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A university founded by a group of enthusiastic Indian Americans two years ago to teach Sanskrit and dispel the image of Hinduism as a superstitious religion has found few takers in the US.
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A leading expert on political Islam contends the Bush administration is undermining its own democratization efforts in the Middle East and Central Asia through its inability to distinguish between “international jihadism” and “Islamo-nationalist” struggles.
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Proponents of the secularisation thesis will be challenged by the findings of a new survey in the US which says TV news coverage of religion has increased significantly over the last ten years.
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Catholics are leading the pack of immigrants flocking the United States, with a large chunk of newcomers originating from the Philippines and Latin America, a recently released study showed.
Most American churchgoers are hearing about the issue of war with Iraq at their places of worship. But most say their ministers are not taking a position for or against the war, and relatively few people say their own views on the issue are being shaped by religious leaders or their own religious beliefs, unlike the relatively large percentage who report this about social and moral issues like gay marriage, abortion, or the death penalty.
The U.S. State Department’s list of six countries designated as “countries of particular concern” (CPCs) for severe religious freedom violations in 2002 has come under fire from religious liberty advocates primarily because of the countries it failed to include.
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A nationwide study of Protestant church ministers explored whether pastors tend to hold the same political and theological positions as the official positions of their denominations. Theologically, 19% of pastors are more liberal than their denomination, 23% are more conservative, and 59% say their own views fall right in line with their denomination’s teachings. Politically, […]
Source: Ellison Research, Phoenix, Arizona
Since the publication of this article, Ellison Research has changed its name and has become Grey Matter Research, www.greymatterresearch.com
Stung by terrorists who attacked America in part because of its support for authoritarian Muslim regimes, the United States has unveiled a new plan to vigorously promote democracy in the Islamic world. RFE/RL – 6 December 2002 – Acknowledging its past failures to promote self-government in Muslim nations, the United States has announced a new plan […]
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Beefing up security in the aftermath of Sept. 11 isn’t the only new hurdle for American Jewish institutions. Jewish institutions are struggling with new insurance rates — 50 percent increases or more in some cases — that threaten to consume critical funds. JTA – 14 August 2002 – At the same time, these institutions — including […]
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Mark Noll is professor of Christian Thought and professor of history at Wheaton College (Illinois), where he has taught since 1979. As mentioned in Randall Balmer’sEncyclopedia of Evangelicalism (Westminster John Knox Press, 2002), “Noll’s contributions to Evangelicalism in the late 20th century were manifold”. He was the co-founder of the Institute for the Study of […]
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