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Announcements, events, and opportunities related to topics of interest to TIF readers are posted here. Additionally you may find round-ups of news items and brief commentary on current events.

For a listing of all of the events announcements, click here.

For a listing of announcements regarding books, click here.

books

The Future of Islam

by Ruth Braunstein

John Esposito's latest book, The Future of Islam, will be available in February 2010 from Oxford University Press.

December 23, 2009

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Atheism and public office in North Carolina

by Nathan Schneider

In Ashville, North Carolina, the Los Angeles Times reports, a city councilman is under fire for being an atheist (or, as he says, "post-theist")—and the state's constitution is on the critics' side.

December 23, 2009

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'Tis the season for best-of-the-year lists, and the Religion Newswriters Association has gotten in on the action with their list of 2009's top ten religion stories. They compiled the list by surveying more than 100 religion journalists, about 36 of whom responded to the survey.

December 23, 2009

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Religion journalism after Steinfels

by Charles Gelman

Citing two recent examples of unusually attentive and nuanced reporting on religion, Nick Street ponders the future of the field and what the absence of Peter Steinfels might mean for it.

December 24, 2009

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The evolutionary theory of religion

by Charles Gelman

In today's New York Times, Judith Shulevitz reviews The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures by Nicholas Wade.

December 27, 2009

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Why do women believe?

by Nathan Schneider

Lauren Sandler of DoubleX, noting statistics from the American Religious Identification Survey, asks why women are more likely to believe in God than men, "especially considering how God treats them."

December 28, 2009

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