In Reuters, journalist Katherine Stewart gives her thoughts regarding American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) recently filed lawsuit against New Heights Middle School for proselytizing students, and the larger trends of "peer" and "pizza" evangelism.
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Secularism and The Third Jihad
by Jessica PolebaumAt The Revealer, Jeremy F. Walton offers insight on the recent controversy surrounding the NYPD's use of The Third Jihad in police training activities.
February 3, 2012
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Is religion special?
by Wei ZhuIn Religion Dispatches, Katherine Stewart asks what the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. E.E.O.C. decision can tell us about how religion is viewed by the courts and, more broadly, by the government.
February 6, 2012
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CFP: Irreligion, Secularism and Social Change
by Taline CoxThe Religious Studies Project has disseminated a Call for Papers on behalf of Per Smith in the hope of creating a group within the American Academy of Religion yearly program that discusses topics such as irreligion, nonreligion, and secularism.
February 7, 2012
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After the secular age
by John D. BoyJust out from Verso Press, Simon Critchley's The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology investigates the role of religion in the postsecular twenty-first century.
February 8, 2012
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Changing religious attitudes towards gay marriage
by Taline CoxOn February 7, 2012, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that California’s 2008 Proposition 8- a referendum banning same-sex marriage- violated the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law and was therefore unconstitutional.
February 9, 2012
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The cry for immanence
by John D. BoyToday begins a discussion series at the collaborative theology blog An und für sich on Daniel Barber's recent book, On Diaspora: Christianity, Religion, and Secularity. Daniel Whisper from the University of Liverpool makes the start in the AUFS series.
February 10, 2012
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NYC religious groups vacate public schools and march in protest
by Grace YukichThe past few months have been a wild ride for church-state issues in the U.S. The Hosanna-Tabor decision upheld the “ministerial exemption,” the Obama administration required Catholic hospitals to cover birth control for employees (and then, due to outcry, required insurance companies to cover the costs instead). And in New York City, February 12th marks […]
February 11, 2012
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John Hick (1922 – 2012)
by Dr. Richard AmesburyAn influential thinker in the areas of Christology, eschatology, and the problem of evil, Hick will likely best be remembered for his "pluralistic hypothesis."
February 12, 2012
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Religion and the body
by John D. BoyThe Scholar & Feminist Online, an e-journal published by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, recently launched a special issue on religion and the body.
February 13, 2012