Sociologist (and longtime TIF contributor) Nilüfer Göle assesses the emerging opposition movement in Turkey at Today's Zaman.
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President Carter calls upon the Catholic Church to ordain women as priests
by Dolores Morgan TrujilloFormer U.S. President Jimmy Carter calls upon the Catholic Church to ordain women as priests as part of an interview discussing religion, faith, and women's rights with Time Magazine reporter Elizabeth Dias in order to promote The Carter Center's upcoming Mobilizing Faith for Women conference
June 25, 2013
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Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference on Religion
by Claire MaHarvard Divinity School is hosting its annual Ways of Knowing conference for graduate students and young scholars who are studying religion in all different programs and disciplines. The conference will be held at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, MA on October 25-26, 2013 (more details here). The deadline to submit papers is July 1, 2013.
June 25, 2013
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SCOTUS roundup: Rulings on DOMA and Prop 8
by Claire Ma and Dolores Morgan TrujilloThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 on Wednesday that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 law that denied federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples, is unconstitutional. The Court also declined to rule on Proposition 8, a California case that banned same-sex marriage, on technical grounds, deciding that the case was improperly before the Court. The following roundup presents a range of reactions from both sides, with a focus on the religious aspects that have long influenced this debate.
June 26, 2013
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No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education
by The EditorsIn their recent publication, No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education, Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen discuss how religion has increasingly become more intertwined with the work higher education as well as how the "religious" and "secular" are blending together.
July 1, 2013
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Latest Reverberations
by The EditorsReverberations, the new digital forum on prayer produced in conjunction with the SSRC’s New Directions in the Study of Prayer (NDSP) initiative, has expanded its content as it explores prayer.
July 2, 2013
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Judge rules yoga not a threat to separation of church and state
by Claire MaA judge in California ruled on Monday that teaching yoga in public schools does not violate the U.S. Constitution's separation of church and state. The ruling came as a response to a lawsuit brought forth by parents in the Encinitas school district, in which the parents argued that teaching yoga in public schools was a form of indoctrination.
July 3, 2013
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Igbo Jews: A Lost Tribe of Israel?
by Dolores Morgan TrujilloOver at CNN, Chika Oduah writes about the assertion by Igbo Jews that they are descendants of Jacob and one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, noting that the claim is highly disputed by some.
July 3, 2013
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Religious freedom and the Constitution
by Dolores Morgan TrujilloDennis J. Goldford was recently interviewed by Religion Dispatches Magazine about his new book The Constitution of Religious Freedom: God, Politics, and the First Amendment, which explores the notion of "separation of church and state" and the religious identity of America.
July 4, 2013
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CFP: Media and Religion
by Claire MaThe Center for Media, Religion, and Culture will hold its fifth annual conference on Media and Religion: The Global View in January 2014.
July 8, 2013