Western Muslims permlink
I have a new sublog over at Talk Islam. My first post, A wrong track for Western Islam?:...Posted on May 11, 2008 3:45 PM •
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Western Muslims permlink
I have a new sublog over at Talk Islam. My first post, A wrong track for Western Islam?:...Posted on May 11, 2008 3:45 PM •
Talk Islam permlink
Just a heads up, I've been posting now and then to the quasi-Twitteresque site Talk Islam run by my friend Aziz Poonawalla. I also have a sub-weblog where I'll be posting some of my longer form ruminations...but it might be...Posted on April 26, 2008 3:56 AM • 0 Comments
Supernatural sex differences permlink
The post below where I observed that in the United States men are over-represented among the Religious Right as opposed to the general population elicited a lot of response. I took some of the data from American Piety in the...Posted on April 17, 2008 10:04 PM • 7 Comments
Men are religious fundamentalists permlink
The finding that men are more likely to be secular than women is a relatively robust result. You can note this in the Pew Religious Survey, to the point where 70% of self-identified atheists in the United States are male....Posted on April 16, 2008 3:22 PM • 22 Comments
World religions - numbers over time.... permlink
Well, it turns out that there isn't a handy-dandy reference for the numbers for various religions in the past. Mark Kirkorian over at The Corner linked to my earlier post where I expressed skepticism about the contention by the Vatican...Posted on March 31, 2008 3:33 PM • 5 Comments
The accommodation of religion permlink
The Islamic Republic of Harvard?: But the decision put Harvard in the awkward position of having to arbitrate what constitutes legitimate religious practice. Marine claims there was a "moral and ethical responsibility" for the administration to act on this request,...Posted on March 31, 2008 2:04 AM • 6 Comments
More Muslims than Catholics...again permlink
Update: Follow up post with some numbers and logic laid out. Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican: Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world's population and...Posted on March 30, 2008 3:22 PM • 17 Comments
Geert Wilders & defaming Islam permlink
Michael C. Moynihan has a article up at Reason, In Defense of Geert Wilders: In response to the controversy surrounding Fitna, Wilders' website was knocked offline by his American host, Network Solutions; he has been repeatedly denounced by the government...Posted on March 28, 2008 1:41 PM • 63 Comments
The Founding Fathers as non-"Christian" Christians permlink
Steve Waldman has been blogging some of the major arguments from his new book, Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America. He says: As for their religious beliefs, someone in the comment thread said I...Posted on March 13, 2008 10:00 AM • 6 Comments
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, religion and reflection permlink
Chris at Mixing Memory has a post up, Respecting the Religious (or the A-Religious), pointing to a Simon Blackburn working paper, Respect and Religion. I enjoyed Blackburn's Think, but the chapter on God left me a bit cold. Blackburn is...Posted on March 12, 2008 4:25 AM • 36 Comments
Rewriting Islam permlink
Lots of articles on the radical reinterpretation of the Hadith in Turkey. The Hadith serve as the basis for Islamic law, and orthopraxy more generally. I am on the record as saying that texts don't in the end determine anything,...Posted on February 29, 2008 5:05 AM • 3 Comments
Mitty Romney is hyper-typical for a Mormon permlink
The Audacious Epigone crunches the Pew Religion Survey and comes up with some more insights.......Posted on February 28, 2008 2:00 AM • 1 Comments
Christians in East Asia are smarter than non-Christians permlink
In my post below, Pentecostals are stupid? Unitarians are smart?, I derived some conclusions from data which suggests that different religious groups in the United States have different IQs and/or academic aptitudes. The data are not particularly surprising, as some...Posted on February 23, 2008 5:25 AM • 10 Comments
Pentecostals are stupid? Unitarians are smart? permlink
A few days ago I noted that smart people believe in evolution. And stupid people do not. Inductivist looked at the IQ scores in the GSS for whites and this is what he found for various religions: Mean IQ of...Posted on February 21, 2008 1:23 AM • 33 Comments
Pushing the Overton Window, inshallah permlink
'I don't hate Muslims. I hate Islam,' says Holland's rising political star: A TV addict with bleached hair who adores Maggie Thatcher and prefers kebabs to hamburgers, Geert Wilders has got nothing against Muslims. He just hates Islam. Or so...Posted on February 18, 2008 1:52 AM • 10 Comments
Atheists who believe in astrology permlink
The always interesting Inductivist has a post up where he cranks through the GSS to figure out how belief that astrology is somewhat or very scientific relates to belief in God. Below the fold I've taken his results and turned...Posted on January 23, 2008 12:19 AM • 15 Comments
