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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Seeking Spiritual America, part 2
Late last month, Richard Prince's retrospective “Spiritual America” opened at the Guggenheim in New York City. I wondered earlier why so few critics addressed the religious aspects at the center of Prince's work: the commodification of desire, the sanctification of … Continue reading
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Just TV?
Despite claims that television is merely a 'mindless entertainment' advertisers spend millions of dollars for a few precious moments onscreen. Is it 'just TV' or is it something more? What kind of difference can a TV program make? Can a … Continue reading
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Seeking Spiritual America
Late last month, Richard Prince's retrospective “Spiritual America” opened at the Guggenheim in New York City. The glittering array of sculpture, painting and photography, chronicling three decades of work, catches the shiny surfaces of America at its most banal: Playboy … Continue reading
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Religion, Identity & Global Governance Conference 2007
Distinguished professor Jack Miles will open the Religion, Identity & Global Governance Conference 2007 with a keynote address entitled “The Re-Negotiation of National Identity.” Over 25 scholars from 18 universities across the United States and Canada come together to … Continue reading
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What Do You Believe: The religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers
In this award-winning documentary featured on PBS, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Pagan, Native American, and Jewish Teens share their most personal struggles and beliefs about faith, morality, suffering and death, prayer, the purpose of life and the divine. Without a hint … Continue reading
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Brain Drain
Who knew that fundamentalists were wired differently? That's the argument made by Kenneth M. Heilman, a professor of neurology at the University of Florida, and Russell S. Donda, in the current issue of Tikkun. Heilman and Donda argue that the … Continue reading
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Sharing Jerusalem: Impossible Dream or Essential Goal for Mideast and World Peace?
Ronald J. Young, Primary Consultant to the National Interreligious Committee for Peace will speak at 4:00 pm in ACB Room 238, West Tower (825 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles). Refreshments will be served. In 1987, Mr. Young founded the U.S. Interreligous … Continue reading
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Science and Religion, cont.
Intrigued by the Templeton ad in the New York Times “Week in Review,” I decided to investigate which, whether and when news publications write intelligently, interestingly and insightfully about religion and science. It's a few days old, but the best … Continue reading
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Does the News, oops the Universe, Have a Purpose?
Usually a newspaper is just a newspaper. But other times, it points to something beyond its ephemeral self. Sunday's New York Times “Week in Review” is a case in point, encapsulating the problem of and solution to two of journalism's … Continue reading
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The Power of Love
Timesonline has a absorbing interview with a Buddhist monk recently escaped from Myanmar. Speaking through a translator, Vida (who did not want to give his first name) explained how this summer's hikes in fuel costs took him from the monastic … Continue reading
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