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Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy2010-03-30
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
IFJ Backs Indian Calls for "Peace and Tolerance" in Media Reports of Religious Dispute2010-09-30
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for journalists to play their part in keeping the peace in India where there are fears of community violence in a long-running religious ...
Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries2010-01-04
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect o...
More than 180 Rights Organisations Reject Defamation of Religions Campaign2009-03-27
International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX)
More than 180 rights organisations worldwide have banded together to oppose a "defamation of religions" campaign at the UN mounted by Islamic states that would make criticising religion a crime in UN ...
Outrage at UN Human Rights Council resolution on defamation of religions2009-03-27
Reporters without Borders
In the resolution it adopted yesterday on the defamation of religions, the United Nations Human Rights Council has yet again demonstrated its inability to defend the values enshrined in the Universal ...
Quest for the Historical Jesus Begins Anew2008-12-09
Scholars gathered this past weekend for the inaugural meeting of The Jesus Project in a renewed quest for the historical Jesus. The project is an effort by historians, biblical scholars, and theologia...
Secularist Center for Inquiry Delivers Statement to UN Opposing "Defamation of Religions" Resolution 2009-11-04
Center for Inquiry
The Center for Inquiry (CFI), a secularist think tank and NGO has delivered a statement strongly opposing the proposed "Combating the Defamation of Religions" resolution backed by the Organization o...
Sources welcomes Kathleen Meadows - Psychic Advisor2009-02-03
Kathleen Meadows - Psychic Advisor
Kathleen is a Tarot Grandmaster teacher and certified psychic advisor with a M.A. in Religion and Culture. She combines a strong, credible academic background with psychic gifts to inform her wise and...
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance2009-10-22
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
Winnipeg to host international religious event June 21 to June 23, 20102010-05-04
University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg to host international religious event June 21 to June 23, 2010
Faith leaders to shadow G8/G20 Summit in Huntsville
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Anglican Church of Canada ArchivesOrganization
Anglican Church of Canada
Art, Religion and HatredReligious Intolerance in Russia and its Effects on Art
Article
2005
Article 19
Report on religious intolerance in Russia and its effects on artists and their freedom of expression.
Beyond the Sacred Malik, Kenan
Article
2012
A transcript on Malik's talk "Beyond the Sacred" at a conference on blasphemy.
Chinese shrine seeks stock-market path to financial nirvanaZhejiang's Mount Putuo is latest sacred site to contemplate listing, prompting alarm over commercialisation of Chinese culture
Branigan, Tania
Article
2012
The Guardian
Mount Putuo in Zhejiang is the latest of several religious sites whose administrators have announced plans for a multimillion-pound stock-market flotation.
Connexions Library: Religion FocusWebsite
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
Encyclopedia of Religion and SocietySwatos Jr., William H.
Book
1998
AltaMira Press
The sacred and profane continue to interface, conflict, and intermingle in novel ways. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society provides a guide map for these developments. From succinct, brief notes ...
Encyclopedia of Religion and Society (online version)Swatos, William H.
Website
Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Fifty years ago, Cassius Clay ‘shook up the world’ by winning the heavyweight title – and Marqusee, Mike
Article
2014
Red Pepper
The victory of the underdog who became Muhammad Ali – and how it wasn't just sport's hierarchies that were rocked by it. On the night of February 25, 1964, the 22 year old Cassius Clay defeated the su...
God: A Human History - a rescue attempt by Reza AslanBook review
Namazie, Maryam
Article
2017
Gods and religions have caused so much distress that even those who have spent a lifetime apologising for and ignoring the doctrinal foundations of their abuses must make a rescue attempt.
Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemySources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
Hundreds of Proofs of God's ExistenceArticle
2004
From the Atheists of Silicon Valley Humor Page.
IFJ Backs Indian Calls for "Peace and Tolerance" in Media Reports of Religious DisputeSources News Release
Article
2010
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for journalists to play their part in keeping the peace in India where there are fears of community violence in a long-running religious ...
The Islamophobia MythMalik, Kenan
Article
2005
Pretending that Muslims have never had it so bad might bolster community leaders and gain votes for politicians, but it does the rest of us, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, no favours at all. The more t...
Jesus and MoWebsite
A weekly comic strip, dealing in religious satire.
Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuriesSources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect o...
A Marxist History of the World Part 4: The origins of War and ReligionFaulkner, Neil
Article
2010
Counterfire
This week Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of War and Religion in the Early Neolithic world.
Merry Christmas from an AtheistMalik, Kenan
Article
2006
I probably represent one of Archbishop John Sentanu's worst nightmares - I am not just an 'aggressive secularist' but a militant atheist to boot. But I have a Christmas tree in the house, I've sent ou...
More than 180 Rights Organisations Reject Defamation of Religions CampaignSources News Release
Article
2009
International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX)
More than 180 rights organisations worldwide have banded together to oppose a "defamation of religions" campaign at the UN mounted by Islamic states that would make criticising religion a crime in UN ...
Muslims, Jews and Christians imposing an imagined past, with disastrous resultsDavidson, Lawrence
Article
2015
Redress Information & Analysis
The truth is that there are millions of people – Muslims, Jews and Christians and others – who not only still idealise a religiously imagined past, but want, in one way or another, to import that past...
Noah's ark was round – so the ancient tablet tells usMoss, Stephen
Article
2014
Guardian Weekly
Irving Finkel, curator of the British Museum's 130,000 Mesopotamian clay tablets, has spent 20 years investigating one that challenges the story of Noah and the flood.
On the Second Coming of ReligionMalik, Kenan
Article
2012
Wordpress
The question we should ask is not just: ‘What is it about religion that makes people believe or behave in certain ways?’ It is also: ‘What is it about contemporary societies that draws many people, bo...
Outrage at UN Human Rights Council resolution on defamation of religionsSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
In the resolution it adopted yesterday on the defamation of religions, the United Nations Human Rights Council has yet again demonstrated its inability to defend the values enshrined in the Universal ...
Preston Manning sees an Inquisition in science's name Diemer, Ulli
Article
2007
Mr. Manning's demagogic suggestion that atheists seek to deny believers freedom of conscience and expression has no basis in reality. On the contrary: no atheist would wish to deny Mr. Manning his rig...
Religion Topic Index in Sources Directory of ExpertsSpokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Website
Sources
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to religion in the Sources directory for the media.
The St. Petersburg DeclarationArticle
2007
We are secular Muslims, and secular persons of Muslim societies. We are believers, doubters, and unbelievers, brought together by a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free...
Sources Select Religion ExpertsSpokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Website
Religion experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
The Theology of RespectMalik, Kenan
Article
2006
What the new theology demands is, in fact, not respect but obedience. 'You will only say or do what we think is acceptable' has become the credo of the multiculturalist censor. It is an attitude that ...
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intoleranceSources News Release
Article
2009
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
United Church of Canada ArchivesOrganization
United Church of Canada
Using the divine for corporate powerReview of The Empire God Built
Cowan, Kirsten
Article
1998
Sources
When Does Criticism of Islam become Islamophobia?Malik, Kenan
Article
2013
Pandaemonium
Basic points that undergird about the relationship between criticism, Islam and Islamophobia. We should stop being so obsessed by the distinction between legitimate criticism and Islamophobia, and sta...
Why Bad Beliefs Don't DieLester, George W.
Article
2000
Skeptical Inquirer
Because beliefs are designed to enhance our ability to survive, they are biologically designed to be strongly resistant to change. To change beliefs, skeptics must address the brain's "survival" issue...
Why Do Jihadis Seem So Evil?Malik, Kenan
Article
2015
Kenan Malik
The day before the Paris carnage, two suicide bombers killed at least 40 people in a Shia district of Beirut. The week after, two suicide bombings of street markets in Nigeria killed 49 people. Faced ...
Why is Religion Natural?Boyer, Pascal
Article
2003
Skeptical Inquirer
Is religious belief a mere leap into irrationality as many skeptics assume? Psychology suggests that there may be more to belief than the suspension of reason.
Sources Bookshelf
The City in HistoryIts Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Mumford, Lewis
Book
1961
Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
The Empire God BuiltInside Pat Robertson's media machine
Foege, Alec
Book
1996
A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
Encyclopedia of Religion and SocietySwatos Jr., William H.
Book
1998
The sacred and profane continue to interface, conflict, and intermingle in novel ways. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society provides a guide map for these developments. From succinct, brief notes ...
The First Stone: Homosexuality and the United ChurchRiordon, Michael
Book
1990
A dramatic account of the tumultuous decade-long struggle in the United Church of Canada to balance faith, sexuality and human rights. Drawing on the church's history, and more than one hundred person...
Free SpeechA Very Short Introduction
Warburton, Nigel
Book
2009
Covers a wide-range of controversial free-speech issues, from Holocaust denial and pornography to the status of modern copyright law. Offers a concise quide to many of the vexing issues concerning our...
George Orwell: A LifeCrick, Bernard
Book
1980
A biography of George Orwell.
Medium7Evidence of the Afterlife and Predictions
Donna Smith-Moncrieffe
Book
2013
In the book Medium7: Evidence of the Afterlife and Predictions, renowned Canadian researcher and author Donna Smith-Moncrieffe shares insight from her journey to find truth about the nature of existen...
A Paradise Built in HellThe Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Solnit, Rebecca
Book
2010
The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearni...
Ahmadiyya GazetteThe Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, a worldwide community projecting the true message of Islam, has more than 70 million followers spread in over 160 countries around the world.
Ambassador Magazine Inc.Dedicated to highlighting the accomplishments and concerns of multicultural people in Canada and the world.
Anglican JournalNational news magazine of the Anglican Church of Canada. Covering issues of importance to Anglicans.
Awake!For Jehovah's Witnesses and the public, by Jehovah's Witnesses.
Canadian ChristianityChristian Info Society was established in 1982 to serve the Christian community through the enhancement and promotion of communication, co-operation, and continuity among Churches and para-Church orga...
Catholic InsightChristian heritage, liturgy, history, cultural, social and religious issues.
Catholic RegisterA national weekly newsmagazine about issues of interest to Catholics and others.
Christian CourierReporting events and providing commentary from a Christian perspective.
Faith TodaySeeking to inform, equip and inspire Christians across Canada.
Grace TVBroadcasts Religious programming dedicated to the Christian faith. Programming on Grace TV varies from ministry teachings, music, drama, movies, and documentaries.
Healthy Directions MagazineInformation, life stories and ideas that contribute to living a healthy life in mind, body and spirit and a more Earth-friendly existence. Free distribution to southern Ontario health food stores, boo...
Mennonite HistorianJournal devoted to articles and news items related to the history of Mennonites in Canada.
Pentecostal TestimonyCommunicating with the Pentecostal fellowship with a view to inform, instruct and inspire.
Presbyterian RecordIssues relative to the Christian faith and timely news analysis and opinions of interest especially to Presbyterians.
Presence MagazineInformation and reflection from a Christian perspective on events and tendancies of actual society.
Salt + Light TelevisionPrograms range from daily news and current events to special features and films. Most programming falls into one of five categories:
National and international stories of Catholic Action and Social J...
SynchronicityPersonal growth magazine exploring holistic living, complementary therapies, alternative spirituality, personal healing, healthier relationships, options for a better world. Each issue is based on a m...
Technologies for WorshipAn educational resource for churches who are applying tools of technology in their worship environment.
VisionTVCanada's multi-faith and multicultural broadcaster. VisionTV presents inspirational and original programming that celebrates diversity and promotes understanding among people of different faiths and c...
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