This Friday, March 30, at 12:30pm, the Committee for the Study of Religion at the City University of New York Graduate Center is hosting a lecture by Steven Lukes with the title "Is Durkheim’s Understanding of Religion Compatible with Believing?" The lecture marks the centenary of the publication of Émile Durkheim's classical work, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.
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“The Rise of the Islamists”
by Candice ScharfThe award-winning documentary radio program, America Abroad, has recently released a new documentary entitled, "The Rise of the Islamists."
April 2, 2012
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Experiences with evangelical congregations
by John D. BoyIn The New Yorker, Joan Acocella gives a favorable review of Tanya M. Luhrmann's When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God.
April 3, 2012
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CFP: “Radical Secularization?”
by Phillip QuinteroSeptember 20-22, 2012, Universiteit Antwerpen will host a conference on secularization theory.
April 4, 2012
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New Peace Brief on the desecration of the Qur’an
by Wei ZhuFollowing reports of NATO personnel burning copies of the Qu'ran in Afghanistan, the United States Institute of Peace convened a closed-door roundtable of scholars, practitioners, government officials, and policy experts to discuss the implications.
April 5, 2012
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Human rights and the Arab Spring
by Candice ScharfThe New York Review of Books' blog recently posted a debate between women's rights groups and Human Rights Watch entitled, Women and Islam: A Debate With Human Rights Watch.
April 6, 2012
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Harmful prayer?
by Candice ScharfOn April 2nd, Dallas District Court Judge Martin Hoffman ruled that it is legal to pray for God to harm someone as long as no one is actually threatened or harmed.
April 9, 2012
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Democracy, diplomacy, and religious freedom
by Wei ZhuOver at Foreign Affairs, Andrew Preston has written an article exploring the paradox of religion in U.S. foreign policy.
April 10, 2012
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The year of the Islamist
by David SloaneDavid Rohde, in Reuters’ Analysis and Opinion blog, designates 2012 as the year of the Islamist and discusses the likelihood that Islamists will remain in power in Tunisia and Egypt.
April 11, 2012
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Looking at religiosity and the Bible Belt
by Phillip QuinteroRichard Florida follows up on what exactly the recent Gallup poll on differences in religiosity by state tells us about America. He compares the poll's findings with his own socioeconomic data, which confirms correlations identified by the longstanding World Values Survey:
April 12, 2012