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• A Rare Chinese Look at Secret Detentions

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  BEIJING — In a rare dose of candor that contradicts past official statements, a state-run magazine has published an article that details a secret network of detention centers used to prevent aggrieved citizens from lodging complaints against the Chinese government. LINK TO ORIGINAL
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• The socialite game

  
  Arvind Narayanan's journal — Authority: 108
  Socialites are often famous for being famous . Although this description is used pejoratively, a variety of human activities center around social games where one gains power by associating with those who are already powerful. Power is defined purely in terms of the network of relationships, with no inherent measure ...
  8 hours ago

• Changing Filters of Print Media?

  
  Eastwood Zhao dot COM — Authority: 110
  Mary, I was leaving a comment for you on your print media post, but it became multi-paragraphed. Instead, here’s a post.Your post is very appropriate for my current state of mind. Right now, as I work on my sociology assignment, the table that I use in the Woodward library is covered by piles of newspaper ...
  9 hours ago

• The Presentation of Self…in Dating

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 124
  Eva Illouz, in Cold Intimacies asks us to consider how technology changes notions of the body and of emotions.  One of the forced rearticulations occurs in the realm of the presentation of self.  As Illouz notes, when technology (specifically in the form of the Internet) mediates relationships we are ...
  10 hours ago

• Indian bishops join mass sit-in to support Christian Dalits

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  Church leaders in India say they are more optimistic about the success of a campaign to end to discrimination faced by Christian Dalits, people from low castes treated as untouchables under an officially-outlawed system. ...Hindu Dalits were made eligible in 1950 for free education and reserved government jobs to ...
  11 hours ago

• In pictures: Bangkok soup vendors working day

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
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  14 hours ago

• Congratulations Guatemala

  
  Doug's Dynamic Drivel — Authority: 140
  On telling the misogynists in the Catholic Church to go take a hike. Now do your people some real good and take away the tax exempt status of all religions. from IPS GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 26 (IPS) – Social organisations in Guatemala are celebrating the entry into effect of a family planning law that will usher ...
  15 hours ago

• ZEN IN THE ART OF SEX AND VIOLENCE

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  ...This pressure to have the unhappy students leave and let the holy teacher stay, too, is very relevant to the unsupportable idea that guru-disciple relationships have “traditionally” worked. (The untenable claim implicit there is that in the agrarian East such relationships had “checks and balances” in ...
  15 hours ago

• White House logs point to donor access

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  By Matthew Mosk Newly released visitor logs show that more than two dozen of President Obamas top-tier campaign fundraisers visited the White House during his first nine months in office, providing more evidence of the administrations quiet effort to reward donors with VIP access including private briefings with ...
  18 hours ago

• Islam in the Land of the Rising Sun

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  In a series of special programmes, Al Jazeera follows Muslims from around the world as they embark on the Hajj pilgrimage. The road to Hajj in the Land of the Rising Sun begins with the little known fact that there are ethnic Japanese Muslims. LINK TO ORIGINAL
  21 hours ago

• Electric Screwdrivers

  
  Content for Reprint Blog — Authority: 153
  Have you ever had to cope with a obstinate screw that just would not go into the material as easily as you wanted? How about one that would not come out for you either? This is annoying as well as time wasting. Power screwdrivers are a great resolution for these issues. They are very effective and inexpensive. In ...
  21 hours ago

• Muslim woman convert battles for Hindu identity in Malaysian court

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian woman who was converted to Islam as a child is battling to be recognised as a Hindu, in the latest conversion dispute to erupt in Malaysia. S Banggarma, 27, has said she was made to convert to Islam at the age of seven when she was placed at a children’s home in Penang state. LINK TO ...
  23 hours ago

• Hindu goddess of power appeased. Animal rights activists not so much

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  Worshippers travelled long distances, many coming from neighbouring India, to attend the Gadhimai festival which is held every five years in southern Nepal to appease the Hindu goddess of power. "It is not an easy task to kill the animals but once I entered the slaughtering field with my sword I felt blessed with ...
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• Psychologists have been watching us on the subway. Heres what theyve learned. (Slate)

  
  N.E.R.F. — Authority: 130
  Psychologists have been watching us on the subway. Heres what theyve learned. (Slate) : thinair : psychotherapy : Spend enough time riding the New York City subway—or any big-city metro—and you’ll find yourself on the tenure-track to an honorary degree in transit psychology. The subway—which keeps ...
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• Eating Well with Cookie Monster — A Thanksgiving Treasury

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 540
  Share your Thanksgiving with Cookie Monster, and learn to eat from the best. Then, enjoy a more cerebral approach to the legendary monster through an NPR interview.
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• Study: Race, class and gender shape religions effect on American voters

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  How Americans vote is strongly linked to their religious identities, but it is not an independent influence that transcends race, socio-economic class and gender... Thomas A. Hirschl, Cornell professor of development sociology and first author... James Booth, Cornell professor of biological statistics and ...
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• Man marries virtual girlfriend

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  We may occasionally wish our spouses had an "off" switch but a Japanese man will have that luxury full-time after he married his virtual girlfriend in an official-looking ceremony over the weekend. In a bizarre story reminiscent of the film Lars and the Real Girl, the man, known by his nickname SAL9000, fell in love ...
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• Thank You Life

  
  Civil Religion — Authority: 537
  Of the many various psychological impulses expressed and addressed through religion, one seems universal.  The acceptance of the sacrifices Life has rendered for our individual existence is foundational to all religions.  Yes, life feeds on itself.  This realization creates the impulse to say thank you to Life.  ...
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• Global Sociology Blogroll – French-Speaking Community

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 137
  SOCIOLOGOS – Société! Avez-vous dit société? via kwout Which seems to have mostly members from Burkina Faso at this point. Check it out or join!
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• Trying to rebuild after 40 frozen years

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  A 1966 ban on development in a disputed tribal area left many Navajo living in third-world conditions -- or forced them out entirely. When the freeze ended, many residents didnt know where to begin. LINK TO ORIGINAL table {border:0px;}td{border-left:2px solid grey;} Interesting story, but a bit too much of ...
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