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Since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic has modernized and bureaucratized the clerical establishment, redefined religion and create...
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1. INTRODUCTION
Personal financial literacy is important to understanding the basic financial issues that most individuals and families must deal wi...
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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Syllabus
HEIN, DIRECTOR, WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF FAITH-BASED AND COMMUNITY INITIATIVES, ET AL. v...
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Muray contends that the nations of Central and Eastern Europe have alternately been pawns in geopolitical struggles. Tomka maintains that the reference to God provides a firm center for identity which is strong enough to integrate the multitude of partial identities as shaped in different spheres of life. Burgess remarks that the Russian Orthodox Church has successfully reestablished itself as an integral part of contemporary Russian culture. Bremer observes that, in Eastern Europe, religion was something the communist authorities regarded as backward, and they expected this phenomenon to vanish in the near future.
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Many a reader of the literature on this subject has noted that writers in the field propose rules of dialogue that tend to give off the refined vapors of the seminar room or the faculty lounge, not the pugnacious atmosphere of our daily political dialogue.4 In this Article, I hope to thread a path through both the timely and the timeless, by examining the eternal question of whether and how religion should involve itself in political debate through the words of the central actors: the political candidates themselves. [...] contrary to Romney, it is one of genuine engagement, which is ultimately the truest expression of respect for religion.
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Native American Mass: At 6 p.m. Aug. 20 at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, 131 Cathedral Place, the Most Rev. Michael J. Sheehan, archbishop of Santa Fe, will celebrate the annual Native American Mass in honor of all the artists and their families participating in the Indian Market as well as the Pueblo tribes of Northern New Mexico. All are welcome to attend.
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In 1938 Roberta Martin, one of the pioneers of Gospel music, published a song that interlaced her Christian experience with the historic hymn "Amazing...
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Scott Kline University of Waterloo
Abstract
In his book Consuming Religion (2003) Vincent J. Miller demonstrates how consumer capitalism has been ...
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In Lautsi v. Italy, a chamber of the European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) banned the display of the cross in school classrooms, arguing that such a display was a violation of religious freedom and of a parent's right to educate his children. In addition, the court awarded the petitioner 5,000 euros in nonpecuniary damages. Whether the unusual verdict was motivated by animus or disdain toward religion in general, or against the Catholic Church in particular, is uncertain. The decision did, however, imply an obligation to impose strict secularism in Europe.
The Lautsi v. Italy decision caused a worldwide stir for several reasons. First, the court inexplicably departed from its previous case law on the "margin of appreciation" doctrine, according to which such complex and delicate matters...