The shared concern about the need to limit rights to maintain public order and public morals is interpreted differently from one country to another, with resulting disagreements on what constitutes a legitimate limit on speech and religion, writes Asma Uddin, guest editor of the most recent issue of The Review of Faith and International Affairs […]
Current Research: April 2015
01: There is a small but potentially significant increase in the strengthening of Catholic affiliation and a stabilization of the retention rate in the church, according to an analysis of the 2014 General Social Survey. In a post on the blog of Center for Research on the Apostolate (CARA), Mark Gray finds that when asked […]
Findings & Footnotes: April 2015
01: The April issue of the quarterly journal The Muslim World is devoted to the little known branch of Ibadi Islam, which is the majority faith in Oman but also present in Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Zanzibar and along the East Africa coast. The Ibadi developed from conflicts over successors of Mohammad and tended to stress […]
On/File: April 2015
01: The growth of the Coptic Mission of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia represents an unusual case of transplanting a strongly ethnic form Orthodox Christianity in a Latin American context. The mission started almost by accident in 2000 when an Egyptian monk was sent to Bolivia to minister to Coptic Christian migrants only […]
Featured Story: Mormon feminists find problems and promise amidst church crackdown
Feminists and other Mormon liberals have faced new setbacks in recent months as the LDS church has sought to discipline dissenters and limit their roles in leadership and church activities. The recent excommunication of feminist Kate Kelly over her views on women’s ordination has been only the most publicized case of other disciplinary measures brought […]
Gun control moves on to mainline, ecumenical agendas
Mainline Protestants and other ecumenical religious groups are using a range of strategies to fight for gun control, writes David A. Graham in The Atlantic (February). “A coalition of mainline Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church, and Jewish and Muslim leaders are now among the staunchest institutional backers of stricter gun control,” he adds. Some of […]
Current Research: March 2015
01: The growth of the non-affiliated (or “nones”) continues unabated among incoming American college students, and it may be diminishing the importance of spirituality among such young adults, according to the American Freshman, an annual study conducted by UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute. The study, which has consistently asked incoming students their religious affiliation, surveyed 153,015 students […]
Not all Pentecostals are growing in Latin America
Although Pentecostalism shows few signs of decline in Latin America, one prominent denomination is seeing serious losses, and it may be because they are behind the curve in using technology and media. For the first time since its inception, the Congregação Cristã in Brasil (CCB) has lost members— 200,000 members in the last decade—while other […]
Findings & Footnotes: March 2015
01: The International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society devotes its current issue (No. 28) to Muslim chaplaincy in prisons in several countries of Europe—an issue closely linked to Islamic extremism in recent years. Reports that prisons have served as breeding grounds for jihadist Muslims has led various European governments and law officials to view chaplains […]
On/File: March 2015
01: Endowed with a powerful voice, Ahmet Muhsin Tuzer is an unusual full-time imam because he is also an active part-time singer in a rock band, wears jeans, sports long hair and rides a Kawasaki motorcycle. He has been performing with his Firock band since 2010 and has become a celebrity, although conservative Muslims denounce rock […]
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