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[The Enterprise Blog] Are Economics and Environmentalism Secular Religions?: I can’t comment on the details of Nelson’s thesis until I read the whole book, but I think he’s on to something. I would put the point this way: The perennial problem for both economic and environmental arguments is that they’re often framed, officially, in scientific terms, but almost all of their interest is moral.

[Reading Device Reviews] On liberty | Reading Device Reviews: Perhaps the most famous aspect of Mill's extended argument about liberty is his discussion of the "tyranny of the majority." His argument grows from the long history of religious persecution suffered throughout Europe that led to book bans, bigotry, and even torture and burning at the stake for people who did not conform to the majority superstition, namely the dominant form of Christianity wherever one lived. Mill lived in a time when even the staid and relatively moderate views of the English Church forced people to conform their lives or face public humiliation and financial ruin, and sometimes lynching.

[Peace Research Update from One World, Many Peaces] Peace Research Update for the Week of Febrary 22, 2010 (Peace ...: The SOS was associated with authoritarianism (Studies 1-4) and dogmatism (Study 4), as well as measures of religious fundamentalism, immigration attitudes, universalism, and environmentalism (Study 2). In Study 3, the SDS mediated the relation between just peacemaking and measures of (a) voting intentions prior to the 2008 Presidential election, (b) militarism, and (c) resistance to moral disengagement from war.

[uuworld.org: latest stories] uuworld.org : the religious left: The rise of Black Power gave the African American community a new religious and political depth, but few white allies responded with sufficient creativity to maintain earlier practices of interracial cooperation. (Indeed, one of the few groups to maintain its interracial radicalism into the 1970s, People’s Temple of San Francisco, was itself victimized by the sociopathic personality of its leader, Jim Jones.) The rising queer, feminist, and environmentalist movements so rattled some antiwar stalwarts, like the Rev.

[NewsReal Blog] NewsReal Sunday: Secular Spirituality | NewsReal Blog: And make no mistake, that is Hudgins’s implicit demand aired in his condemnation of what is implied by him to be the horror of “religious” violence and the perennial fruit on which the secular feed to justify their secularism.

[RELIGION] RELIGION Blog | The Dallas Morning News: Similarly, the entire discussion in the weeks leading finally to the Senate vote in Massachusetts as well as in the days since the election of a Republican senator has involved fears about the loss of a filibuster proof majority, or fears about the alleged cost of the congressional bills that passed each house, or fears that some undocumented immigrant might be treated at public expense in an emergency room, or fears that somebody who enjoys a fully-funded "cadillac" health insurance program might have to pay a few hundred dollars in taxes for the privilege of retaining it.

[newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire] Is Cultural Nostalgia Utterly Charming? | newmatilda.com: The banning of the burqa is so often mistakenly seen as a gesture of intolerence, it is in fact a reaffirmation of France’s cultural attitude towards liberty and equaliy which strictly believes men and women are equal, should be treated as equal and should be seen as equal by the broader society. The essay above is a somewhat reductionist assessment of the way in which Australians interact with French culture.

[Essay Writing Blog] Sample Essay: scholarly paper with the topic of Buddhism and ...: Early Buddhism did not develop a system of philosophy.  However, the attitude of Buddhism towards the world was pluralistic and realistic, and it did insist that things as constantly changing.  This constancy of change has long been established and accepted by science.  Later, the thought that things are impermanent and changing developed into the Buddhism doctrine that things are momentary, and this led to atomic ideas of space and time.  This was accompanied by speculation about the nature of cause and effect, the nature of the inner process of perception-the whole problem as to how man obtain knowledge of things-and the way in which karma works.  How can things that are merely momentary be linked together by cause and effect? - a question that usually starts many scientific investigations.

[Center for Research and Inter-Religious Dialogue] the promise of dialogue « Center for Research and Inter-Religious ...: An “ashram” is a monastic community in the Hindu tradition that maintains a rigorous religious environment so that guests can come and stay and imbibe of the prayer life of the community for a retreat lasting anywhere from a day to year. The Dominican Ashram in Michigan is home to a basic community of about four Dominicans who maintain a rigorous schedule of daily common prayer, common meditation and silence, praying not only with Christian texts, but with the great texts of other religions as well.

[Seminary Co-op Bookstores, Inc.] Seminary Co-op Bookstores, Inc. » Blog Archive » Front Table ...: Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature

[Opinionator] For Democrats: Blood in the Water, or Just Fresh Blood ...: The point is that the debate over the number of retirements and over the Dem chances of holding the super-majority are two separate conversations. That said, when it comes to assessing just how bad the environment has become for Dems and whether Dems are “dropping like flies,” obviously the number of GOP retirements deserves to be part of the media discussion.

[christiannonduality.com Blog] christiannonduality.com Blog » Blog Archive » I've already got ...: A modernist fideism is a failed risk-elimination technique, attempting to immunize faith from critique by reducing it to mere expression. Only a constructive postmodern approach can successfully retrieve, revive and renew our sense of adventure, enchantment and risk-taking, inviting us anew to journey on a quest for a grail worthy of our ineradicable human aspirations for more, a LOT more!

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