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Chronicle -- Martin E. Marty
HYPERLINK "http://www.chronicle.com" The Chronicle of Higher Education, which gives ever more coverage to religion in the academy, gives space to it in its September 6 issue, "One Year Later." Samples: Kenneth W. Hearlson, a political science profes...
September 9, 2002
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A Just War? -- James Evans
Momentum is building for a war with Iraq. The Bush Administration has been leaking information to, among other things, measure public opinion and uncover what questions a war with Iraq would provoke. What questions should it provoke? Should we qu...
September 6, 2002
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A Just War? -- James Evans
Momentum is building for a war with Iraq. The Bush Administration has been leaking information to, among other things, measure public opinion and uncover what questions a war with Iraq would provoke. What questions should it provoke? Should we qu...
September 6, 2002
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Your Two Cents -- Martin E. Marty
The two Sightings reporting on reservations about or criticisms of war with Iraq drew by far the largest response in the history of this e-mail column. By design, every one of my columns fits on one printed page. This time I’ll go on longer, to give ...
September 3, 2002
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Of Proselytizing and Subway Tracts -- Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez
As an inhabitant of a religiously vibrant city in a religiously vibrant nation, my "sightings" of religion in public life often come from the street. Lately my husband and I have been watching the tract war between Jews for Jesus and the Jewish Commu...
August 30, 2002
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Fairness and Forced Taxpayer Support of Religion -- Frank L. Pasquale
Debate about school voucher systems and other tax-based support for religious institutions understandably invokes discussion of fairness and justice: for low-income parents and their children, for sectarian school parents and their children, and for ...
August 22, 2002
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More Voices Seldom Heard -- Martin E. Marty
Next month in Nebraska I am to speak on non-violence -- domestic and international -- and education. While researching, I did a quick mental canvass. It is hard to think of any media coverage of religious witness against war in Iraq. Before the G...
August 19, 2002
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Uzbekistan's New Clerics -- Eren Tasar
Islamic belief remained strong among Uzbekistan's traditionally Muslim population during the Soviet period. Thousands of "secret" places of worship appeared around a handful of official mosques tolerated by the government. At the same time, Soviet ru...
August 15, 2002
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Voices Seldom Heard -- Martin E. Marty
Last week we mentioned how rare have been the reported-on voices of religious figures questioning the potential war against Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Also rarely reported on are religious questionings of American responses after 9/11. Maybe there have ...
August 13, 2002
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Nietzsche and The Prayer of Jabez -- Brian Britt
Since its appearance two years ago, Bruce Wilkinson's The Prayer of Jabez (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000) has sold over six million copies and has led to the creation of a small industry -- the Breakthrough Series -- based on prayers th...