01: The July/August issue of the magazine Touchstone is devoted to theIntelligent Design movement, which seeks to replace Darwinian science with a scientific model of origins that makes room for a creator, even if evolution did take place. The magazine ran another special issue on this movement a few years ago when it was largely unknown except […]
Catholic businessmen evangelizing in China
Among China’s new breed of businessmen, there are Roman Catholics doing their best to spread Christian beliefs among their employees or to support their Church in a variety of other ways, reports the French Catholic news agency and bulletin Eglises d’Asie (July 16). Some have gone so far as to build a prayer hall in their factory […]
Radicalized segment of Sunni Muslims emerges in Iraq
No longer restricted by a repressive regime, Sunni Muslims are turning to militant expressions of the faith, preaching jihad in key mosques and organizing politically to wield greater influence in the country, reports the Christian Science Monitor (July 28). While still on the fringes of Sunni Islam in Iraq, the radical preachers are serving as a rallying […]
Muslims in Canada engaging in politics, gaining influence
Canadian Muslims are becoming politically active and are showing that they can wield a good deal of influence in elections, reports the website IslamOnline (July 5). The high turnout of Muslims in Canada’s general elections in early July had a part in the victory of the Liberal party. More than 80 percent of eligible Muslims cast their […]
Religious decline and revival in E. Europe, Russia — an interview
Since the fall of communism, the religious situation in Eastern and Central Europe and in Russia has become ever more complex and diversified. To shed some light on the changing patterns of religious belief and practice in these regions, RW recently spoke with Detlef Pollack, a well-known German sociologist who has conducted a good deal of research […]
Current Research: August 2004
01: A new survey finds that Protestants will soon lose their majority status in the U.S. Due to a steady decline of Americans affiliated with many Protestant churches between 1993 and 2002, the survey, conducted by the National Opinion Research Center, finds that the share of Americans who said they were Protestant dropping from 63 percent to […]
Baptist, Lutheran, AME, Catholic gatherings signal new directions
Summer is the time for conventions both political and religious, but so far it is the denominational gatherings which reveal long-range trends that may outlast the season. As expected, at their June convention, Southern Baptists voted to withdraw from the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), the international pan-Baptist organization over its alleged theological liberalism and theological pluralism. The […]
Neo-paganism going global and mainstream?
RW recently attended a workshop during the Parliament of the World’s Religions (PWR) in Barcelona (July 7-13) and found that Neo-Paganism is emerging in countries, such as Spain and South Africa, from which it was absent until a few years ago. The PWR, first initiated in Chicago in 1893, attracted some 8,000 participants this year, offering […]
Current Research: July 2004
01: For The Health of the Nation: An Evangelical Call for Civic Responsibility, a statement by the National Association of Evangelicals, has sparked controversy over the question of how involved evangelicals should be in activism. In an early draft given to the press, the statement was reported to call for evangelicals not to ally themselves […]
Findings & Footnotes: July 2004
01: The tensions and cooperation between religion and politics are as relevant as ever, and not only due to the highlighted concerns about developments in the Muslim world and its relations with the West. As Paul Griffiths writes in one of the essays in The Sacred and the Sovereign: Religion and International Politics (Georgetown University Press, $26.95), […]
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