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July 27th, 2010
01:19 PM ET
My Take: Tennessee, Islam, and Our Disposable Constitution
By Stephen Prothero, Special to CNN How’s this for a new argument against your local Islamic community center? According to Ron Ramsey, Tennessee’s Lieutenant Governor and a candidate for the Republican gubernatorial primary, Islam, the world’s second largest religion, may not be a religion after all.
July 27th, 2010
12:48 PM ET
Utah court overturns conviction of polygamist 'prophet'The Utah Supreme Court has reversed Warren Steed Jeffs' two convictions on charges of rape as an accomplice and ordered a new trial, saying instructions given to jurors were erroneous. Jeffs, the so-called "prophet" of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or FLDS, was sentenced to two consecutive terms of five years to life after he was convicted in September 2007.
July 27th, 2010
07:00 AM ET
My Take: Can yoga solve India’s caste problem?
By Ravi S. Kudesia , Special to CNN Just over a week ago, regular Belief Blog contributor and religion scholar Stephen Prothero posted on the ills of the Indian caste system. In it, he places the burden squarely on Hinduism’s shoulders. By doing so, he stepped into a centuries-old debate about the origins and future of the oppressive social institution. The responses were impassioned, but hardly innovative. Most detractors argued that today’s caste system has little actual basis in Hindu scripture. The hymn Prothero cited, the Purusha Sukta, comes from the Vedas–books so ancient that they're widely considered the oldest extant Indo-European texts. |
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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.
Editor's Note: Ravi S. Kudesia is founder of 