Link Roundup for Feb 22 – March 6 2010
Apologies for the incompleteness of this post. I seem to have deleted a draft version of this post with considerably more links.
- Liverpool Daily Post reports on a “militant atheist” leaving offensive imagery in John Lennon airport’s prayer room.
- The Montreal Gazette notes a story about a prostitution scandal high in the ranks of the papacy.
- The Montreal Gazette also reports on a woman refusing to uncover her face during a French class for new immigrants.
- The Chron, with the RPS’ theme of art and the public contestation of religion, notes a controversial version of the Stations of the Cross in Texas.
Link Roundup for Feb 13-21 2010
- New York Times Magazine has an absolutely phenomenal piece on Christianity, high school history textbooks, and the Texas school board.
- The Guardian reports on an academic claiming Descartes’ death was not natural, but an assassination by a priest due to his heretical views.
- Religion of Comic Book Characters: the website title says it all and it’s absurdly comprehensive.
- Wall Street Journal reports on the Vatican newspaper’s list of the greatest rock albums.
Link roundup for Feb 4-12 2010
- Sociological Images has an excellent post on Bill Maher’s recent “Burqa Fashion Show.” They draw out the latent assumptions of Maher’s criticisms, with a healthy discussion in the comments section.
- Money Sense notes a recent study on the correlations between specific economic decisions and adherence to specific religious communities.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education has an entertaining article about the mundane doings of Islamic Radicals in the tapes of the U.S. military.
Link Roundup for Jan 23 – Feb 2
- Parody of Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” entitled “95 Theses”
- CNN, on a similar theme, reports the use of hip hop by Japanese monks to increase the accessibility of their message.
- Roland Boer follows his post from last week about disenchantment and re-enchantment.
- Steve Wiggins discusses the recent movie The Book of Eli.
Link Roundup for Jan 16-22
- Religion Dispatches has a roundup of all of their posts on Haiti.
- National Public Radio posts an excellent satire of Satan’s open letter to Pat Robertson. The Onion has a similarly humorous/dismissive response.
- The Guardian interviews Shlomo Sand, author of the popular book The Invention of the Jewish People. What might have been another standard anti-Zionism piece brings the public contestation of religion into it quite clearly.
Key excerpt: “But, say Sand’s critics, since all national identities are myths, why pick on the Jews? Only a few fundamentalists think God actually promised Israel to Moses. Meanwhile, millions of Jews feel a cultural and religious attachment to Zion. It is in their liturgy and their sense of self. It is no fiction.”
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