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Given how difficult it is to get publishers to our meeting, we have tried to do onsite bookstores in the past. Even that is challenging, so this year we’re trying something different. We’ve asked publishers to send us one copy of each book written by our members, and we will have them up as a […]

Like just about any multiple choice “standards” test, the Pew Survey of religious knowledge was much less newsworthy to me than many of our news media seemed to think it should be. But here is a collection of scholarly opinions/explorations concerning it which I find at least a little bit interesting. As I wrote in

The Interfaith Youth Core has just published a really useful guide to “leadership in the face of religious bigotry” that draws together a timeline of the public events leading up to the debate over an Islamic Cultural Center in NYC, a series of op-ed pieces that Eboo Patel has written, and a lovely collection of

For anyone who couldn’t get to the American Academy of Religion (AAR) meeting last year (or who was there, but didn’t attend the plenary sessions), the AAR has kindly put up video from the sessions on the web. We’ve done some filming of our last REA meeting, as well, and hope to get our own

I’m so excited about the upcoming annual meeting of the REA/APPRRE, not least because the latest issue of our journal just came out and I think it’s a wonderful, microcosmic example of what our field is about. Just look at the titles (and this issue should be available online through most libraries): “Religious education and

Sightings, a University of Chicago/Martin Marty Center publication, writes of the thorny dilemma currently being lived through in England around admissions to Jewish schools. Who gets to decide, when the competition is steep, who is Jewish? Is the test for that decision a practice-oriented test or a test of belief or a test of matrilineal

I’ve been trying to coax Ronald Moore, who is the producer of both Battlestar Galactica and Caprica, to come to our November meeting and talk about it. So far, no success (but he hasn’t turned us down yet!). In any case, for those of you who have no idea what Battlestar Galactica is about, you

For those of you who are new to blogging, you might find the Social Science Research Council‘s recent report on the “the religion blogosphere” an interesting resource. The report, available both as a website and in .pdf form, includes a brief introduction to the role of blogs in the wider media sphere, as well as

Here’s a conference, being held April 11-13 in Rochester, NY, that some of you might be interested in. It’s focused on interfaith understanding, and is full of creative interaction through art and music-based events.

A set of numbers seeking to describe the ‘net these days. (Hat tip to FreeRangeLearning)