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August 23rd, 2010
10:34 AM ET
Muslim women who wear the hijab and niqab explain their choicePhotos by CNN's Angie Lovelace, text by Soraya Salam of CNN's In America unit: When you look at Aliya Naim or Nadia, they don’t want you to see objects of beauty, nor do they want you to see women constrained by societal standards. Instead, they say, they want to be judged by their intellect and personalities. They say it’s the reason they don’t show too much more. Both Muslim American women cover themselves from head to toe in adherence to their faith’s promotion of modesty and humility. Like most Muslim women who cover, they do so only in front of men who are not in their immediate family.
August 20th, 2010
03:55 PM ET
Ramadan road trip, day 3: View from the top Aman Ali, right, and Wayne Drash atop the Jacksonville minaret CNN's Wayne Drash filed this report: Shauib Karim calls me back into the office at the Islamic Center of Jacksonville, Florida. "You've got to see this." He boots up a computer and opens a file from May 10. On the screen, there's an image of a hunched-over, middle-aged guy carrying a 3-foot pipe bomb and a gas canister.
August 19th, 2010
03:48 PM ET
Ramadan road trip, day 2: 'Faith people have to stick together'CNN's Wayne Drash filed this report: The blue Chevy Cobalt pulled away from Atlanta, heading into toward the Muslim community of Jacksonville, Florida. Driver Aman Ali jams to "Eye of the Tiger," his thumbs beating to the rhythm and his voice belting out along with Survivor's lead singer. His friend, Bassam Tariq, studiously reads fan emails and scans the internet. "I just read a news piece that 1 in 5 Americans think Obama is a Muslim," Bassam says. "Isn't that crazy?"
August 19th, 2010
12:37 AM ET
Ramadan roadtrip begins: Day 1 Iman Mansoor Sabree introduces Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq to students at the Mohammed Schools in Atlanta. Ali and Tariq are are visiting 30 mosques in 30 days during Ramadan. CNN's Wayne Drash filed this report: Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq are two young Muslims taking a 10,000-mile roadtrip to 30 mosques in 30 states during the holy month of Ramadan. “It’s about humanizing Muslims and Islam,” Ali said. “A lot of people might know about Islam, but they might not know what our lives are really like.” My colleague, Robert Johnson, and I are joining them on their swing through the South. Along the way, we'll meet an African-American community of Muslims in Atlanta; a largely Pakistani-American community in Jacksonville, Florida; and a group of West African immigrants in Birmingham, Alabama.
August 11th, 2010
09:37 PM ET
August 2nd, 2010
02:08 PM ET
Katy Perry opens up on religious upbringingKaty Perry sang about kissing girls, and now she's talking tongues: In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Perry reveals that her Christian minister parents spoke in tongues when she was growing up. The California girl, who has "Jesus" tattooed on her left wrist, tells the magazine, "Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt..' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God." Perry, 25, adds that her dad usually speaks in tongues while her mom plays interpreter. "That's their gift," she explains.
August 2nd, 2010
02:01 PM ET
Peter Berger in Blogostan
By Stephen Prothero, Special to CNN Peter Berger is perhaps the most influential living scholar of religion, the author of such classics (and bestsellers) as The Sacred Canopy and The Social Construction of Reality. As of a few weeks ago, he is also a blogger, the man behind "Religion and Other Curiosities" at American Interest Online. I had the pleasure of getting to know Berger a bit after taking a job a decade or so ago at Boston University, where until his recent retirement (of sorts) he directed BU's Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs and held forth as a professor of religion, sociology and theology.
July 6th, 2010
06:06 PM ET
June 3rd, 2010
10:35 AM ET
One man's crusade to bring justiceEfraim Zuroff's great-uncle was kidnapped in Lithuania, in 1941, by a gang of Lithuanians "roaming the streets of [Vilnius] ... looking for Jews with beards to arrest." He was murdered soon after along with his wife and two sons, Zuroff said. Zuroff would go on to spend his life hunting Nazis. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, more names of alleged Holocaust criminals have turned up from Lithuania than from anywhere else in Eastern Europe, Zuroff said. But prosecuting them for war crimes has been a disappointment, he said, because Lithuania has failed to punish a single one of its own Holocaust war criminals since its independence in 1991. "Nowhere in the world," Zuroff said, "has a government gone to such lengths to obscure their role in the Holocaust."
June 3rd, 2010
10:26 AM ET
Is being 'spiritual but not religious' a copout?"I'm spiritual but not religious." It's a trendy phrase people often use to describe their belief that they don't need organized religion to live a life of faith. But what exactly does being "spiritual but not religious" mean, and could there be hidden dangers in living such a life? |
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Editor's Note: Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of "God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World," is a regular CNN Belief Blog contributor.
