In an effort to counteract the influence of the religious right, new groups are emerging from the direction of the religious left and center. The National Catholic Reporter (Jan. 23) notes that the fledgling Center for American Progress plans to energize the secular and religious left through using techniques such as media publicity first honed by the […]
George W. Bush’s new kind of liberation theology?
Several critical works on George W. Bush and his adminstration try to peer into the president’s soul and find out how his religion is affecting foreign policy. In his new book American Dynasty (Viking, $29.95), political analyst and strategist Kevin Phillips asserts that Bush’s evangelical faith is key to understanding his approach to world affairs. Phillips even […]
Jewish studies programs not just for Jews anymore
Jewish studies programs at American universities are increasingly appealing to gentiles, including active Christians, reports the New York Times (Nov. 3). The more than 100 colleges and universities offering Jewish studies include such Catholic institutions as Fordham and Scranton, the Quaker-based Earlham College in Indiana, and public ones like the University of Kentucky and Portland State in […]
On/File: January 2004
01: Milli Gorus, a German group of Turkish Muslims, is on the government’s watch list of Islamic radical groups. Yet this group and its imam or leader Ramazan Ucar is said to be changing under a new generation from a militant identity to one promoting with democracy. The group, with 27,000 members and a network […]
Findings & Footnotes: January 2004
01: A discussion about whether sects and denominations exist within Islam sounds esoteric, but this once-academic topic is becoming more pressing in the post-9/11 world. The current issue of Nova Religio (October), a journal of new religious movements, includes several articles that wrestle with finding the right category to describe groups like Osama bin Laden’s Al Qa’ida. […]
Muslims facing new prejudice in Russia
Muslims in Russia are facing a new wave of prejudice following a siege by Chechen guerrillas on a Moscow theater in October. The Washington Post (Dec. 23) reports that “Islamopohobia” has revived after a period when Russia’s estimated 20 million Muslims have been more numerous and freer than ever. “These events have only strengthened the hand of […]
Iraq’s Christian emigration increases with threat of war
Iraq’s Christians are following in the pattern of other Middle Eastern Christians as they seek emigration to the West, partly due to a new wave of Islamic growth, reports the World Press Review (January). Iraqi Christians, numbering abut 500,000 (and comprising 2-3 percent of the population), have long been protected by the secular government, but as Sadaam […]
New web technology creates free space for Muslim women
Weblogs, or “blogging,” are public online diaries that are providing free space for discussion among Muslim women who are restricted in their own societies, reports Utne magazine (January/February). The magazine reports that a small but growing number of “blogs” (already in the thousands) are maintained by and for women in the Muslim world — for […]
Islam’s Rome prophecy gains hearing
A prophesy by Muhammad that Rome and Europe will be conquered for Islam is being revived and popularized by Muslim clerics, according to a Dec. 6 report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Muslim Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, one of the most influential Sunni clerics, recently wrote that according to Islamic prophesy, Islam will […]
Ukrainians press on despite Rome’s reluctance
For several decades, Ukrainian Greek Catholics have cultivated the dream of getting their own Patriarchate, a status enjoyed by six other Eastern Churches in union with Rome. This goal has often been expressed in diaspora communities and in Ukraine itself as soon as the Ukrainian Greek Catholics emerged from their clandestine existence in late 1989. […]
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