Two days ago, Karen L. King, Hollis Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School, identified a scrap of papyrus in which Jesus speaks of “his wife,” the first time Jesus has explicitly referred to a wife.
Posts Tagged ‘Christianity’
August 29th, 2012
Pakistan and blasphemy
posted by Candice ScharfTIF contributor Dr. Ebrahim Moosa recently posted on his blog a statement written by Mawlana Ammar Khan Nasir, editor of the Urdu monthly journal “al-Sharia,” regarding the current Pakistani blasphemy charge against Rimsha Mosin, an underage Christian girl.
August 7th, 2012
Loss of faith in religious institutions
posted by Candice ScharfNPR recently reported on a Gallup poll, which showed Americans’ faith in organized religion and religious institutions has declined.
July 12th, 2012
Bible, flowers, and relevance
posted by Candice ScharfJohn Boy, contributing editor to The Immanent Frame and an associate editor of Frequencies, reflects on his recent visit to Amsterdam’s Bijebels Museum.
June 19th, 2012
Is religion free?
posted by Michael Lambek
To this stimulating and learned series of posts I cannot add much about the genealogy of religious freedom or its fate in the US courts, never mind predict the consequences of judicial decisions, or even address a larger question raised by Winni Sullivan and others which, I take it, has to do with the general effects of submitting questions of religious practice to a particular kind of legal system, one that works by means of precedents, binding decisions, etc. I make two comments as an anthropologist.
May 29th, 2012
Intolerance in Indonesia
posted by David SloaneLast week at The New York Times, human rights advocate Benedict Rogers wrote an op-ed piece on the state of religious relations in Indonesia.
April 12th, 2012
Looking at religiosity and the Bible Belt
posted by Phillip QuinteroRichard Florida follows up on what exactly the recent Gallup poll on differences in religiosity by state tells us about America. He compares the poll’s findings with his own socioeconomic data, which confirms correlations identified by the longstanding World Values Survey:
April 12th, 2012
Freeing religion at the birth of South Sudan
posted by Noah SalomonIf you had the opportunity to start from scratch, without the burden of a permanent constitution or an entrenched legal system, if you were, in other words, a founding father/mother of a new-born nation, what relationship would you forge between religion and state?
April 9th, 2012
Harmful prayer?
posted by Candice ScharfOn April 2nd, Dallas District Court Judge Martin Hoffman ruled that it is legal to pray for God to harm someone as long as no one is actually threatened or harmed.
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