The Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture is fielding applications for its 2010-2012 Young Scholars Program, to be led by Professors Ann B. Braude and Mark Valeri.

Today at Haaretz.com, Bradley Burston decries Israeli ambassador Michael Oren's refusal to address the first national J Street conference this weekend.

NPR's Morning Edition explores the difference of opinion among atheists concerning how to speak about religion and engage with believers.

At Politics Daily, David Gibson wonders whether the Pope's plan to allow Anglicans to join the Catholic Church without renouncing their traditions or beliefs is a "welcome mat" or a "hostile takeover".

At Front Porch Republic, Darryl Hart laments that historians and other observers of religion in America too often cast the religious Right as a new, ominous phenomenon. Hart insists that "that the Religious Right is nothing new in U.S. history and that scaring citizens with the apparently bizarre proposals of Christian conservatives is bad scholarship."

The Guardian's Maznah Mohamad reflects on the increasing Islamization of the Malaysian government, in spite of Malaysia's significant non-Muslim population (40% of the total citizenry) and supposed commitment to pluralism.

At Georgetown/On Faith, Patrick J. Deneen asks whether a liberal commitment to diversity is really an "intolerable form of tolerance that is hostile to actual diversity."

Immanent Frame contributor Justin Neuman has organized a seminar on the topic of Cosmopolitanism and Religion, which will take place at this years meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association in New Orleans, LA.  Paper proposals are to be submitted by 10 November.

At n+1, Kiera Feldman reports on the Jews for Jesus "Summer Witnessing Campaign" in New York City.

At altmuslim, Parvez Ahmed examines the distressingly low socio-economic status of India's minority Muslim community and addresses what must be done to empower and integrate Indian Muslims.