Religious links

Aug 13, 2009 08:07

A model of religious belief.

In the US, women are more religious than men and this is the more so the more secularised the population.

Review of a book with a positive moral spin on the evolution of conceptions of the divine

Jimmy Carter on how the words of God do not justify denying women equality.

About Egypt’s premier scholar of Judaism and Jewish history.

Back in March, Pope Benedict reiterated the Church’s opposition to condoms while visiting Africa.

About Christian anti-abortion activism and what drives the violent fringe: they are very Old Testament.

Secularism and welfare spending are positively correlated across nations, but not across US States.

About the status of women in Afghanistan.

About political theology and its challenge to the modern West: But religion had never left the political arena; rather, a shift occurred from European theology-as-politics-which persisted prior to the French Revolution-to politics-as-theology, which took hold afterward..

Rabbis attend an Islamic conference in the US: so naturally an iman gives a speech blaming Jews for the Holocaust.

Wondering if, given the links between Iranian and Iraqi Shi’a, if Iraqi democracy has been affecting Iranian popular resistance. More on Iranian developments, including religious dissent. It is illegal in Islam to execute women if they are virgins: the Iranian regime has a solution for that little difficulty.

misogyny, religion, links, islam

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