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How Orthodox Jewish women are creating a parallel entertainment market
By Yonat Shimron — March 4, 2024
(RNS) — Jessica Roda's new book explores how women in Haredi communities are embracing and creating digital arts tailored to the gender-segregated world of women.
2023 Freedom of Thought Report; The Year in Religion News
By Ray Kirstein — December 16, 2023
Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush reviews the 2023 Freedom of Thought Report with Nicole Carr and Gary McLelland, and gets the top five religion news stories of 2023 from journalists Adelle Banks and Jack Jenkins
In secular Japan, what draws so many to temples and shrines? Stamp collecting and tradition
By Mari Yamaguchi — October 9, 2023
TOKYO (AP) — Japan has a long history of pragmatism about traditional religions, which often serve more as connections to family and community than as theological guides, as in the West.
Greek court: Orthodox students cannot be exempted from religion classes
By David I. Klein — September 26, 2023
ISTANBUL (RNS) — Even exemptions in which non-Orthodox Christian students state their beliefs, the Greek Council of State ruled, did not violate human rights or European Union privacy laws.
3 big numbers that tell the story of secularization in America
By Phil Zuckerman — March 8, 2023
(The Conversation) — Secularization has fascinated sociologists for 200 years – but that doesn’t mean they always agree on what it is, or how much it’s happening.
In ad blitz, watchdog group projects political heft of nonreligious Americans
By Alejandra Molina — September 16, 2022
(RNS) —The campaign includes billboards featuring portraits of residents of the swing states of Michigan, Louisiana, Missouri and others, and the legend 'I’m an atheist and I vote' along highways in their respective regions.
In LA, ‘Atheist Pirates’ remove religious signs from public streets and overpasses
By Alejandra Molina — March 3, 2022
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — ‘The only way we can have streets that are welcoming to all is if all religions can equally go through them and be on them without feeling like they are less than.’
1 in 5 Latino Americans have no religion, the Latinx Humanist Alliance says
By Alejandra Molina — April 1, 2021
(RNS) — In less than a decade, the number of nonreligious Latinos in the U.S. has increased 67%, doubling from about 4 million to more than 8 million, the Latinx Humanist Alliance found.
Americans see more jingle, less Jesus in Christmas celebrations
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 13, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The survey captures how 'too many people think Christmas is about a mall and not a manger,' said Ed Stetzer, executive director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College.
Northeast cities rate most secular
By Adelle M. Banks — July 13, 2017
(RNS) — Barna President David Kinnaman called the research a 'more holistic look at the level of secularization of a particular market or city.'
Knesset member challenges ultra-Orthodox influence in Israeli society
By guest — October 24, 2016
JERUSALEM (RNS) Rachel Azaria has been described as the only member of Israel’s 66-member coalition government willing to challenge the ultra-Orthodox monopoly on family rights and religion-and-state issues.
Liberal Bangladeshi blogger killed by machete-wielding attackers
By Reuters — April 7, 2016
DHAKA, Bangladesh -- The slaying of law student Nazimuddin Samad, 28, follows the killing last year of five secular writers and a publisher, including a Bangladeshi-American activist.
The US: One nation not quite under God
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — March 11, 2016
(RNS) Long viewed as the most religious developed nation, America is slipping toward secularism, like the rest of the West, a new study finds.
Israel fractures by faith on politics and society
By Lauren Markoe — March 8, 2016
(RNS) A new survey finds Israelis wrestling with the nation's identity. Most Jews there say it can be both Jewish and democratic. Most Israeli Muslims and Christians disagree.
3 Islamic militant suspects arrested in murders of secular bloggers in Bangladesh
By Reuters — August 19, 2015
Bangladesh's elite forces arrested three suspected Islamist militants for masterminding the killings of two secular bloggers in the Muslim-majority nation.
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