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  • 26 Oct 2012
    Facebook, privacy, pluralism and belief

    The experience of being a new Facebook user prompts wider and deeper thoughts on 'friending', community and privacy for theologian Graeme Smith. Despite the promises of heavenly or earthly paradises made by ardent followers of this or that religious or political cause, all will become hellish if pluralism and therefore privacy is not protected and enhanced, he suggests.

  • 25 Oct 2012
    Animal cruelty makes 'a morally unsafe world for human beings'

    Animal cruelty crimes should be treated with the same seriousness as crimes against humans, claims leading psychologist Professor Eleonora Gullone.

  • 19 Oct 2012
    The art of protest: A Future That Works

    The Trades Union Congress (TUC), along with Guy Atkins of Goldsmiths University, has launched a best banner or placard competition for the 20 October 'A Future That Works' anti-austerity march and rally in central London, with parallel events in Glasgow and Belfast.

  • 19 Oct 2012
    Fans' alternative plan for the future of Scottish football published

    A supporters' plan for the future of Scottish football has been launched by policy group FansFirst Scotland, as concerns over the national game continue.

  • 14 Oct 2012
    The changing demography of US belief and non-belief

    As we have reported in our News Briefs, fresh and updated data from the Pew Research Center in the US shows that the number of Americans who do not identify with any religion is growing at a rapid pace (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/17168).

  • 14 Oct 2012
    Number of Americans not identified with any religion grows

    A report from the Pew Research Center in the US shows that the number of Americans who do not identify with any religion is growing at a rapid pace.

  • 9 Oct 2012
    Scholar depicts Luther in traditional Japanese Noh drama

    Japan's Noh theatre meets Protestant Reformation as a Japanese scholar develops a play featuring 16th-century German reformer Martin Luther.

  • 9 Oct 2012
    What is political science?

    In this provocative reflection, Timothy Fitzgerald explains why he has become sceptical about the idea of a universal domain of politics, and what it means to claim that such a world exists. He begins to suggest that ‘the world of politics’ is as much a faith-imaginary as those beliefs typically attributed to ‘the world of religion’. Its questionable status is demonstrated by an ideological illusion that Fitzgerald looks at in his recent book, Religion and Politics in International Relations: the Modern Myth (Continuum, 2011). To be continued.

  • 9 Oct 2012
    Indigenous colonial texts: conversion and subversion

    In written documentation from colonial times many indigenous authors are not victims only, but innovative individuals, bringing together their own belief forms with Christian traditions and thus creating genres and contents of their own and for their own objectives, says Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar.

  • 8 Oct 2012
    Leading animal ethicists call for full disclosure on testing

    Patients prescribed drugs tested on animals should be given exact details, including any suffering caused, say leading animal ethicists.