This week’s Religion in the News not only looks back on the week that was in “religion news,” but also to the entire year. Recently, religion reporters voted on the Top Religion News Stories of 2017. Many of these stories were featured in our Religion in the News feature posted each Friday on UF Religion’s RELIGION […]
Religion remains relevant. Just look at the headlines. The discipline of religious studies remains relevant to interpret those headlines. Why? Because religious literacy is severely lacking these days. Check out these “Religion in the News” headlines and see the religion angles abound. Who knows, you might just learn something: The relevance of religious studies (Sightings) cue […]
It’s cold outside…well, maybe not in Florida…but the religion news is heating up. Here are a few headlines from the world of Religion in the News this week: HERe’s where evangelicals are giving money (Christianity Today) every day glory and indigenous american spirituality (RNS) trump tweets unverified videos from anti-muslim far-right political party (the washington post) resisting […]
Remember that ole’ “secularization thesis?” You know the one, that idea that traditional religions would go by the wayside in the industrialised world? Well, anyone who still reckons that’s the case hasn’t read the headlines recently. In fact, this week we’ve almost got too much Religion in the News! From Muslims in South Korea to sausage […]
Religion and society interact in multiple ways — from politics to pop-culture, fashion to technology. This week’s Religion in the News stories explore the variety of ways religion and society are all cobbled together for good and for ill. Here are the articles we found below: Bhalla defeats defusco to win hoboken mayoral race (NJ.com) MET Museum […]
For this week’s Religion in the News stories we wanted to explore a variety of perspectives on the academic study of religion, perspectives on the field, and research within it. Here are the articles we found below: Can Evangelicals and Academics Talk to One Another? (The Wall Street Journal) PROBlems in the big tent of “religion […]
For this week’s Religion in the News stories, we didn’t have to look far. All we had to do was focus on our top-notch faculty as they address critical issues and important events in religion and culture. Take a look at their religion and news commentaries and analysis below: Religion prof Explains diwali holiday (UF […]
This week’s Religion in the News stories focus on many diverse issues having to do with religion in the modern world, but the BIG story is connected to the religious accents of fear around today — Friday the 13th: RELIGIOUS ROOTS OF FRIDAY THE 13th (NATional GEOGRAPHIC) MAN DRESSED AS SHARK FALLS AFOUL OF AUSTRIA’S […]
This week’s Religion in the News stories emphasize not only the diversity of religious experiences, positions, and practices, but also address how religious individuals, and institutions, are reacting to modern technology, communication, travel, and social issues: On this kenyan Commute, the train becomes a church (RNS) HASIDIC JEWS, AMISH, WRESTLE WITH TECH (ISR Baylor REligion […]
Religion has always been with us. And it isn’t going away. Throughout history, it has expressed the deepest questions human beings can ask, and it has taken a central place in the lives of virtually all civilizations and cultures. Indeed, even today, we find religion everywhere we turn. In order to illustrate how relevant religion is […]
Religion has always been with us. And it isn’t going away. Throughout history, it has expressed the deepest questions human beings can ask, and it has taken a central place in the lives of virtually all civilizations and cultures. Indeed, even today, we find religion everywhere we turn. In order to illustrate how relevant religion is […]