The growing anti-war views of Eastern Orthodox leaders may be causing new tensions in these churches. Although not featured in much of the media, there was almost unanimous agreement among Orthodox leaders that the war with Iraq was immoral with anti-war pronouncements issuing from the high level of the partiarchates of Moscow and Constantinople to […]
The Capuchin moment in the Catholic church?
The Capuchin order is exercising increasing influence in Catholicism, and it is hoping to offer its innovations and ideals of community life and participatory leadership to the wider church, according to the National Catholic Reporter (Nov. 14). The Capuchins broke away from the Franciscan order in the 16th century as they sought to recover the movement’s original […]
Religion coverage cut back in US weeklies, epxanding in Europe?
News magazines in the U.S. are cutting back their religion coverage even as European media is showing a new interest in the subject. In his e-newsletter Sightings (Nov. 9), Martin Marty cites a report by the Religion Newswriters Association that the three major news weeklies,Time, U.S. News & World Report and Newsweek have either recently cut back or phased out specialized […]
Realignment reshaping Anglican churches
“Realignment” has become the new buzzword among observers and participants in the current struggle of the Episcopal Church over the recent election of gay bishop Gene Robinson. The term seems to mean that conservatives and liberals will, in one way or another, part ways and realign with like-minded Anglicans from other churches and parts of […]
Clergy playing renewed role in American politics?
Political scientists are discovering that clergy may be more influential in American politics than previously assumed, especially when it comes to the impact that women, “postmodern” ministries and evangelicals are making in the churches. Those are a few of the findings from a special section of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (December) that brings […]
On/File: November 2003
01: The National Clergy Council is an increasingly influential player in the New Christian Right. Led by anti-abortion activist Rev. Rob Schenck, the council is said to represent 5,000 conservative ministers across the U.S. and was instrumental in the protests surrounding the removal of Alabama’s Chief Justice Roy Moore’s Ten Commandments monument. The Moore protests have given new […]
Findings & Footnotes: November 2003
01: Mattias Gardell’s impressive new book Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism (Duke University Press, $23.95) finds that such notorious white supremacist and anti-Semitic groups as the Ku Klux Klan and Christian Identity have been pushed aside as an “old man’s religion.” The most cursory glimpse at white-racist publications, Web pages, and white-power lyrics […]
Liberal houses feed spiritual hunger for secular Israelis
The escalation of the Intifada and the loss of faith in Zionism in Israel have spurred a movement of secular Israelis engaged in a study of Jewish texts and a search for religious identity. At the SSSR conference, Adina Newberg of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College presented a paper on the growth of liberal Jewish houses […]
French religious symbol conflict takes new legal turns
The wearing of a scarf by Muslim girls at French schools has been an ongoing topic of controversy since the 1980s. But the situation has gained new intensity in October, after two Muslim girls were barred from going back to (government) school because they refused to remove their scarves. There have been many articles and TV […]
Current Research: November 2003
01: More Americans than might be expected are impacted by the growing religious diversity in the U.S., although interfaith acceptance is not necessarily a byproduct of this reality, according to a recent survey. At the conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Princeton University sociologist Robert Wuthnow presented findings from his new Diversity […]
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