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This is the companion forum to Religion Compass, a unique online review journal for religious studies. It provides original content that maintains a stimulating balance between scholarly rigor and free-form discussion. We publishe short posts from prominent scholars, in addition to regular religiously-oriented news, book promotion items and digests of the week's best religious studeis blog content.

• Added on: Nov 24th, 2008
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: Liam Cooper
• Listed in: Religion Education & Learning
• Tags: news Faith current affairs ethics Belief religious studies

Recent Posts

• NEWS: Muslim Treatment of Minorities Condemned at Parliament of the World’s Religions

  Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 17:28 in religion, globalization, melbourne, Islam, iran, christians, muhammad, jews, Secularism, bahai, islamophobia, religious freedom

  “How Islam treats minorities is excessive, no question’’, the former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister said in Melbourne on Saturday. Anwar Ibrahim, who is now an opposition leader, told the participants at Parliament of the World’s Religions t...

• NEWS: H1N1 and the Hajj, Part Two

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 12:50 in religion, politics, news, health, muslim, Faith, pilgrimage, Islam, saudi arabia, ban, hajj, religious studies

  Last summer, Arab health ministers and the World Health Organization decided to ban certain groups of people from making the hajj pilgrimage this year because of fears the H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as “swine flu,” would spread more quickly...

• NEWS: Religion and AIDS

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 11:50 in religion, news, Church, information, virus, advice, muslim, Faith, homosexual, death, Islam, pandemic

  Today marks the twenty-first World Aids Day, yet despite a massive growth in knowledge of the infection, its transmission and its treatment, people continue to become infected. Robert Pigott, Religious Affairs Correspondent for the BBC has looked at ...

• Religion Compass December Issue – now available

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 11:47 in africa, Identity, Spirituality, yoga, muslim, General, African-American, Divination, agency, epistemology, hindu, islamism

    Online ISSN: 1749-8171    Print ISSN: 1749-8171 Religion Compass Volume3, Issue6,2009. Early View (Articles Available Online in Advance of Print) © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd   African Religions   921...

• NEWS: Religion and Workplace Discrimination

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 17:53 in religion, christian, news, human rights, Faith, employment, law, ethics, care, discrimination, homosexuality, illegal

  The European Commission has demanded that the British government amends its legislation relating to discrimination in the workplace. Although discrimination in the workplace was outlawed within the European Union in 2000, Britain did not enshrine thi...

• COMMENT: What is Islamism? A Muslim Replies

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 09:00 in religion, politics, christianity, europe, Faith, Islam, iran, pakistan, judaism, quran, scripture, muhammad

  By Ishtiaq Hussain The Quilliam Foundation Download full PDF version Background Like Christianity and Judaism, Islam is an Abrahamic faith and a Monotheistic religion. Its followers are called Muslims. Islam was founded in Arabia in the 7th century...

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