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- Acquitted of blasphemy and living in fear in Pakistan
Secunder Kermani, BBC News, Islamabad, December 9, 2018 Saima - not her real name- still hasn't recovered from her four years in solitary confinement in a small Pakistani prison cell. "Even now I feel like I am in jail. You can see the scars on my legs from when I was chained." Saima was sentenced to life imprisonment for having committed blasphemy, before her conviction was eventually overturned. She says her jailers at times wouldn't give her food because she was Christian. "They would say, 'You disgraced our religion,'" she told the BBC. She was accused of defiling the Koran and using it to perform exorcisms. But Saima says her Muslim neighbours launched the case against her, following a petty fight between their children.
- Amy Louise Wood - Lynching and Spectacle Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
UNC Press, copyright 2009. 2010 Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council; finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History.
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-7197-3, February 2011; eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-7811-8, February 2011
In Lynching and Spectacle, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing and affirming white supremacy. Lynching, Wood argues, overlapped with a variety of cultural practices and performances, both traditional and modern, including public executions, religious rituals, photography, and cinema, all which encouraged the horrific violence and gave it social acceptability. However, she also shows how the national dissemination of lynching images ultimately fueled the momentum of the antilynching movement and the decline of the practice.
- Craig Pearson - The Supreme Enlightenment
The Supreme Awakening brings together a remarkable collection of transcendent experiences reported by people through the ages and shows that they are experiences of advanced stages of human development, higher states of consciousness — experiences of enlightenment.
- Creating God
Hidden Brain, July 16, 2018. Hosted by Shankar Vedantam.
- Doug Oman
Doug Oman, PhD, is a scientist and scholar with a special interest in the topics of spirituality and health. Since 2001, he has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the School of Public Health. In addition to his many publications (listed on the website) he teaches Public Health and Spirituality (PH281), which presents a brief introduction to the emerging field of spirituality and health. We examine scholarly and scientific views of links between spirituality, religion, and health. Topics include highlights and overviews of the rapidly emerging scientific evidence base, public health relevance, collaborations with faith-based organizations, and other practical applications.
- FaithHealthNC
FaithHealth is dynamic partnerships between faith communities, health systems and other providers focused on improving health. The partnerships combine the caring strengths of congregations, the clinical expertise of health providers and a network of community resources.
- In ''Broken Faith'' Reporters Uncover Decades Of Abuse At Spindale Church
Katy Barron and Anita Rao, WUNC The State of Things, April 1, 2020
When former schoolteacher Jane Whaley and her husband, Sam, founded Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, NC in 1979, no one could have imagined all that the institution would become: a religious movement with global impact; a community that provides housing and job opportunities to its congregation; and a cult dogged with allegations of physical, psychological and spiritual abuse.
- Meet the Friendly Neighbor Epidemiologist encouraging her fellow Christians to get vaccinated
Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service, May 19, 2021
Written in epidemiologist Emily Smith’s friendly, informational voice, the Facebook page has grown to more than 96,000 followers.
- Memoirist: Evangelical Purity Movement Sees Women's Bodies As A 'Threat' (43 min)
September 18, 2018. Heard on Fresh Air. Terry Gross interviews Linda Kay Klein, who is the founder of Break Free Together, an organization that tries to help people escape the sexual shame from their upbringing. Her new memoir is Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free. Includes transcript.
- Religious organizations
- The New Chief Chaplain at Harvard? An Atheist
Emma Goldberg, NY Times, Aug. 26, 2021
The elevation of Greg Epstein, author of “Good Without God,” reflects a broader trend of young people who increasingly identify as spiritual but religiously nonaffiliated.
- Why Pius IX Might Be The 'Most Important Pope' In Modern Church History (38 min)
Fresh Air, with Terry Gross, April 24, 2018. Transcript available. Pius IX became head of the Catholic church in 1846 and instituted the doctrine of Papal infallibility. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Kertzer says his exile led to the emergence of modern Italy. David Kertzer is the author of the new book "The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile Of Pius IX And The Emergence Of Modern Europe."
- ‘Someone’s Gotta Tell the Freakin’ Truth’: Jerry Falwell’s Aides Break Their Silence
Brandon Ambrosino, Politico, Sept. 9, 2019
More than two dozen current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian college in the world.