Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq have announced round two of their mixed media project "30 Mosques in 30 Days," an exercise in belief, ritual, community, and personal narrative.
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Inside Scientology
by Amanda KaplanReligion Dispatches interviews Janet Reitman on her newly published book, Inside Scientology: The History of America’s Most Secretive Religion.
July 21, 2011
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Event: The Interplay between Religious Freedom, Extremism, and Security
by Charles GelmanOn July 29---one week from today---the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom will host The Interplay between Religious Freedom, Extremism, and Security: Implications for U.S. Policy, which will feature a panel discussion among Ziya Meral, Daniel Philpott, Timothy Samuel Shah, and Monica Duffy Toft.
July 22, 2011
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A whole earth
by Amanda KaplanBrook Wilensky-Lanford shares her thoughts on the closing MoMa exhibit "Access to Tools: Publications from the Whole Earth Catalog, 1968-1974."
July 26, 2011
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Breivik and “Christianism”
by Amanda KaplanAndrew Sullivan discusses the difference between Christianity and "Chritianism" in light of the recent terrorist attack in Norway.
July 26, 2011
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New journal: Secularism and Nonreligion
by Charles GelmanSecularism and Nonreligion, the "world's first journal dedicated to the study of the nonreligious and the secular," recently announced its launch and is now accepting submissions.
July 26, 2011
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The house that D’Souza built?
by Charles GelmanEarlier this year, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, a former adjunct professor at King's College, wrote an exposé for Killing the Buddha on the small Evangelical and---at least in the eyes of its authorities, if not in those of all of its students---politically conservative college housed in New York's Empire State Building. Now, Andrew Marantz, of New York Magazine, takes a closer look at D'Souza's tenure, the college's sense of its vocation, and the student body being trained to become, in D'Souza's words, "dangerous Christians."
July 27, 2011
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What federal agents are reading about Islam
by Charles GelmanSpencer Ackerman, at Wired's Danger Room blog, reports on the recommended reading on Islam provided to incoming FBI agents, as well as other documents obtained by the ACLU and the Asian Law Caucus pursuant to a recent FOIA request.
July 28, 2011
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Debating religious freedom in Dissent
by Charles GelmanThe latest issue of Dissent features an argument (sub. req.) by Austin Dacey and Colin Koproske against the prevailing understanding of religious freedom in recent U.S. jurisprudence and, more generally, against the accommodation of claims on the grounds that they derive from a specifically religious belief and not otherwise.
July 28, 2011
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Kosher pork
by Charles GelmanFor a brief moment yesterday, in Queens, one could purchase what appeared to be kosher pork. Philip Gourevitch explains.
July 28, 2011