Nathanrein's Favorite Links on religion from Diigo

Gov. Palin speaks to the Wasilla Assembly of God church, June 2008 (Huffington Post)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:47:01 -0000

Gov. Palin addresses a Pentecostal church with which she was associated until 2002. The speech was given in June 2008. Excerpt: "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God ... That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."
Elsehwere in the speech, re a pending pipeline project: "I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that."

Tags: blogclip politics conservatives republicans presidential_campaign_2008

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Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly . Using the News to Teach Religion . Course Materials | PBS

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:58:21 -0000

Some practice examples.

Tags: controversy howto teaching religion education

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Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly . Using the News to Teach Religion . Real-World Examples | PBS

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:58:07 -0000

Tags: religion teaching news controversy howto

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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . Using the News to Teach Religion | PBS

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:32:35 -0000

Link from the Pluralism Project. Videos and educators' packets on how to use the news media as a "textbook" in a religious studies course.

Tags: academe check_this_out del.icio.us_import print_and_read religion

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Apocalyptic prophesies and the war in South Ossetia: Glenn Beck interviews Joel Rosenberg

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:11:27 -0000

Transcript of a recent interview between conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck and "The Last Jihad" author Joel Rosenberg about the current Russian-Georgian conflict and the prophecies of Ezekiel 38 and 39.

Tags: via:clipmarks prophecy evangelicalism christianity politics

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Religion Watch - A Newsletter Monitoring Trends in Religion

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:15:26 -0000

A bimonthly email newsletter. I'm tempted to subscribe. It's $20 per year.

Tags: news resources religion journalism contemporary

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Richard Cimino, "9/11’s spiritual effect found to be short-lived among American young adults," Religioscope (Aug. 27, 2008)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:14:40 -0000

Tags: !toread religion terrorism spirituality sbnr

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Euripides, "The Bacchae," at the Perseus project (Tufts Univ.), new site

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:57:49 -0000

Tags: primary_source classic antiquity greece tragedy

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Information and resources for teaching Euripides' Bacchae

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:19:15 -0000

Tags: religion violence rels327 greece tragedy

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Euripides, "The Bacchae" (ca. 406 BCE) at Bartleby.com (Harvard Classics ed.)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:17:32 -0000

Broken up into four simple HTML pages.

Tags: classical antiquity drama literature greece

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Euripides, The Bacchae (ca. 406 BCE), full text at Perseus Project (Loeb ed.)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:16:21 -0000

Kind of a clunky interface, but it's all there.

Tags: antiquity classical greece literature drama

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Background and Images for the Bacchae

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:45:38 -0000

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Meera Nanda, "Rush hour of the gods," Eurozine (March 11, 2008) - on de-secularization among Hindu elites

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:05:25 -0000

Tags: webcite india south_asia religion secularism

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Rodney Stark, "Secularization, R.I.P.," Sociology of Religion 60/3 (1999): 249-273

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:21:57 -0000

Tags: religion secularism social_science !toread

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Jonathan Z. Smith, "The Necessary Lie: Duplicity in the Disciplines" (n.d.)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:10:19 -0000

One of J.Z. Smith's articles on teaching religious studies, intended for graduate students just beginning to teach.

Tags: teaching religion academe pedagogy criticism

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Stephen Prothero, "Belief Unbracketed," Harvard Divinity Bulletin (Winter / Spring 2004), pp. 10f.

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:38:44 -0000

Stephen Prothero argues that scholars of religion should be less reticent in talking about their own views. Specifically he compares his own experience in promoting American Jesus with Bob Orsi's comments in the "snake-handling" chapter of Between Heaven and Earth where he critics Covington's rejection of preacher Punkin Brown. Responses from Orsi and others: http://snipr.com/3hlzb

Tags: religion academe research pluralism belief

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R. Orsi, D. Chidester, P.E. Klassen, and R.M. Smith, responses to Stephen Prothero, "Belief Unbracketed," Harvard Divinity Bulletin (Summer 2004), pp. 16-18

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:34:09 -0000

Responses to Steven Prothero's commentary, "Belief Unbracketed," in Harvard Divinity Bulletin (http://snipr.com/3hlwr) by Robert A. Orsi, David Chidester, Pamela E. Klassen, and R. Marie Griffith.

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

This new book, Authentic Fakes: Religion in American Popular Culture (University of California Press, forthcoming 2005), must also be regarded as a perversion. After all, I tried to get it published under the title Holy Shit, a "perverse" title, as anyone can see, but I was diverted by reluctant publishers and in the process I was arguably perverted myself to conform to the demands of the market. So, we find ourselves in the midst of perversions upon multiple perversions. I plead guilty. I am implicated.

This guy is crazy! In a good way! posted by nathanrein

Tags: religion commentary pluralism academe research

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Bryan Farha and Gary Steward, Jr., "Paranormal Beliefs: An Analysis of College Students," Skeptical Inquirer (Jan./Feb. 2006)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:15:24 -0000

From the page: "This study examines the paranormal beliefs of college students along thirteen dimensions relating to age, area of study, and education level. Are college students more apt to believe in the paranormal?"

Tags: belief atheism religion supernatural psychology

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Losing the Yeti in Forgotten Nation of Bhutan | LiveScience

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:10:31 -0000

An interesting piece of research showing that traditional beliefs in the Yeti have been disappearing -- or, more precisely, are more and more often linked with backwardness and ignorance -- with modernization, even in relatively remote areas of Bhutan.

Tags: science belief religion modernization secularism

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Monsters, Ghosts and Gods: Why We Believe | LiveScience

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:56:52 -0000

This is not a bad article, but it drives me crazy that the writer never consulted a specialist in religion. The quoted "scientific" explanations for ancient religious beliefs were basically debunked by research several generations ago. This is how bad the academic study of religion looks to the rest of the world, I guess.

Tags: science religion psychology belief b.s.

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