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In the News . . .

• Why Religion Makes Only Some of Us Happy -- LiveScience (25 January 2012)
  
  
• Perceptions of Mormonism in the US (Infographic) -- LiveScience (24 January 2012)
  
  
• Why Does Religion Keep Telling Us We're Bad? -- Guardian (22 November 2011)
  
  
• World's Earliest Christian Engraving Shows Surprising Pagan Elements -- LiveScience (30 September 2011)
  
  
• Does Religion Influence Epidemics? -- Science (23 August 2011)
  
  
• Understanding Islam and Science -- LiveScience (28 July 2011)
  
  
• 'Holy Shroud made by Giotto'- Hidden number 15 key to authorship and dating claims expert -- ANSA (09 June 2011)
  
  
• Who Are the Coptic Christians? -- Guardian (11 May 2011)

• Al-Islam.org -- Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (DILP)
  
  
• African-American Religion: A Documentary History Project -- Amherst College
  
  
• The Aleppo Codex Online -- Ben-Zvi Institute
  
  
• American Institute of Buddhist Studies
  
  
• Animal Sacrifice In Brazilian Folk Religion -- ScienceDaily (25 August 2009)
  
  
• Anthropologists Develop New Approach To Explain Religious Behavior -- Science Daily (9/9/08)
  • University of Missouri Anthropologist Develops New Approach to Explain Religious Behavior -- EurekAlert (9/9/08)
    
    
• Anthropology of Religion -- archaeolink.com
  
  
• The Association of Jewish Libraries
  
  
• Bamiyan Buddhas Once Glowed in Red, White and Blue -- ScienceDaily (25 February 2011)
  
  
• In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000 -- Freer + Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution
  
  
• Belief in Witchcraft Widespread in Africa -- LiveScience (30 August 2010)
  
  
• Bible Geocoding -- openbible.info
  
  
• Bible Possibly Written Centuries Earlier, Text Suggests -- Live Science (15 January 2010)
  
  
• Biblical Plagues Really Happened Say Scientists -- Telegraph (27 March 2010)
  
  
• Brains of Buddhist Monks Scanned in Meditation Study -- BBC News (23 April 2011)
  
  
• Bulletin of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity -- Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Colleges Digital Library
  
  
• The Buddhist Religion (glossaries) -- babylon
  
  
• CIF Belief (Comment is Free) -- The Guardian
  
  
• Civilisations -- BBC
  
  
• Codex Sinaiticus ("Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world")
  
  
• "College students continue to have strong interest in spirituality" -- Scout Report
  
  
• Comment is Free > CIF Belief -- The Guardian
  
  
• Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Chant & Hymnody -- Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress
  
  
• Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
  
  
• creationism and evolution
  
  

• Crusades . . . "It was on this day in 1095 that Pope Urban II, while on a speaking tour in France, called for the first Crusade to recapture Jerusalem from the Turks. There was no imminent threat. Muslims had occupied Jerusalem for hundreds of years. But Urban II had noticed that Europe was becoming an increasingly violent place, with low-level knights killing each other over their land rights, and he thought that he could bring peace to the Christian world by directing all that violence against an outside enemy. So he made up stories of how Turks in Jerusalem were torturing and killing Christians, and anyone who was willing to join the fight against them would go to heaven."

  "About 100,000 men from France, Germany, and Italy answered the call, formed into several large groups, and marched across Asia Minor to the Middle East. Nearly half of them died from exhaustion and sickness before they ever reached their destination. They began sacking cities along the way, and they fought among each other for the spoils of each battle. When they reached the trading city of Antioch, they killed almost everyone, including the Christians who lived there. By the time they got to Jerusalem, it had recently fallen into the hands of Egyptians, who were friendly with the Vatican. But the crusaders attacked anyway, killing every Muslim they could find. The Jews in the city gathered in the temple, and the crusaders set it on fire."

  Pope Urban II died two weeks later, never hearing the news." -- Garrison Keilor, The Writers Almanac, (27 November 2009)

• Dalai Lama
  
  
• Divine Intervention? New Research Looks at Beliefs About God's Influence in Everyday Life -- EurekAlert (09 March 2010)
  
  
• Earliest Reference Describes Christ as 'Magician' -- Discovery (10/1/08)
  • Earliest Reference Describes Christ as 'Magician' -- MSNBC (10/1/08)
    
    
• Evangelists of Empire? Missionaries in Colonial History -- eScholarship Research Centre, The University of Melbourne
  
  
• Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos -- United States National Library of Medicine
  
  
• The Evolution of the God Gene -- New York Times (14 November 2009)
  
  
• Farmers' Beliefs on a Higher Plain -- Science Daily (27 May 2010)
  
  
• A fishy tale of Christianity in Ancient Rome -- Times Online (11 April 2009)
  
  
• Fox, Robin. The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind. Harvard University Press, 2011.
  • Ch. 1 "Time out of Mind
  • Ch. 4 "Sects and Evolution
  • Ch. 5 "Which Ten Commandments"
    
    
• The God Gene -- New York Times (24 December 2009)
  
  
• Haiti Earthquake & Voodoo: Myths, Ritual, and Robertson -- National Geographic News (25 January 2010)
  
  
• How to Listen to God -- Guardian (04 March 2010)
  
  
• Is Believing In God Evolutionarily Advantageous? -- NPR (30 August 2010)
  
  
• 'Jesus-Era' Burial Cloth Casts Doubt on Turin Shroud -- Discovery News (17 December 2009)
  
  
• Jesus-era Home Found in Nazareth -- Discovery News (21 December 2009)
  
  
• The Gnosis Archive -- Gnostic Society
  

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• Historic Bible pages put online [at <www.codexsinaiticus.org>] -- BBC News (6 July 2009)

  • Cf., Codex Sinaiticus manuscript
    
    
• History: Christmas Elements Have Pagan Roots -- Discovery News (21 December 2009)
  
  
• History: Christmas Evolves With Time -- Discovery News (21 December 2009)
  
  
• A History of the Crusades -- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
  
  
• Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates -- "Challenging Misconceptions, Illuminating Diversity," University of Wisconsin-Madison's National Resource Centers and Wisconsin Public Radio's Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
  
  
• Internet Mission Photography Archive -- University of Southern California
  
  
• The Internet Sacred Text Archive -- JB Hare
  
  
• Investigating Atheism -- University of Cambridge
  
  
• Islamic Calendar 2008 - 2015 -- Holidays on the Web
  
  
• Islamic Calligraphy -- Asia Society
  
  
• Islamic Heritage Project -- Open Collections Program, Harvard University Library
  
  
• Isaac Mayer Wise Digital Archive -- The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
  
  
• Jordan Cave May Be Oldest Church -- BBC News (6/10/08)
  • "Oldest Church" Discovery "Ridiculous" Critics Say --National Geographic News (6/13/08)
    
    
• Journal of Religion and Popular Culture -- University of Saskatchewan
  
  
• Knocking [Jehova's Wittnesses] --Independent Lens, PBS
  
  
• The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life -- Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
  
  
• The "Mahdiyya" Qur'an -- University of Leeds
  
  
• Martin Marty Center -- University of Chicago
  
  
• The Minassian Collection: Persian, Mughal, and Indian Miniature Paintings -- Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University
  
  
• Monastic Matrix [research on "participation of Christian women in the religion and society of medieval Europe."] -- University of Southern California's Digital Archives
  
  
• The Mormons -- Frontline, PBS
  
  
• Most Ancient Hebrew Biblical Inscription Deciphered, Scholar Says -- ScienceDaily (08 January 2010)
  
  
• Museum of Biblical Art
  
  
• New Dating Technique Could Establish Age of the Turin Shroud -- Telegraph (24 March 2010)
  
  
• Noah's Ark Found in Turkey? -- National Geographic News (28 April 2010)
  
  
• Pain or Prayer: Anthropologist Studies Religions -- ABC News (27 December 2009)
  
  
• Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
  
  
• Pitts Theology Library: Digital Image Archive -- Emory University
  
  
• Pluralism Project -- Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University
  
  
• Predisposition for Religion Can Spread Quickly -- Live Science (11 January 2011)
  
  
• The Question of God -- PBS
  

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• Relic Reveals Noah's Ark Was Circular -- Guardian (01 January 2010)
  
  
• Religion & Ethics [Macromedia Flash Reader, RealOnePlayer] -- BBC
  
  
• Religion & Ethics Newsweekly-- PBS
  
  
• Religion and Health: Is There a Link? -- ABC News (29 September 2010)
  
  
• ReligionLink -- Diane Connolly
  
  
• Religion, Magic and Sorcery -- Social Science Information Gateway, University of Bristol
  
  
• Religion Newswriters Association (RNA)
  
  
• Religious Affiliations: On the Outs? -- Discovery (28 March 2011)
  
  
• Religious Beliefs Are the Basis of the Origins of Palaeolithic Art -- EurekAlert (26 March 2010)
  
  
• Religious Experience Linked to Brain’s Social Regions -- Wired (02 October 2009)
  
  
• religious syncretism
  
  
• Remains of St John the Baptist 'found' -- BBC News (03 August 2010)
  
  
• American Experience: Sister Aimee -- PBS
  
  
• Sacred -- British Library
  
  
• Saint Anselm Journal -- Saint Anselm College
  
  
• Shroud of Turin Not Jesus', Tomb Discovery Suggests -- National Geographic News (17 December 2009)
  
  
• Speaking of Faith -- American Public Media
  
  
• The Spirit of Islam: Experiencing Islam Through Calligraphy
  
  
• Stonehenge Solstice Celebration Draws Neo-Pagans -- Discovery News (21 Junel 2010)
  
  
• This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys -- PBS
  
  
• Thoughts of Religion Prompt Acts of Punishment -- New Scientist (24 November 2010)
  
  
• Vatican: Islam Surpasses Roman Catholicism as World's Largest Religion -- FOXnews.com (30 March 2008)
  
  
• Voodoo and West Africa's Spiritual Life -- NPR
  
  
• World Conference of Religions for Peace
  
  
• Sacred Sites
  • Sacred Destinations -- Holly Hayes
  • Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Traditions of the World -- Martin Gray
    
    
• Top 100 Stories of 2009 #99: Science Finds God (In the Brain, at Least) -- Allison Bond, Discover (January-February special issue, published online December 16, 2009)
  
  
• Unshrouding the Science of the Shroud -- BBC News (12 April 2010)
  
  
• Were We Born to Believe? -- Telegraph (08 April 2010)

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