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Apr
30
Scholar: In Islamic Feminism, Both Liberals and Conservatives Play Essential Roles
April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
(Left: Christina Hoff Sommers speaking at Friday’s conference, “The Rights of Women in Islam and Muslim Societies.” Photo by Andrea Useem)
In the struggle to accord women more rights in Islamic law and culture, who can play the most effective role? Christina Hoff Sommers, an American Enterprise Institute resident scholar speaking last Friday, pointed to the […]
Apr
26
Booklet: Why — and How — Churches Need to Innovate
April 26, 2007 | 2 Comments
The Dallas-based Leadership Network - the closest thing the evangelical world has to a church think-tank — released in February a glossy publication covering the newest and best ways to “do church.” The 63-page Innovation 2007 starts off with a provocative sampling of relevant statistics. Did you know the average American spends only seven minutes a […]
Apr
25
A new study out this morning from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the
Pew
Hispanic
Center includes a chapter on religious conversion among Hispanics in
America.
Basic Data on Latino Conversion:
The vast majority of Latinos (82%) give no indication of ever having changed their religious affiliation. However, almost one-in-five (18%) Latinos say they […]
Apr
23
Book: Why Horror Attracts, and How We Memorialize It
April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Bob Abernethy, founder and host of PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, and co-editor William Bole have compiled 66 of the show’s most interesting interviews in “The Life of Meaning: Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World,†published this month by Seven Stories Press. Compressed from lengthy Q+As into “spoken essay†form, the brief chapters offer short […]
Apr
20
Quran Translation: American Muslim Woman Presents New Translation of “Beat Them (Lightly)” Verse
April 20, 2007 | 9 Comments
This article is reprinted from Publishers Weekly Religion BookLine, April 18, 2007
“Laleh Bakhtiar: An American Woman Translates the Quran”
By Andrea Useem
What does it mean to beat someone “lightly?” Muslims have debated this question over the centuries while interpreting a verse in the Qur’an where God instructs Muslim men, if they fear “disobedience” from their […]
Apr
19
TV Review: PBS’s “The Muslim Americans” Disappoints
April 19, 2007 | 1 Comment
Photo: Muslim American teens Farah and Sarah Albani, interviewed by Judy Woodruff for the PBS documentary, “The Muslim Americans.” (Photo from the PBS website)
As part of its 11-part documentary series on the post-9/11 world, “America at a Crossroads,†PBS last night broadcast “The Muslim Americans,†a one-hour segment that was panned by the New York […]
Apr
18
“We Need the Word ‘Evil,’” Says Religion Scholar
April 18, 2007 | 1 Comment
Jennifer Geddes, associate professor of religious studies and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, has written extensively on the subject of evil. ReligionWriter spoke with her this morning about using the term “evil” to describe the Virginia Tech shooter.
ReligionWriter: What does the word “evil” mean?
Jennifer Geddes: I […]
Apr
17
Scholar on VTech Tragedy: Theodicy Has Many Faces
April 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Reporting on a tragedy follows a set trajectory, and many reporters today are writing “what sense can we make of it?” stories, often using faith leaders as sources. Over the coming week, the otherwise arcane theological term “theodicy” will crop up in news stories across the country.
To take a deeper look at theodicy, ReligionWriter spoke […]
Apr
16
Blogs: Top Religion Reporter Says Blogging is Exciting, Draining and Obligatory
April 16, 2007 | 2 Comments
Gary Stern, religion reporter at the Gannett-owned Journal News, which serves three
New York counties, launched his blog, On Religion, last September on the newspaper’s website, LoHud.com. Posting three to four times a day, Gary, who won the Templeton Reporter of the Year award in 2006, said his blog gets about 7,000 hits a month, a […]
Apr
4
Book: Young Muslim Scholar Sees Violent Extremists as Effective Youth Organizers
April 4, 2007 | 1 Comment
Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation (Beacon Press: July, 2007), is the memoir of Eboo Patel, a former
Rhodes scholar with a Ph.D. in religion from Oxford, is founder and director the Interfaith Youth Corps, a Chicago-based group aimed at creating a movement of religious […]
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