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Early Islam: the mystic tide
In part four of a five part series at 3 Quarks Daily, Namit Arora charts the development of Sufism from…
Is the Episcopal Church a sect?
At getreligion.org, Terry Mattingly asks whether the Episcopal Church, increasingly isolated from the wider Anglican Communion, should be referred to…
Islamic finance undergoes test in Dubai
In the New York Times, Heather Timmons reports on the looming debt crisis in Dubai and the questions that it…
Classifying the conflict in Mindanao
At Religion Dispatches, Bruce B. Lawrence explores the ongoing conflict in Mindanao and argues that to conceptualize the conflict as…
Secularity and prosperity
At Miller-McCune, David Villano explores the recent publication in the online journal Evolutionary Psychology of a study by independent researcher, Gregory…
The inclusion and exclusion of the Church in American politics
At The Globe and Mail, Konrad Yakabuski compares the Catholic Church's vocal and influential role in American politics, particularly in…
Terrorism: who and why?
At CTheory.net, Nitasha Kaul considers how we may or may not be able to contextualize the motivations and strategies of…
As ice melts, Kenyans wonder: Is God dead?
In the Los Angeles Times, Edmund Sanders reports on Mt. Kenya's steadily diminishing ice cap. Beyond the obvious environmental impact…
Islamic finance
The New York Times's Hillary Brenhouse explores the proliferation in European and American higher education of courses and degrees in…