With religious fundamentalism rising and faith at center stage in politics worldwide, PBS is offering a seven-part series, "Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason." He interviews authors worldwide, starting with Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" sparked Ayatollah Khomeini to call for his death. It airs here at 10 p.m. Friday on WMVS-TV (Channel 10). For previews, go to www.pbs.org/moyers. Reporter Tom Heinen interviewed Moyers by e- mail. You write that the series is a response to: a new federal judge appointed by President Bush eager for a fight-to-the finish "war" against secular humanists; evangelical leaders trying to punish judges who aren't true believers; Saudi Arabian textbooks still teaching Muslim children not to befriend children of "false" faiths; Texas Republi...
For the last 30 years, religion has taken a dominant role in world politics. Technically, we may be in the Information Age, but politically we are passing through the Era of Fundamentalism. Anyone who has read Karen Armstrong's "The Battle for God" would say that the world has become a battleground for God. Religion is an efficient tool to maintain law and order. It provides moral code to fashion our lives. Whereas governmental laws require a huge apparatus for their implementation, religion provides a moral compass to achieve the same. Religion also serves as a glue to keep a society together. According to evolutionary biologist Robin Dunbar, religious rituals trigger the release of endorphins. Because most of these rituals are performed in a group, the endorphin rush makes participant...
[RALPH HALL] was alive during Tennessee's Scopes Monkey Trial but Clarence Darrow's stirring defense of science didn't have much evident effect on him. Of climate change, Hall says, "I'm really more fearful of freezing. And I don't have any science to prove that. His first session in the Legislature was one for the books. It opened with his organizing a semi-official "Election Sermon" by a fundamentalist preacher from Arkansas who told the assembled conservative legislators that they were on a "divine assignment." Then he launched a failed crusade against the Transportation Security Administration's "groping" policy at airports that came to an end when the Department of Justice threatened to shut down air travel in Texas. [DAVID SIMPSON] followed that by trying to kill an uncontroversi...
..., so pure and sincere in his tea party politics and religious fundamentalism that he strikes fear ...
Saha, Santosh C. (ed.). Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World: Critical... in the Study of Comparative Religious Politics" gives intellectual credibility to Sinha's G10. Cr...
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... for a new and terrifying age of religious war." In his erudite exploration of religious funddamentalism and politics, Asian takes us from Colorado Springs to Masada, f...
In the brewing conflict between the U. S. and the Arab world, religious fanaticism plays a role. Religious zealots are on the military frontline in the Arab world and on policy boards in America. Cultural context has a role in the development of fanaticism. In America, people seek extreme religion in order to deal with the alienation of living in a rapidly changing society. In contrast, Arabs are mobilized by extreme religion in order to change a stagnant political culture. In the West, original ways of worship evolve to calm society down in an excessively stimulating environment; in the Muslim world, radical religious movements are formed to agitate people politically. Despite their popularity, Arab fundamentalist groups lack the political maturity to innovate democratically. Arabs' re...
... world, where the economy worsens and politics deteriorate, fundamentalism mrives. As long as mod...
MacEoin interviews Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, one of South Asia's leading nuclear physicists and a preeminent intellectual. They discuss, among other things, Muslims and science.
... domain into national and international politics. Whenever and wherever religious fundamentalism do...
The topic of religious fundamentalism and its political impact have been confined lately to the Islamic variety. Christian fundamentalism is beginning to attract scholarly attention, but Jewish fundamentalism has rarely been subjected to rigorous analysis. Several factors account for this, including general Western reluctance to broach such topics which may raise anti-Semitic charges, as well as the inaccessibility of Hebrew-language reference material to the average researcher. Shahak and Mezvinsky are eminently qualified to write on this subject not only because of their religious affiliation, but also, in the case of the late Shahak, because of his extensive commitment to human rights issues.
... (religious fundamentalists) in Israeli politics and society as a result of the Oslo peace process ...
... of identity, which is rooted in the politics of inclusion or exclusion. These are tied to claim...Political ethnicity, religious fundamentalism and virulent nationalism have led to the emergence...
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