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• Another errand into the wilderness

  
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  A very American story about a group of people who probably dont think of themselves as American at all: The Old Believers of Russian Orthodoxy. At the Atlantic Monthly, Wendy Jonassen and Ryan Loughin report : Members of the Old Believers -- a Russian Orthodox sect that left the church in 1666, in the face of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Atheist takes questions in Mississippi church

  
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  A Mississippi Church of Christ -- a conservative church in a conservative state -- interviews an atheist, Neil Carter of Godless in Dixie , in a very open, cordial discussion. Carter starts the conversation: People like me are out there, and itd be interesting to have a conversation. What I have found is now that Im ...
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• Social medias calls to prayer

  
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  A remarkable graph showing mentions of "pray for Boston" on Twitter in the days after the Boston Marathon bombing: At The Atlantic, Eleanor Barkhorn notes  anecdotally that the calls for prayer came from unexpected quarters: What I saw on Twitter and Facebook in the hours after the Boston bombings and the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Towards a Syllabus on Asian Religions in America

  
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  Michael J. Altman While everyone else I know in academia is wrapping up the semester and stuck in various circles of grading hell, I am looking ahead toward the fall semester. That is because I recently received an email reminding me that my book list for my fall classes was due soon. So, yesterday I began ...
  3 weeks ago

• Science vs. religion vs. facts

  
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  Neil DeGrasse Tyson, perhaps Americas most popular promoter of science, pointed out several years ago that theres no necessary conflict between science and religion. Not if youre being scientific about it. As a matter of a concrete fact, discoverable by investigation of the world around us, there are people who are ...
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• Jacob Dorman on the Rise of Black Israelite Religions

  
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  Im delighted to introduce our new regular contributor Lincoln Mullen . He is a graduate student in the history department at Brandeis University. He is working on a dissertation about people who converted between religions—Judaism, Catholicism, Mormonism, Protestantism, native American, and Free ...
  3 weeks ago

• Judges seem skeptical of homeschoolers persecution claims

  
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  The three judges set to decide whether a German homeschooling family qualifies for asylum in the United States seemed skeptical during a court hearing Tuesday in Cincinnati, Ohio, according to news reports. Uwe and Hannelore Romeike are arguing that homeschoolers ought to be considered a "particular social group" ...
  4 weeks ago

• Americas religious regions, according to geo-coded data

  
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  A map of the Christian denominational landscape of the United States, as represented by internet-user-generated data.  The creators , Matthew Zook and Taylor Shelton from the University of Kentucky and Mark Graham from Oxford, use a software program to mine online, geo-coded data -- Google Maps placemarks, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hitler wins: the disjunction of law & politics in Romeike v. Holder

  
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  The definition of a very vague legal term is at the center of oral arguments being heard today in a federal appeals court in Cincinnati, Ohio. That term is "particular social group." In US law, that is one of five named groups of people eligible for asylum -- and the most ill-defined. The other categories are race, ...
  4 weeks ago

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