01: Several evangelical leaders made news last summer when an open letter was issued calling for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most of the winter issue of the Review of Faith & International Affairs is devoted to the statement and the controversy and issues surrounding it. Along with reprinting the statement, the issue […]

01: For its 40th anniversary issue (#3, 2007), Faith & Form, a magazine on religious architecture, features an in-depth symposium on how the appearances and functions of congregations and the spaces surrounding them are changing in response to religious and social transformations. The lead article by Richard Vosko sees the shift away from organized religion so […]

01: As a result of a growing interest in religions and their role in society, new websites and newsletters in different languages are making an appearance. Several of them are edited by people with a background in religious studies. A few months ago, Yunus, a new website on religion, was launched (http://www.yunusnews.com). It describes itself as “dedicated […]

01: The summer issue of Nieman Reports, the journal of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, is devoted to Islam and the media. The considerable diversity of topics covered in this issue suggests that the usual question of how reporters “missed” the role of Islam in world affairs is by now an old story. In […]

01: The July issue of The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science is devoted to the issue of the new pluralism in American religion. The issue, guest edited by Wade Clark Roof, is divided into sections on general history and theory, region and religion, minority and immigrant experiences, and institutional patterns (such as interfaith […]

01: The summer issue of the evangelical-based journal Faith & International Affairs is devoted to “religion and torture in an age of terrorism”–an issue just moving on to the evangelical agenda. The centerpiece of the issue is the Evangelical Declaration Against Torture issued by a new group called Evangelicals for Human Rights. Because torture is a new […]

01: The current issue of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies (Winter) is devoted to fundamentalism and democracy. Although tomes have been written on this subject, the issue carries some interesting articles on conservative (not necessarily fundamentalist) religion and politics. An article by economists David Chen and Jo Thori Lind looks at the relationship between social and fiscal conservatism. […]

01: The January issue of the journal Contemporary Sociology features a special section on religion, though in an unusual manner. The journal asked sociologists of religion Andrew Greeley, Michelle Dillon, Helen Ebaugh and Daniel Olson, to review the same group of books dealing with changes in American religion (including Mark Chaves‘ Congregations in America, R. Stephen Warner‘s […]

01: In recent years, the number of books on the presence of religion online has increased, from general overviews to collections of essays on mainstream or new religious groups and their use of the Internet. The new book by Anastasia Karaflogka, E-religion (Equinox Publishing, $27.95) proposes “a critical appraisal of religious discourse on the World Wide Web.” […]