World Religions
Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent for CNN, examines women’s rights in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity in a series she did called “God’s Warriors.” The one here (8 minutes) is about women’s rights in Islam. Read more
Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent for CNN, examines women’s rights in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity in a series she did called “God’s Warriors.” The one here (8 minutes) is about women’s rights in Islam. Read more
Is Islam a happy religion? Are Arabs and Muslims one and the same? Are Muslim women more oppressed than women in other religions? Are Islam and terrorism closely linked? What does the term Jihad mean? Hussein Rashid, an associate editor at Religion Dispatches, attempts to dispel the misconceptions that surround these questions. You can find a series of video clips about different aspects of Islam here at the Odyssey Network. Read more
Who are the Parsis? They are members of the largest Zoroastrian community in India. And the Zoroastrian religion is one of the world’s oldest. It was started in Iran over 3,500 years ago. And many religious scholars believe that it influenced Christianity. They are in the news because of a photographic exhibit of the community by the famous Indian photographer, Sooni Taraporevala, at Chemould Prescott Road in Mombay. The BBC has some of the photographs here. Taraporevala is a Parsi... Read more
A majority of American Christians believe that Jesus will return to earth in the next 40 years, according to this 2010 survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. Read more
What happens when a New York Jew tries to create a Passover Seder in the heart of the Bible belt? In this hilarious post in Religious Dispatches, Dania Rajendra, a New York Jew, is in Jackson Mississippi for the Passover holiday where she tries to buy supplies for a Passover Seder dinner. At a wine store looking for wine, she’s shown bottles with labels that have pitchforks with the devil in the middle. Trying to find lamb, she can only... Read more
Three religious holidays this week– Holi, the Hindu festival of color that welcomes the arrival of Spring and officially begins on March 27th; Passover, the Jewish festival that commemorates the emancipation of Israelites from the Egyptians and runs from March 25 through April 2nd; and Easter, the Christian holiday that commemorates the resurrection of Jesus. Read more
Should Judge Judy earn 20 times what a Supreme Court Judge earns? Michael Jordan earns over $20 million dollars and Bill Gates is worth billions. Should those inequalities be permitted? This is what Michael Sandel’s popular Harvard philosophy course, What’s the Right Thing to do? is all about. It’s now on the web for free and will also be offered for free through EdX. You can read more about it at this Open Culture site. I use short clips from several of... Read more
The papacy isn’t the only thing that changed in the last eight years. Technology also changed as the picture above demonstrates. Thanks to my colleague, Jeff Feinstein, for sending me the link. Hard to believe what a difference eight years makes! Read more
Can an elementary school student hand out an invitation to classmates to a Christmas party at her church? Charles C Haynes, senior scholar at the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, discusses the decision by the three judge panel of the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. By ruling for the fifth grader’s right to pass out the invitation, the court has written a new chapter in the debate, according to Haynes. In effect, he suggests, “even in elementary schools, students... Read more
The Anti-Defamation League just launched a new campaign called “Imagine a World Without Hate” with this terrific video. My thanks to Larry Ferzallo for tweeting the link. Read more
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