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“A deity who is pleased with the singing of his praises”
“Like many another Victorian, Spencer rejected, without really understanding, the Christianity on which he had been brought up. He spoke of the Christian God as ‘…a deity who is pleased with the...
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27% of UK young people don’t trust Muslims, 12% don’t trust Christians.
I’ve been looking over a BBC/ComRes survey on the attitudes of young people (aged 18-24) relating to prejudice and discrimination. Of course, the survey doesn’t actually measure discrimination, but...
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‘I’m going to ask you a serious question.’
This little gem came out a couple weeks ago. A fun look at what people ‘on the street’ think about religion and religions. I do wonder about the the promise ‘to learn about what people really believe.’...
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Who decides what’s religious?
There’s an interesting story from RNS on the debate going on in India over whether yoga is or isn’t a religious practice. According to the article, some, particularly Christians and Muslims, are wary...
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Ethnocentric bias to the scientific tribe.
Etic constructs are accounts, descriptions, and analyses expressed in terms of the conceptual schemes and categories regarded as meaningful and appropriate by the community of scientific observers....
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Views on the Catholic Church and homosexuality
Today in a seminar with Dr. Adriaan van Klinken (Leeds) on religion, sexuality, and nationalism in Zambia, the position of the Catholic Church on homosexuality came up. Van Klinken noted that compared...
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“The Homeschool Apostates”
An article on homeschool graduates rebelling against their fundamentalist upbringings was brought to my attention by fellow homeschool grad Dave Ketter. The article presents a strongly negative view on...
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“Everyone is an expert on religion in the U.S.”
Who gets to decide what is and isn’t religious? This is a recurring issue in the field of religious studies, so much so that some (such as Timothy Fizgerald) have argued that the term is unsuitable as...
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Christian ‘Renewalism’
A new word came up in my Twitter feed today: 67% of Latino Protestants & 52% of Catholics classified as renewalist Christians – more on their beliefs & practices: http://t.co/fmZ5bp1rQn —...
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The bookseller’s categories
It’s always an enlightening and somewhat disquieting exercise to explore a book store and see how they categorize their books, particularly in the areas of social science and religion(s). How books are...
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