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On/File: January 2001

January 1, 2001 by Richard Cimino

01: The fledgling Institute for Global Engagement represents an attempt to bring the growing concern over religious persecution and conflict into the world of scholarship. The institute is the brainchild of Robert Seiple, a former U.S. State Department official who was in charge of implementing the International Religious Freedom Act, a bill to protect religious minorities against […]

Filed Under: On/File

Findings & Footnotes: January 2001

January 1, 2001 by Richard Cimino

01: Three recent issues of Center Conversations (No. 5, 7 and 8), a newsletter of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, serve as good introductions to recent trends in Catholic, evangelical, and Jewish communities. Each issue features a main address on developments in each tradition followed by a roundtable discussion by journalists and scholars. Originally a series […]

Filed Under: Findings & Footnotes

Whirling dervishes face strife over including women

January 1, 2001 by Richard Cimino

Turkey’s Whirling Dervishes, Muslims practicing mystical dances, are experiencing the same divisions existing between moderate and militant Islam throughout the world, particularly over the role of women. The Washington Post (Dec. 25) reports that the dervishes, known for their whirling, trance-like dances which are seen as a way of communicating with God, have traditionally been for […]

Filed Under: Archive

Churches in Europe, Ukraine adopt show-biz style

January 1, 2001 by Richard Cimino

A “radical” youth-oriented church movement in Europe is growing by using high tech entertainment-oriented services, reports Charisma magazine (January). Membership at Zurich’s International Christian Fellowship (ICF) has grown sharply in the past four years, as it has branched out to  seven other congregations in other parts of Switzerland, and neighboring Germany. The church’s services — which are called […]

Filed Under: Archive

Current Research: January 2001

January 1, 2001 by Richard Cimino

01: The new attention focused on exorcism by churches, as well as the re-release of the film The Exorcist, may well  convince people that they have been involved in or have witnessed these rituals, according to a study reported in the Skeptical Inquirer (January/February). The research, conducted by University of Washington psychologist Elizabeth Loftus and Giuliana Mazzoni of Seton […]

Filed Under: Current Research

Churches take advantage of growth of grassroots radio

January 1, 2001 by Richard Cimino

Many churches are forming new radio ministries through the growth of new low power FM stations. Charisma News Service (Dec. 28) reports that about half of the first 255 new low-power FM (LPFM) licenses offered by the U.S. government’s broadcast licensing body have gone to churches and ministries. Operating at between 50 and 100 watts, the […]

Filed Under: Archive

The Way encounters leadership scandal, more decline

January 1, 2001 by Richard Cimino

The Way International (TWI), a movement that gained many followers and notoriety in the 1970s, appears to be on an accelerated course of decline after sexual scandals involving leaders and law suits against the organization have recently been revealed. The Christian Research Journal (Volume 23, Number 1), an evangelical countercult publication, reports that The Way, a group […]

Filed Under: Archive

Kwanzaa faces commercialization

January 1, 2001 by Richard Cimino

Kwanzaa, the cultural and spiritual holiday for African-Americans, is being commercialized and is facing criticism by purists, according to a report in the Dallas Morning News (Dec. 27). American blacks spend as much as $700 million on Kwanzaa-related merchandise. Such mainstream retailers as Target, Pier 1, and Borders Books are competing with stores catering specifically to blacks […]

Filed Under: Archive

American Muslim influence finds acceptance abroad

January 1, 2001 by Richard Cimino

American Muslims are increasingly influencing their fellow believers in other parts of the world, reports the Los Angeles Times (Dec. 29). Although American Muslims are a small fraction of the one billion Muslims worldwide, they are wielding significant influence in business practices and economic development in their homelands “through a mushrooming number of non-profit organizations,” writes Teresa […]

Filed Under: Archive

Conservative believers band together to influence UN on family

January 1, 2001 by Richard Cimino

Conservative Christians are banding together and intensifying their activism in the global arena, particularly on family issues in the United Nations, reports the current issue of The Public Eye (Summer/Fall), a leftist newsletter monitoring the religious right. “Frustrated with political defeats at the national level, the Christian Right is turning to the developing world as an innocent, […]

Filed Under: Archive

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