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During a meeting with Michael Hastings Black, Religioscope discussed the impact of new media on depicting a more balanced image of the Muslim minority in the US. Black shows the democratic effect of new media and their subversive potential effect on mainstream classical media. According to him, it is through the new media and such ads, and for economic reasons that American Muslims are going to be integrated into the American national narrative.
Although the events of September 11 were often reported to strengthen spirituality among many Americans, a recent study finds only modest and short-lived effects on young adults’ religious and spiritual lives after the attacks. The study was presented at the Association for Sociology of Religion meeting in Boston in August.
Richard Cimino is the founder and editor of Religion Watch, a newsletter monitoring trends in contemporary religion. Since January 2008, Religion Watch is published by Religioscope Institute. Website: www.religionwatch.com.
Americans are very devout but they tend not to be dogmatic on doctrine and in fact are quite tolerant of others about religion. That was the main finding of a survey from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
Richard Cimino is the founder and editor of Religion Watch, a newsletter monitoring trends in contemporary religion. Since January 2008, Religion Watch is published by Religioscope Institute. Website: www.religionwatch.com.
The battle between Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama to be the presidential candidate for the U.S. Democratic Party has revealed the way in which religion has become an integral part of the campaigns.
Richard Cimino is the founder and editor of Religion Watch, a newsletter monitoring trends in contemporary religion. Since January 2008, Religion Watch is published by Religioscope Institute. Website: www.religionwatch.com.
Recent television images of Russian President Vladimir Putin have shown him lighting candles at the Vatican and praying on the edge of the Jordan River. The president has never disguised his Russian Orthodox beliefs, but are they becoming more conspicuous?
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Imaginations and exaggerations poison the atmosphere between Egypt’s Christians and Muslims, but a Dutch-Egyptian private initiative to build a press archive and a website intends to change this.
© Trouw 2005. This article was originally published in the Dutch newspaper Trouw on 1 December 2005, available at http://www.trouw.nl. The copyright remains with Trouw and the author. The English translation was done by Kees Hulsman and Elizabeth Yell of CAWU. The article was slightly edited by Religioscope for an international audience, with the permission of the author and translators. Published by Religioscope with permission. This article cannot be republished without first getting written permission from Trouw and CAWU.
The Centre for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU), based in Egypt, publishes Arab-West Report, a weekly English language electronic overview of articles published in the Egyptian press. The centre is also building a searchable electronic documentation centre of around 12,000 translated articles and special reports on issues related to Muslim-Christian, Arab-West understanding. For more information about subscriptions or CAWU itself, see http://www.cawu.org.
CAWU meanwhile is seeking financial support to keep its work going.
Few observers would doubt that attitudes toward religion in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have undergone changes in recent times. But the variety of regulations and jurisdictions governing religion and religious freedom makes it often disconcerting for an outsider to understand what is going on in China.
Kim-Kwong Chan and Eric R. Carlson, Religious Freedom in China: Policy, Administration, and Regulation. A Research Handbook. Santa Barbara (California) and Hong Kong: Institute for the Study of American Religion and the Hong Kong Institute for Culture, Commerce and Religion, 2005 (XVI+90 pp.)
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Religious leaders in Thailand agree that consumerism and materialism alienate young Thais from religion and family.
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On the eve of the 2004 Olympic Games, Pope John Paul II, perhaps the most sporting pontiff ever, set up a new Vatican office to help everyone engaged in sports behave in a more sportsmanly way.
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Getting to the Olympics remains a challenge for many female athletes, particularly those from strictly conservative Muslim countries where beliefs about how a woman should dress and behave often clash with the contemporary traditions of international sports.
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