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Are contemporary believers in prophecies about the end of the world sincere enough to refuse monetary rewards if they conflict with their expectations?
Six decades after India’s partition made Muslim politics a dirty word, parties founded by Muslims to espouse the cause of the country’s largest minority are again making a mark.
(With inputs from Gaurav Sharma, Sheikh Qayoom, Jaideep Sarin, Anil Sharma, Mohit Dubey, Imran Khan, Sirshendu Panth, Jatindra Dash, Quaid Najmi, Fakir Balaji, Mohammed Shafeeq, V. Jagannathan, Mayabhushan Nagvenkar and Sanu George.)
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The Christian practices of tithing and fasting may be a factor in bolstering the level of prosperity for poor people, according to a recent study of Dalit Indians conducted by Rebecca Shah of Georgetown University.
An astrologer and social activist has turned the religious practice of offering water and milk in temples into a unique way of water conservation. Pandit Purushotam Gaur, known as Guruji, has developed water harvesting infrastructure in more than 300 temples in Rajasthan over the past 13 years.
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Men from across the state and now even outside it look forward to two days on the calendar of the famous Kottankulangara Devi Temple at Chavara near here for a chance to dress as women.
For a gallery of high quality pictures of devotees in their dresses at the festival, visit: http://kottankulangaratemple.org/gallery/.
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Israel may remain an officially Jewish state, with no “church”-state separation, and with an orthodox majority with a presence in politics and strong religious attachments, but the country is experiencing a “secularization below the radar,” said Guy Ben-Porot, a political scientist at Ben-Gurion University at a recent meeting at Columbia University in New York.
Spain and Portugal’s immigrant and Islamic histories has been an important factor in these nations’ unique record of toleration toward their Muslim immigrant populations, according to journalist Marvine Howe in her new book Al-Andalus Rediscovered: Iberia’s New Muslims.
Marvine Howe, Al-Andalus Rediscovered: Iberia’s New Muslims, Columbia University Press / Hurst, 2012, 208 p.
How Islamists and their fellow activists are adjusting to national and global changes. And how we can understand these transformations. Those are the issues explored in a new book, “Whatever Happened to the Islamists”.
Amel Boubekeur and Olivier Roy (eds.), Whatever Happened to the Islamists? Salafis, Heavy Metal Muslims and the Lure of Consumerist Islam, London / New York, Hurst / Columbia University Press, 2012, 224 p.
Faith tourism is “recession-proof”. Multicultural India is planning to pitch faith tourism by developing more religious tourist circuits to attract foreign footfalls and encourage greater domestic travelling that has seen double digit growth in recent years benefiting the local economy.
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The United Arab Emirates city of Dubai likely has the largest Catholic parish in the world, with over 300,000 parishioners. Equally noteworthy is the large degree of lay involvement among corporate professionals in in the Dubai church, considering it exists in a non-democratic and Islamic society, according to Brandon Vaidyanathan of Notre Dame University.
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