33% margin among voters who say religion is not an important part of their lives. ... more |
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Faith will be front and center during two first-time events that are part of a lineup of activities the Democratic National Convention Committee plans to hold in Denver during the Aug. 25-28 convention.
While the convention takes place at the Pepsi Center, the Colorado Convention Center will host a series of Democratic caucuses and councils, including a "People of Faith" council.
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| Henry Institute National Survey on Religion and Public Life publishes findings on religious voters in 2008. ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Patrick Cockburn | | Thursday June 12th, 2008 |
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| Amazon Product Description: Time magazine listed him as one of its "100 People Who Shape Our World." Newsweek featured him on its cover under the headline "How Al-Sadr May Control U.S. Fate in Iraq." Paul Bremer denounced him as a "Bolshevik Islamist" and ordered that he be captured "dead or alive." Who is Muqtada al ... more |
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Which words do you use when talking about terrorism?
The US government recently put out a series of recommendations for talking about terror.
The stated goal: "[To] avoid helping the terrorists by inflating the religious bases and glamorous appeal of their ideology."
Specifically the recommendations warn against using words like "jihadist", "mujahideen" or Islamic theological ... more |
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The former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has unveiled his Faith Foundation in New York.
In this special edition of Reporting Religion, Dan Damon talks exclusively to Tony Blair about his mission to promote respect, friendship and understanding between the major religious faiths.
The organisation which is named the 'Tony Blair Faith Foundation' will attempt to bring religi ... more |
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| Source: The Nation | | By: Jeff Sharlet | | Friday May 30th, 2008 |
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| "I feel safer down here among the Christian savages along Narragansett Bay than I do among the savage Christians of Massachusetts Bay Colony," wrote Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, shortly after his exile from polite society in 1635. Williams was one of the great heretics of what Europeans deemed a new world, not least because he bothered to learn the languages and customs of those he ... more |
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| Source: Faith 2008 | | By: Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs | | Friday May 30th, 2008 |
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| The 2008 presidential election is in full swing, and religious issues are playing a central role. The Faith 2008 project tracks references to faith in the speeches and statements of the leading candidates of both parties. Users can sort by date, candidate, and topic area. ... more |
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| Source: BBC | | Tuesday May 27th, 2008 |
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| In an interview with the Today programme, the Dalai Lama said if western countries feel they can have more influence over China diplomatically, then they should not boycott the Beijing Olympics. ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Andrew G. Bostom | | Friday May 23rd, 2008 |
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| From a review by Steven T. Katz, Director, Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University: "The publication of the present anthology...is a ground breaking event of major scholarly, cultural, and political significance....Everyone interested in Jewish and Islamic history, as well as current events in the Middle East should read this book--and soon ... more |
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| B&N Synopsis: For all the attention to radical political Islam, there is little awareness that the democratically elected government of Turkey has an Islamic flavor. This book places within historical context the rise of the Islamic political party now governing Turkey and examines the implications of its rule for that country and its relations with Eur ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Matt Taibi | | Friday May 16th, 2008 |
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| Amazon Product Description: Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature of George Bush's America in the post-9/11 era and ended up vomiting demons in an evangelical church in Texas, riding the streets of Baghdad in an American convoy to nowhere, searching for phantom fighter jets in Congress, a ... more |
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| Are Americans concerned that at times Christians are too involved in politcs? The majority are not. Download a powerpoint to see the details with additional breakouts of Protestants, conservatives, and others. Also on this site: Do Southern Baptist pastors agree that at times Christians are too involved in politcs? Download a powerpoint to see how SBC pastors compare to Am ... more |
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| A variety of religious voices have been prominent in the 2008 presidential campaign to date, and to the surprise of many observers, these voices include religious activists with liberal and progressive perspectives. They describe a growing movement focused on justice and the common good. Where did this movement come from, and how might it influence this year's election? ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Noah Feldman | | Monday May 5th, 2008 |
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| From Leslie H. Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and former "New York Times" columnist : In Feldman's fascinating intellectual journey through history, Islamic law, and modern politics, you will discover the power of 'justice.' It is both the driving force behind efforts in the Arab world to democratize, constitutional ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Mark Juergensmeyer | | Monday May 5th, 2008 |
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Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to the Christian militia to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. Building on his groundbreaking 1992 book, The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State, Mark Juergensm ... more |
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| Source: NPR | | Thursday May 1st, 2008 |
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Since al-Qaida terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, a debate has raged about the nature and leadership of the Muslim faith.
Some characterize Islam as a religion dominated by repressive extremists who justify the use of violence to achieve their objectives. Others maintain that the majority of the world's more than 1 billion Muslims are moderates who reject such radi ... more |
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| A wide-ranging analysis of the relationship between religion and politics in American public life. ... more |
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| Source: PBS | | Wednesday April 23rd, 2008 |
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| Bill Moyers talks with Martha Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at University of Chicago, about church and state, and her newest book, Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality. ... more |
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| Source: | | By: University of Virginia | | Thursday April 17th, 2008 |
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| America's founders believed religious freedom to be the "first liberty." The content of this site is concerned with issues of religious freedom in the U.S. and around the world. Whether you seek information about religious freedom in a particular nation, or are interested in theoretical and historical issues, you will find significant resources to help you pursue your inquiry. ... more |
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A passionate and often hilarious wake-up call to Christians to reject the "Right Reverends" who have stolen Jesus from Christianity and replaced His true message with "ChristianityLite," an easy, feel-good scheme that promises salvation without sacrifice. "We're mad as Heaven, and we're not going to take it anymore!" declares historian Robert McElvaine in this passionate and oft ... more |
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| Source: PBS | | By: Religion & Ethics Newsweekly | | Thursday April 17th, 2008 |
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DEBORAH POTTER, guest anchor: Benedict XVI heads to the U.S. this coming week (April 15-20) for his first visit here since being elected pope three years ago. He'll be spending a total of five days in Washington, D.C. and New York. The Vatican released a video message from Benedict urging Americans to pray for the trip: Pope BENEDICT XVI: I am very much looking forward to being with ... more |
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"A wise man adheres not to his religion, because it was that of his ancestors," a smooth-tongued mullah says to a tongue-tied American in Royall Tyler's 1797 novel "The Algerine Captive." The American, a luckless New Englander named Updike Underhill, had been sold into slavery among Muslims after Barbary pirates captured the ship on which he served as a surgeon. At the hands of his captors, ... more |
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| "Robert McElvaine reveals with startling clarity that much of the religious establishment in America has become like the religious establishment that betrayed Jesus: lusting for dollars and fame, obsessed with dubious doctrines and emotional slogans, all the while showing little of the concern for the poor or the oppressed that Jesus commanded. He powerfully argues that Christians must reverse the ... more |
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| On Friday (April 18), Benedict travels to New York, where he will address the United Nations General Assembly. The UN event was his original reason for coming to the US, and many experts believe that speech could be the most important of his trip. Kim Lawton takes a look at the unique role the pope and the Vatican play on the world stage. ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Christine Wicker | | Thursday April 17th, 2008 |
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Diana Butler Bass, author of Christianity for the Rest of Us
"With careful analysis, Wicker reveals the spiritual downturn in the Religious Right, how it has lost its hold over contemporary America and what hope that offers the rest of us." Spencer Burke, Creator of TheOOZE.com and Author of "A Heretic's Guide To Eternity"
"Finally a book that brings it all together, statisti ... more |
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| Source: | | By: BYU International Center for Law and Religion Studies | | Tuesday April 15th, 2008 |
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| Source: | | By: Rothger Johnson & Lyons LLP | | Tuesday April 15th, 2008 |
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The Religious Liberty Archive is an extensive repository of valuable information and a useful resource for anyone seeking information about state and federal laws pertaining to religious freedom in the United States. View other Religious Liberty cases, commentaries, federal statutes, state constitutions, and important historical materials relevant to religious freedom in the United States ... more |
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| Source: PBS | | By: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | | Friday March 28th, 2008 |
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| Senator Barack Obama this week gave what many are calling the most important speech on race in America since Martin Luther King, Jr. Obama made the speech after weeks of controversy surrounding remarks made over the years by his longtime pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr. Here, an assortment of reactions. ... more |
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| Source: Politico | | By: Andrew Glass | | Thursday March 27th, 2008 |
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Divisive preachers are nothing new in the annals of American politics. From time to time, they have upended presidential contests and bedeviled presidents. Two examples come to mind in tandem with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's longtime mentor.
They are the Rev. Samuel Burchard (1812-1891), whose slur "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion," uttered two weeks before t ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Steven M. Tipton | | Wednesday March 26th, 2008 |
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| From Martin Marty: "Tipton's rich, revelatory study of conflict and crisis in the United Methodist Church at the heart of mainline Protestantism enables us to grasp the place of churches in the American polis, and judge their political moves and moral advocacy, as no nonpartisan has done to date. With a gift for finding the issues behind the issues, thi ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Pico Iyer | | Wednesday March 26th, 2008 |
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| From Publishers Weekly: This is a brilliant pairing of writer and subject. Iyer has known the Dalai Lama, spiritual and political leader of Tibet, for more than 30 years, thanks to a long-ago connection between the writer's father, an Oxford don born in India, and a young Dalai Lama. And so the acute global observer Iyer, a travel writer, essayist and n ... more |
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| Theos is a public theology think tank which exists to undertake research and provide commentary on social and political arrangements. It aims to impact public opinion about the role of Christianity in society. ... more |
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Barnes & Noble synopsis: The new edition of Steve Bruce's Fundamentalism grapples with the combination of social strains and religious ideas that have produced an explosion of fundamentalist activity in the wake of 9/11.
In a direct and punchy style, the new edition of his book investigates what lies behind the actions of Al-Qaeda, suicide bo ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Steven Waldman | | Wednesday March 19th, 2008 |
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| Publishers Weekly review: Starred Review. Various American evangelicals have claimed the founding fathers as believing and practicing Protestants who intended America to be a Christian nation. Secularists, on the other hand, see in the same historical record evidence that the founders were often Deists at best. Both views are grossly oversimplified, argues ... more |
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| During every election cycle, many religious congregations find themselves wondering what role, if any, they can play in the political process. Can a minister, rabbi, imam or other member of the clergy endorse a candidate from the pulpit or speak on political issues of interest to voters? Is a church or other house of worship legally permitted to register voters or distribute voter guides? Answers ... more |
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| Source: PBS | | By: Religion & Ethics Newsweekly | | Thursday March 6th, 2008 |
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| With major primaries coming up this week (March 4), Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been competing for faith-based voters. But for Obama, this was a week of new religious controversy on several fronts. ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im | | Monday February 25th, 2008 |
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| What should be the place of Shari'a—Islamic religious law—in predominantly Muslim societies of the world? In this ambitious and topical book, a Muslim scholar and human rights activist envisions a positive and sustainable role for Shari'a, based on a profound rethinking of the relationship between religion and the secular state in all societies. ... more |
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| Source: | | By: AAAS | | Thursday February 14th, 2008 |
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AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) facilitates communication between scientific and religious communities. The program builds on AAAS's long-standing commitment to relate scientific knowledge and technological development to the purposes and concerns of society at large.
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| Source: Godtube | | Friday February 8th, 2008 |
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| Godtube.com was recently featured on CNN's "The Situation Room" as one of the new outlets being used by presidential candidates this year. Along with a way for candidates to get their messages out and address the issues, it is also being used to poll Christians on the internet about what they think is important and who they want to support in the upcoming election. ... more |
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| From Library Journal: Religion has always been a part of the political subtext in the United States, but it is now a defining fault line, with Democratic and Republican leaders undertaking partisan use of faith. Domke and Coe, both in communication programs at universities, use texts of presidential speeches and other documents to show how politicians ... more |
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| A celebration of diversity, Young Jewish and Left weaves queer culture, Jewish Arab history, secular Yiddishkeit, anti-racist analysis, and religious/spiritual traditions into a multi-layered tapestry of Leftist politics. Personal experiences from many of today's leading Jewish activists reframe the possibilities of Jewish identity. It presents a ... more |
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From the site:
Welcome to the Jesus in 2008 Presidential Nominating and Platform Convention!
Just as Democrats and Republicans meet every four years to chose candidates for President and Vice President, and to build political platforms declaring where they stand on important issues, we are here to do the same – and to invite Americans to join ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: E.J. Dionne | | Monday January 28th, 2008 |
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Susannah Heschel, author of "Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus" : E. J. Dionne gives us a thoughtful and nuanced exploration of Christianity's contributions to American politics. Critical of the exclusionary politics of both the Left and the Right, he calls for a new bond between religious conservatives and progressives rooted in our shared moral values and inspired by the wonde ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Jacques Berlinerblau | | Friday January 25th, 2008 |
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This book uniquely combines the author s expertise as a biblical scholar with his canny perception of the American political scene in a volatile presidential election year. Events move quickly and unpredictably, but this kind of analysis may prove useful for a long time to come. --J. Philip Wogaman, author of From the Eye of the Storm: A Pastor to the President Speaks Out, and former ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Randall Balmer | | Friday January 25th, 2008 |
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Book Description How did we go from John F. Kennedy declaring that religion should play no role in the elections to Bush saying, "I believe that God wants me to be president"? Historian Randall Balmer takes us on a tour of presidential religiosity in the last half of the twentieth century—from Kennedy's 1960 speech that proposed an almost absolute wall between American poli ... more |
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Geneva, Switzerland, 21 January 2008 – The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Georgetown University, launched today the Islam and the West: Annual Report on the State of Dialogue. This first of its kind report is a systematic and thorough overview of how Muslim and Western societies perceive and relate to each other at the political, social, economic and cultural levels. The re ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Sarah Posner | | Thursday January 17th, 2008 |
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Book Description from Amazon: Keenly observed and meticulously reported, "God's Profits" examines the unholy alliance between a new breed of corrupt televangelists and the Republican Party, which is eagerly courting "values voters" in the nation's largest megachurches.
Author Sarah Posner exposes the activities of Kenneth Copeland, John Hagee, Rod Parsley, T.D. Jakes, and other poli ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Zachary Karabell | | Monday January 7th, 2008 |
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| "The clash between Muslims, Christians, and Jews dominates the news these days, but as Zachary Karabell highlights, there is more to the relationship between these three faiths than violence. In a book that sweeps the reader across fourteen centuries from the birth of Islam to present-day Dubai, he tells the forgotten stories of coexistence and cooperation. Peace Be upon You reminds us of the poss ... more |
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| The greatest threat in the post-Cold War world, says Douglas Johnston, is the prospective marriage of religious extremism with weapons of mass destruction. Yet the U.S. spends most of its time, resources, and weapons fighting the symptoms of this threat, not the cause. The diplomacy of the future, he is showing, must engage religion as part of the strategic solution to global conflicts. ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Martha Nussbaum | | Wednesday January 2nd, 2008 |
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| From Publishers Weekly: In this engrossing history of the religion clauses of the First Amendment, Nussbaum (Cultivating Humanity) makes a strong, thoroughgoing case for America as a haven of religious liberty for believers of all stripes. Beginning with an illuminating rehabilitation of Rhode Island founder Roger Williams as America's earliest de ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Walter Russell Mead | | Monday December 17th, 2007 |
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"Persuasively optimistic . . . he knows more theology and church than do most public intellectuals, and more Anglo-American history than do many of the more theologically learned; this makes for an interesting combination."
-American Heritage "Entertaining . . ."
-The Economist "Walter Mead's new book is both delightful and outrageous: delightful in his misc ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: John DiIulio Jr. | | Monday December 17th, 2007 |
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"Do you know if you are going to heaven?" Shortly after being appointed the first Director of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives--the "faith czar"--John J. DiIulio Jr. was asked this question. Suddenly DiIulio, a Catholic Democrat who pioneered programs for inner-city children, was acutely aware that he was no longer a private citizen who might have humored the television ... more |
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The coming presidential election in South Korea on Dec. 19 is drawing attention to the growing presence of Christianity in a country that as recently as 1960 had fewer than a million Christians. The odds-on favorite in the race, Lee Myung-bak of the conservative Grand National Party, is a leader in one of South Korea's largest churches, Somang Presbyterian Church. Lee, a former mayor of Seo ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Neil Kressel | | Thursday December 13th, 2007 |
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rom Publishers Weekly
Are some religions, doctrines and practices more apt to inspire hatred and extremism than others? Are people who commit evil acts in the name of their faith carrying out or corrupting the true message of their religion? What sorts of people are most prone to extremism? Psychologist Kressel, of William Paterson University, attempts to answer these and other questions in ... more |
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| Human Events gives voice to the great conservative thinkers of our era -- Robert Novak, Michelle Malkin, L. Brent Bozell, Terence Jeffrey, Bruce Bartlett, Thomas Sowell, David Limbaugh, Oliver North, Pat Buchanan and many more. ... more |
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Earlier this month, Turkey threatened to curtail U.S. military access to Turkish bases and recalled its ambassador from Washington for consultations. These actions came in response to the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee's approval of a resolution asserting that the Turkish massacre of Armenians nearly a century ago constitutes genocide. Compounding these tensions, and despite strong ob ... more |
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Introduction and Summary
Section I - Religion and Public Life
Section II - Religion and Politics
Section III - Religion and Science
Section IV - Religious Beliefs
About the Survey
Topline Questionnaire Introduction and Summary The relationship between religion and politics is a controversial one. While the public remains mo ... more |
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BRIARCLIFF MANOR - At a time when presidential candidates of both parties are hustling to win over religious voters, Sen. Hillary Clinton is dominating all religious groups in the Democratic world, while Rudy Giuliani is doing well with all Republican groups - except evangelicals.
Will Pat Robertson's surprising endorsement of Giuliani help?
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As the races for the 2008 presidential nominations heat up, two recent surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press make it possible to examine how the candidates in both political parties are faring among a variety of religious groups. The parties' front-runners, Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, sit at or near the top of the list of preferred candidates amo ... more |
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News headlines bombard us almost daily with examples of conflict between the Muslim world and the West, whether the war in Iraq, the search for al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, or efforts to stop Iran's nuclear program. In Europe, long running tensions over whether to admit Turkey to the European Union and how to integrate and assimilate the continent's growing Muslim minorities ha ... more |
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| From Publishers Weekly: McLaren, a leader in the emerging church, issues a salvo of arguments for "radical hope" in the face of profound dilemmas. The prolific author and pastor identifies the earth's "four deep dysfunctions" that have created a "suicide machine": crises in prosperity, equity, security and spirituality. "What could change," he asks, "if ... more |
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| Source: Forum18 | | Friday October 26th, 2007 |
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| Forum 18 is an instrument for promoting the implementation of Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and concentrates on serious and obvious breaches of religious freedom, and particularly on situations where the lives and welfare of individual people or groups are being threatened and where the right to gather around one's faith is being hindered. ... more |
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| Sojourners Magazine is the mouthpiece of Sojourners, whose mission is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world. ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Dinesh D' Souza | | Tuesday October 23rd, 2007 |
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Is Christianity obsolete? Can an intelligent, educated person really believe the Bible? Or do the atheists have it right? Has Christianity been disproven by science, debunked as a force for good, and discredited as a guide to morality? Bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza (What's So Great About America) looks at Christianity with a questioning eye, but treats atheists with equal skepticism ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Francisco Goldman | | Wednesday October 3rd, 2007 |
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| From Publishers Weekly: Novelist Goldman (The Divine Husband, etc.) pursues in his first nonfiction book the infamous murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi, the Guatemalan human rights leader murdered after the release of his multivolume report on the genocidal terror campaign led by the army in the 1980s and '90s, in wh ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Peter Irons | | Monday September 24th, 2007 |
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From Publishers Weekly Despite Irons's title, Mike Newdow, who challenged the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, says, "People... think this is against God. And it's not.... It's those who believe in equality versus those who don't." But his opponents, and the other defendants in the seven cases concerning the separation of church and state that civil liberti ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Mark Lilla | | Monday September 17th, 2007 |
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From Publishers Weekly This searching history of western thinking about the relationship between religion and politics was inspired not by 9/11, but by Nazi Germany, where, says University of Chicago professor Lilla (The Reckless Mind), politics and religion were horrifyingly intertwined. To explain the emergence of Nazism's political theology, Lilla reaches back to the early modern ... more |
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| One Vote Under God attempts to provide a comprehensive, interactive portrait of the ways in which faith has been invoked in the race for the White House in 2008. ... more |
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Welcome to the First Amendment Center's Web site, featuring comprehensive research coverage of key First Amendment issues and topics, daily First Amendment news, a unique First Amendment Library and guest analyses by respected legal specialists.
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WASHINGTON — Sixty-five percent of Americans believe that the nation's founders intended the U.S. to be a Christian nation and 55% believe that the Constitution establishes a Christian nation, according to the "State of the First Amendment 2007" national survey released today by the First Amendment Center.
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| Source: Reuters | | By: Staff | | Tuesday September 11th, 2007 |
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Sept 11 (Reuters) - Buddhist monks in army-ruled Myanmar are threatening to shun the military unless the junta apologises for a crackdown on monks who joined anti-government protests last week, media reports said on Tuesday. Here is some background on monk activism in three Buddhist majority countries in Asia.* MYANMAR: -- BUDDHIST POPULATION: 89 percent (38/47 million)* ... more |
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| Source: Amazon | | By: Hanna Rosin | | Friday September 7th, 2007 |
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| From Publishers Weekly: Envisioned by its founder as a "Christian equivalent of the Ivy League," Patrick Henry College positions itself as a training ground for God's cultural soldiers to take on the secular mainstream; at the seven-year-old Virginia school for evangelicals, religion and political journalist Rosin reports, girls are warned ... more |
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| So far religion is not proving to be a clear-cut positive in the 2008 presidential campaign. The candidates viewed by voters as the least religious among the leading contenders are the current frontrunners for the Democratic and Republican nominations – Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, respectively. On the other hand, the candidate seen as far and away the most religious – Mitt Romney – is ... more |
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| Source: Amazon.com | | By: D. Michael Lindsay | | Wednesday August 29th, 2007 |
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| From Publishers Weekly: "Lindsay, a sociologist at Rice University who has previously worked with pollster George Gallup Jr., looks at the rise of evangelical Christian influence in the spheres of power of American public life: political, intellectual, cultural and economic. Based on interviews with 360 leaders from these spheres, including two former presidents, as well as a command of what every ... more |
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| Source: Amazon.com | | By: Ruth R. Wisse | | Monday August 27th, 2007 |
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| This survey of Jewish history highlights the political aspect of Jewish experience, beginning with the observation that in the Hebrew Bible, Jewish power came through military heroics. By the time of the Roman conquest in A.D. 70, the Talmudic rabbis changed the narrative, blaming defeat on internal dissension, thus elevating the need for political discipline above military power. A Harvard p ... more |
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CNN will premiere a six-hour documentary next month on the impact of religious fundamentalism as a powerful political force around the world. Filmed over seven months in six countries and reported by chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, CNN Presents: God's Warriors will debut over three nights from Tuesday, Aug. 21, to Thursday, Aug. 23, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT) on CNN Worl ... more |
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| The Pew Forum delivers timely, impartial information on issues of religion in the public sphere to national opinion leaders, including government officials, journalists, policy analysts and national advocacy organizations. Through this site, the Forum makes available links to its public events, commissioned research and polling. ... more |
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| A tabulation of the religious affiliation of the U.S. Presidents. The site offers statistics such as the number of Presidents who embraced a certain tradition as a percentage of total Presidents, the percentage of the current U.S. population attached to these traditions and the site provides a ratio that illustrates the percentage of Presidents to the percentage of the total U.S. population. ... more |
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