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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.

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Roots of faith and strife

by Nicole Greenfield

Jewish settlers make a pilgrimage to Joseph's tomb in the Palestinian city of Nablus.

October 25, 2008

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Bound to believe?

by Nathan Schneider

In the journal Nature, cognitive scientist Pascal Boyer (author of Religion Explained) has an essay about why "atheism will always be a harder sell than religion."

October 25, 2008

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Thou shalt not blog without these commandments

by Laura Duane

The Evangelical Alliance has released the Ten Commandments of blogging to "give bloggers a moral edge in a virtual age."

October 26, 2008

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Pennies from heaven

by Nicole Greenfield

Peter Berger on the prosperity gospel.

October 26, 2008

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International religious freedom

by Nicole Greenfield

In honor of the signing of the International Religious Freedom Act ten years ago today, the Pew Forum has featured a Q&A with Allen Hertzke.

October 27, 2008

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Faith and investment

by Nicole Greenfield

From an article in Time on how stock market investments are guided by religious belief.

October 27, 2008

events

Rethinking Secularism: Refining the Concepts of “Public Religions,” “Principled Distance” and the “Twin Tolerations”. A public roundtable at Columbia University, with Rajeev Bhargava, José Casanova and Alfred C. Stepan...

October 28, 2008

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