Monthly Archives: December 1998
COMMENTARY: `The Siege’ reveals a fault line in American popular culture
By James Rudin — December 16, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the National Interreligious Affairs Director of the American Jewish Committee.) UNDATED _ The film,”The Siege,”has been sharply criticized by some Islamic organizations who complained that the movie presents a distorted and unfair picture of Islam and Muslims. But the controversy actually reveals more about American popular culture […]
Eds: Check RNS Stock for a photo to accompany this story
By David Briggs — December 11, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Exit the drunken sailor and lovesick adolescent. There is a new gang of marked men and women in tattoo parlor lore: evangelical Christians. More than a millennium after church authorities condemned tattooing as”a form of deviltry”that disfigured the body, a new generation of evangelical youth are permanently altering […]
HOLIDAY FEATURE: White American converts to Islam a growing minority
By Ira Rifkin — December 9, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Ismail Royer remembers the sunny fall afternoon seven years ago when a songbird heard in a suburban St. Louis park transformed him from a lapsed Catholic into a believing Muslim. Royer heard the sound that changed his life as he and a Muslim friend sat in Manchester Park […]
White American converts to Islam a growing minority
By Ira Rifkin — December 9, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Ismail Royer remembers the sunny fall afternoon seven years ago when a songbird heard in a suburban St. Louis park transformed him from a lapsed Catholic into a believing Muslim. Royer heard the sound that changed his life as he and a Muslim friend sat in Manchester Park […]
NEWS FEATURE: Holiday book guide on religion and spirituality
By RNS Blog Editor — December 8, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Every year, American publishers release around 50,000 titles to an often dazed book-buying public. With the arrival of the colder months, many bibliophiles snap up larger than usual numbers of volumes _ some intended for personal pleasure on windy, wintry evenings, and others bought as gifts. Here, for […]
Page 1 of 1
