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Mamata Banerjee’s problematic Durga Puja push

By promoting religion, the Mamata government is venturing into dangerous territory

The Hindu

Uttar Pradesh: Man held for pressuring wife to convert

LUCKNOW: Police here arrested a man for allegedly luring a woman into marriage by introducing himself as a Hindu and then pressuring her to change her religion, a statement said on Sunday.

The Times of India

New book on divorce laws in India launched

A new book on divorce laws and various religions in the post-colonial era was released at the India International Centre, New Delhi on September 2, 2022.

The Times of India

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Barbara Ehrenreich, muckraking writer and activist, dies

Barbara Ehrenreich, the muckraking author, activist and journalist who in such notable works as “Nickel and Dimed” and “Bait and Switch” challenged conventional thinking about class, religion and the very idea of an American dream, has died at age 81

The Independent UK

What's it like to date as a religious person?

Throughout time, the dating game has always been an adventure. Today, religion can play an important role in matchmaking within a globalised world.

France 24

‘Where is the evidence?’: critics take aim at NT judge who says antiracism is becoming ‘a religion’

Opponents say it is ‘surprising’ for Judith Kelly to claim that ‘on the whole, modern Australian society is not racist’, in speech on Indigenous domestic violence

The Guardian - AU

Dining across the divide: ‘When I got home, I Googled “bromance”’

Two Labour voters with an equal loathing of the Tories lock horns over retirement age and religion

The Guardian - UK

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A NT Supreme Court Judge Thinks Antiracism Is Turning Into A ‘Religion Or A Cult’ Really, Babe?

Do we really want to be comparing fighting racism to a cult?

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NT supreme court judge says antiracism is becoming ‘a religion or a cult’

Justice Judith Kelly uses speech on Indigenous domestic violence to claim there’s a ‘culture in some communities that tolerates violence against women’

The Guardian - AU

Bid to change Queensland law that allows religious schools to discriminate against gay teachers

Under proposed changes, only school staff involved in direct teaching of religion could be subject to different rules

The Guardian - AU

Easton Jamia Mosque opens its doors as part of national 'Visit My Mosque' day

'No question is offensive to me, I think it’s really important to be open and honest and allow people to express themselves'

Bristol Post

Eight reasons why the US still has the death penalty

A messy mix of politics, punishment, religion and tradition result in the death penalty having a secure future in the USA.

360info

SC lawmakers who sponsored $1.5M earmark for Upstate Christian school claim misunderstanding

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two state lawmakers who sponsored a $1.5 million budget earmark for an Upstate Christian organization that has announced plans to build a residential school with the money claim the project has been misrepresented. They insist the nonprofit is not actually building a private educational institution, and one…

Tribune News Service

Protecting People from Their Own Religious Communities: Judicial Evaluation of a Religious Community's Qualities

This new article of mine will be coming out next year in the Journal of Law and Religion, and I thought I'd serialize it here; there's still plenty of time for editing, so I'd love to hear people's feedback. Here's Part III (Part II is more doctrinal, so I'm skipping…

Reason

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The Independent UK

Shia LaBeouf reveals he converted to Catholicism after studying religion for Padre Pio film

‘I know now that God was using my ego to draw me to Him. Drawing me away from worldly desires’

Axios

Percentage of Latinos who have no religious affiliation surges

The percentage of Hispanics in the U.S. who identify as atheist or agnostic grew in the past 12 years.

The Hindu

Savarkar photographs at Ganesha pandals an insult to Hindu religion: Hariprasad

Congress leader calls the Hindutva ideologue an atheist

The Independent UK

Oz's Senate bid could be a Muslim first but is 'complicated'

If Dr. Mehmet Oz is elected to the U.S. Senate this fall, he'll be the first Muslim to serve in the chamber

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Georgia Supreme Court on Sincerity and Religious Exemptions

An unusually detailed discussion of what factors court should consider in deciding whether a religious exemption request is sincere (generally a threshold requirement for the request to stand any chance of prevailing).

Radio France Internationale

Paris commemorates St Bartholomew massacre, 450 years later

Paris has decided to make more visible its commemoration of the St Bartholomew massacre of Protestants 450 years ago on 24 August 1572, by renaming a park in the city centre.

Reason

Protecting People from Their Own Religious Communities: Pseudonymity of Litigants

The Conversation

Yoga versus democracy? What survey data says about spiritual Americans' political behavior

As the United States gets less religious, is it also getting more selfish?

Reason

Protecting People from Their Own Religious Communities: Jane Doe in Church and State

This new article of mine will be coming out next year in the Journal of Law and Religion, and I thought I'd serialize it here; there's still plenty of time for editing, so I'd love to hear people's feedback. Here's the Introduction: [* * *] Debates about religious exemptions often…

The Hindu

Karnataka High Court declines plea that claimed words used in Azan hurt sentiments of people of other religions

Petitioner had sought a direction to authorities to stop the use of loudspeakers in mosques for Azan

The Independent UK

Anger over Texas mandate requiring ‘In God We Trust’ posters in every school: ‘Religion imposed on public’

Law requires posters to be displayed ‘in a conspicuous place’ in all schools

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