MUSIC and SPIRITUALITY: Faith-based Resources

• Music and Spirituality Part 2: The Soulful Odyssey of Yusuf Islam

• Music and spirituality to rock Purana Quila - The Hindu

• The Spirituality of Music   John Bird
• The Spiritual Significance of Music   Justin St. Vincent
• The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music   Victor L. Wooten
• Healing Power of Ocean Waves & Tibetan Singing Bowls   Music for Deep Meditation
• Healing Mantras: Using Sound Affirmations for Personal Power, Creativity, and Healing   Thomas Ashley-Farrand
• The Magic of Hebrew Chant: Healing the Spirit, Transforming the Mind, Deepening Love (For People of All Faiths, All Backgrounds)   Rabbi Shefa Gold
• Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music   Jonathan L. Friedmann
• music and spirituality - Interfaith forums 
• Keep The Faith - Your Spiritual Journey Through Music David R. Sams & Renee Kenneth Sams
• MUSIC AND SOUND IN THE HEALING ARTS   John Beaulieu
• Bhajan Parampara - A tribute By Anup Jalota To His Father & Guru Purushottam Das Jalota (Indian Devotional / Prayer / Religious Music / Chants)   Purushottam Das Jalota
• A. Hughman: “My Spirituality As An Atheist” | Diary of a Walking Butterfly
• Spiritual Journeys: How Faith Has Influenced Twelve Music Icons 
• Luther's Theology of Music: Spiritual Beauty and Pleasure (Theologische Bibliotek Topelmann) Miikka E. Anttila
• Mantras for Abundance   Shri Anandi Ma
• Sacred Journey CD - Native American Flute Melodies for a Spiritual Experience
• Radical Healing: Integrating the World's Great Therapeutic Traditions to Create a New Transformative Medicine   Rudolph Ballentine
• The Genesis Meditations: A Shared Practice of Peace for Christians, Jews, and Muslims   Neil Douglas-Klotz
• Rumi: Hidden Music   Maryam Mafi
• The Unstruck Drum: Mystical Poetry of Kabir in a New Setting by Jabez L. Van Cleef (Voices of World Religions)   Jabez L. Van Cleef
• MUSIC AND SOUND IN THE HEALING ARTS   John Beaulieu
• Heart and Sound: Discover Your Soul Voice   Carole Lynne
• The Yoga of Sound: Tapping the Hidden Power of Music and Chant   Russill Paul
• Tibetan Sacred Temple Music   Eight Lamas From Drepung
• A Bard's Book of Pagan Songs: Stories and Music from the Celtic World - CD included   Hugin the Bard
• Water Crystal Healing: Music and Images to Restore Your Well-Being   Masaru Emoto
• Music Medicine: The Science and Spirit of Healing Yourself with Sound   Christine Stevens MSW MT-BC
• Native American Flute - Cherry - Spiritual Healing - Professional Model - Deep Key Low D spirit flutes
• Chants of Illumination: Sanskrit Mantras to the Light   Imre Vallyon
• One Song: A New Illuminated Rumi   Michael Green
• The Spirit of Sounds: The Unique Art of Ostad Elahi (1895-1974)   Jean During
• The Mysticism of Sound and Music (Shambhala Dragon Editions)   Hazrat Inayat Khan
• The Healing Power of Sound: Recovery from Life-Threatening Illness Using Sound, Voice, and Music   Mitchell L. Gaynor
• Sacred Hindu Chants (Devotional / Prayer / Spiritual / Religion)   Sanjeev Abhyankar
• Azaan – A Sublime Musical Experience  Islamic Voice

Reading now: Prayer Is Good Medicine

Prayer Is Good Medicine: How to Reap the Healing Benefits of Prayer by Larry Dossey

Overview
'With the elegance of simplicity and the precision of science, Dossey shows us how we can create a lasting partnership between faith and medicine.' DEEPACK CHOPRA, M.D.

Publisher description:
Counter Physician Larry Dossey – one of today's foremost authority and most highly sought-after speaker on the relationship between prayer and healing – offers practical methods and illuminating explorations of the what, where, how, and why of the power of prayer to affect our health. Putting aside confounding scientific jargon. Dossey employs his trademark style of informed and warmly anecdotal writing to examine people's hopes and expectations of prayer, as well as their anxieties and misconceptions. For readers who want to understand the spiritual dimension of health and healing. Dossey has created an invaluable and inspiring resource.

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
Since Larry Dossey wrote his first book, Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine, he has toured the world meeting with audiences as diverse as Pentagon employees, church groups, and the British parliament. ... Prayer Is Good Medicine divides these discussions into four neatly contained sections. As prayer moves into the center stage of Western medicine Prayer Is Good Medicine acts as a modern-day prayer book as well as an ethical touchstone for healers and seekers.
From Publishers Weekly
Unlike medical practitioners in the East, many physicians in the West argue that the healing power of science is far superior to, and often incompatible with, the healing power of prayer. Yet, physician Dossey, attentive to the ways in which spiritual health affects bodily health, demonstrated in his Healing Words that the capacity of prayer to heal, combined with the capacity of science to heal, is far greater than the healing power of medicine alone. ...

CONTENTS:
PART ONE: THE EVIDENCE
Testing Prayer Is an Act of Worship
Experiments in Prayer Can Help Heal the Religion/Science Split
The Impact of Prayer Experiments on Religious Beliefs
The Scientific Understanding of Prayer Is Limited
Prayer Is Not Just a Placebo
Prayer Is Not Required to Go Anywhere

PART TWO: THE CONTROVERSY
Evaluating the Criticism That "Prayer Kills"
Celebrating the Diversity of Prayer
Praying for Others Without Their Consent
Using Public Funds for Prayer Research
Medical Malpractice and the Failure to Use Prayer

PART THREE: WHAT IS PRAYER?
The Universe Is Prayer
Prayer Is an Attitude of the Heart
Prayer Is What It Needs to Be
A Prayer for Prayer
Distinguishing Between Religion and Prayer
The Body Does Not Distinguish Between Prayer and Meditation
Ordinary Magic

PART FOUR: HOW TO PRAY
Credentials Don't Matter in Prayer
Children Are Prayer
Four-Legged Forms of Prayer
A Doctor Tests Prayer
Overcoming Ambivalence and Confusion About Prayer
Who Can Benefit from Prayer?
When We Need to Pray, We Will
There Is No Best Way to Pray
More Prayer Is Not Always Better
Choosing to Pray Privately or Publicly Depends on Our Temperament
You Can Pray in Your Dreams
Glimpsing the Infinite
Forgiving Ourselves for Getting Sick
Praying "Thy Will Be Done"
Praying for Corn in Iowa
The Answer Isn't Always Yes
Be Careful What You Ask For
Beware of Negative Prayer
Prayer Helps Us Be Warriors, Not Worriers

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Sacred Spaces: Readings

Cyber Worship Revisited - Need to sort out your sins? There's an app for that

Herald Tribune, Thu 10 Feb 2011

Can your iPad or iPhone bring you closer to God? A new application for the devices aims to help Roman Catholics who haven't been to the confessional booth in a while keep track of their sins, one Commandment at a time. The $1.99 "Confession: A Roman Catholic App" can't grant forgiveness -- you still need to receive the sacrament from a real, live priest like always. The app's designers and some believers see it as a way to spur Catholics back into the habit of repenting. "There's a reason we designed it for these mobile devices: We want you to go to confession," said Patrick Leinen, one of the developers and a co-founder of the company Little... continue reading: Herald Tribune,

More Online Confessions, Resources here:

Here is a sample from inside the Book: Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives--full of resources that will facilitate building bridges in a Multifaith society. Table of Contents / Reviews

Chapter 2. 'Cyber Worship as-is On the Web'

Resource of the Week is: Museums of World Religions (see description, reviews, etc., page 70). Order with Publisher:

My book Talk

My related posts:

Special Issue from Religious Studies Review on Religion & Internet

Cybersins and Digital Good Deeds

Christian Librarianship

Web Vastu or A Spiritual Worldview for Marketing Website

Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives

Understanding Islam: The First Ten Steps - Reading now

About the book:
"The faith of a billion Muslims today, developed over fourteen centuries, is sympathetically and skillfully presented in this marvelous introduction. Hewer's extensive knowledge and contextually sensitive presentation yield an exceptionally rich and faithful account, presupposing no prior knowledge of the traditions, without orientalist, Western, or Christian biases. Includes diagrams, glossary, and easy to follow references to the Qur'an."

What others say about this book:

"Understanding Islam is a model in the genre. --Yahya Michot, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford University

"This is a clearly written and well-organized book that is a fine introduction to Islam. The author ably shows how the rich heritage of Islam is celebrated and expressed in the faith lives of Muslims." --John Kaltner, Rhodes College, author of Islam: What Non-Muslims Should Know.

Written by a Fellow in Christian-Muslim Relations (St. Ethelburga's Centre, London) with twenty years' experience, Understanding Islam is an introduction to Islamic theology, customs, philosophy, worldview, culture, scholarship, and history, accessible to lay readers of all backgrounds and featuring a fair amount of black-and-white photographs. ... Understanding Islam is as unbiased as humanly possible in its straightforward presentation. Enthusiastically recommended particularly for public libraries, and also as a detailed primer for anyone from lay people to scholars seeking to educate themselves about Islam and the people who practice it. - By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)[source: Amazon.com]
Related links:

C. T. R. Hewer, Understanding Islam: An Introduction

Presence & Engagement Network: Understanding Islam Course: A ten-week course offered free throughout Greater London

Review by Burkhard Weitz, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Wntr, 2008

More reviews, here

Understanding Islam by Dr. Chris Hewer, Fortress Press (2006, fourth impression: 2010), 244 pages.

Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: The wider picture: creation from a Muslim perspective
Chapter Two: Muhammad, the last in the chain of Prophets
Chapter Three: The Qur’an, the Revealed Word of God
Chapter Four: An overview of Islamic history
Chapter Five: The central beliefs of Islam
Chapter Six: The principal practices of Islam
Chapter Seven: A Muslim life
Chapter Eight: Living constantly remembering God
Chapter Nine: Islam and other faiths
Chapter Ten: Muslims in Britain and Western Europe
Glossary
Further reading
Extract:
Each salat (the five times each day ritual prayer) is made up of number of cycles of prayer, called rak'at.
... Each rak'a comprises recitation of the Qur'an, bodily postures and prayers, said aloud or silently (p. 102).
Previous posts on the same shelf:

Reading now: Do I Kneel or Do I Bow?

Did the Jews pray as Muslims do ?!

Five myths about mosques in America

By Edward E. Curtis IV
Sunday, August 29, 2010
washingtonpost.com

1. Mosques are new to this country.
2. Mosques try to spread sharia law in the United States.
3. Most people attending U.S. mosques are of Middle Eastern descent.
4. Mosques are funded by groups and governments unfriendly to the United States.
5. Mosques lead to homegrown terrorism. Continue reading

On the same shelf:

No grounds for ‘mosque’ hysteria, Faisal Kutty.com

The not so great Islamist menace
By Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen, January 5, 2011
Extract:

As for who's responsible, forget Islamists. The overwhelming majority of the attacks-- 237 of 294 -- were carried out by separatist groups, such as the Basque ETA. A further 40 terrorist schemes were pinned on leftist and/ or anarchist terrorists. Rightists were responsible for four attacks. Single-issue groups were behind two attacks, while responsibility for a further 10 was not clear.
Islamists? They were behind a grand total of one attack. Yes, one. Out of 294 attacks. In a population of half a billion people. To put that in perspective, the same number of attacks was committed by the Comite d'Action Viticole, a French group that wants to stop the importation of foreign wine.

93 pc of Britons to skip the church on Christmas, says Opinion Matters

London, Dec 25 : A new survey has revealed that almost 93 per cent of Britons would be skipping the church on Christmas Day.

They would either be spending Christmas eating turkey, drinking champagne or opening presents - but will not attend the church.

The study by Opinion Matters only 11 per cent had the intention of attending Midnight Mass last night on Christmas Eve, while 86 per cent said they sent Christmas cards.

Daily Express columnist Ann Widdecombe told Express.co.uk: "If you''re not going to church on either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day then why are you celebrating Christmas?" continue reading

Quality of Life -- Spiritual Thoughts Re-Visited

"Spiritual well-being is considered by some to be the most significant dimension of quality of life, and may also be the least well understood. Until recently, the concept of spirituality was considered to be faith-based or religious in nature. Although religion may well be a part of the spiritual dimension of quality of life, there are many other aspects of this dimension to be considered. Spiritual well-being encompasses uncertainty, religiosity, the meaning of illness and suffering, the purpose of life, transcendence (lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience) and hopefulness. It is not difficult to see how a diagnosis of cancer can lead to self-doubt and conflict with one's beliefs. In contrast, some will find meaning and solace through reliance on their strong spiritual foundation." continue reading: From the desk of the Laura Hilderley, R.N., M.S., Member, Rhode Island Cancer Council, Inc. December 2001 Quality of Life

This tiny little prayer ... Sent up to GOD.com

Cyber worship (using cyber space for worship), continues to appear in different sites and appeal everyone. We have in the past included Rabbi offers prayer for Web porn surfers / God.com: Web Analytics Series no.2 / The Christian Prayer While Logging Onto the Internet. And, much more in my book: Cyber Worship.

Following is an interesting post by Bingkee:

"TO WWW.GOD.COM
An online buddy, John, at Multiply shared this little prayer with me. I intend to express this prayer by posting it here. Although the prayer is referring to online friends through email, I dedicate this prayer to all my friends, buddies, fellow bloggers and loyal readers I met here online through my blogsite and at Blog Catalog, MyBlogLog, Pijoo and Spicypage. Also my friends and readers from Friendster, Facebook, Multiply, Netlog, Moli, and Gather."

EXTRACT: And God, there is one more thing I wish that you could do. Hope you don't mind me asking, Bless my computer too.... When you update your heavenly list On your own CD-RomR emember each who've said this prayer. Sent up to God.com. Amen. continue reading

A note about This Tiny Little Prayer: Submitted By: Brenda S. (and I have no idea who that is...).

• See the true colors of this tiny little prayer with background music
  

Did the Jews pray as Muslims do ?!

"O you who believe! Bow down and prostrate yourselves and serve your Lord, and do good that you may prosper."-(HOLY QURAN 22:77).

"And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying," - Old Testament (Tanakh) (Genesis 17:3)
"And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped." - Old Testament (Tanakh Exodus 34:8 Mathew 26:39
"HE (Jesus) fell with his face to the ground and prayed"
"And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship..."-(JOSHUA 5:14)--obviously Jesus was not worshiping himself, he was worshiping God [source]

Quran conforms that salat was lost after some generations for the people of the book. Losing it involved changing it in every aspect. The salat as practiced today by most of the Jews and Christians is different than what was given to their prophets. Very few Jews and Christians have maintained the inherited Salat.

In his comment about these positions the author, To Pray As a Jew wrote : "In most contemporary congregations very few people keep to the tradition of falling prostrate. Sometimes it is only the Prayer leader and the rabbi who does so. In more traditional congregations, however, some worshipers, men and women, will join the Prayer Leader and rabbi in the act of prostrating themselves. In Israeli synagogues, the practice is more widespread than in synagogues elsewhere. Since this is a position that we are unaccustomed to, one who has never done this before might very well demur. But once accomplished, the experience provides such a spiritual uplift that one looks forward to repeating it. Those willing to try this ancient ritual form on the rare occasions that call for it might welcome the following diagrams of the correct procedure."

It is also interesting to learn from this book that the prayers of the Jews involve wash before the prayers, (like Wuduu or ablution for Muslims), and the call for Prayers (like the Azan for the Muslims).

See also: Hamerkaz >> Common Prayers and Blessings:
Berakhot: Blessings
A berakhah (blessing) is a special kind of prayer that is very common in Judaism. Berakhot are recited both as part of the they all start with the word barukh (blessed or praised).
The words barukh and berakhah are both derived from the Hebrew root Bet-Resh-Kaf, meaning "knee," and refer to the practice of showing respect by bending the knee and bowing. See animation at right. There are several places in Jewish liturgy where this gesture is performed, most of them at a time when a berakhah is being recited.

And Buddhists too:

Early Christians Prayer method

Jewish Prayer (early days)

CHRISTIANS AND JEWS ALSO PERFORM THE PRAYER (SALAT), SCIENCE-ISLAM

Do the Jews ever pray like the Muslims?

Muslims - more Christian than the Christians themselves?

Islamic Beliefs and Practices - Glimpses in the Bible

Prostration (...Major world religions employ prostration ... including: Baha'i Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam, Judaism, Jainism)

5 ways Yoga is a basic practice for Muslims

Wireless worship

Jesse Hirsh on spirituality and cellphones
Last Updated November 22, 2007, CBC News

Mobile technology is playing an increasingly important role in religious practice in a society in which almost everyone has a phone in their pocket, purse, or attached to their belt. (Sakchai Lalit /Associated Press)... continue reading : Txt msgs to G-d, Religious rejection.

see also: Not Necessarily News: Cool Mobile Apps : Me-too or My-tone?, OVERHEARD..., Wireless Worship ----- Mobile phone users everywhere can now keep the faith. Wireless and Web application provider Exclaim has launched MyFaith, a multimedia mobile phone application to offer spiritual well-being and enlightenment from six major religions and philosophies: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism.

Stressed Greeks turn to e-curses

IOL Technology 14 January, 2008
Greeks fed up with their pesky neighbours, old flames, the government, or society in general can find release in a new Internet site that posts e-curses for free.

"Have you been dumped, harassed or angered? Why not unload with a curse?", offers www.e-katares.com (e-curse.com), which currently has more than 150 entries.

Most postings on the site are from jilted lovers but there are also contributions aimed at Greek taxi drivers — a favourite target — banks, the public sector and even Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis.

"May his next pasta meal give him salmonella poisoning," one user rants against the premier, whose love of food is a popular barb among opposition media.

In Athens, locals usually relieve stress through a variety of offensive hand gestures, most frequently whilst caught in one of the capital’s trademark traffic jams.

"Studies by (EU statistics service) Eurostat show that Greeks have gone from being positive and relaxed to having the worst stress in Europe — over job uncertainty and the collapse of traditional social structures," sociology professor George Piperopoulos told the daily Ethnos.

NB. same news from other news sources:

• Stressed? Go for e-curse-It's a Mad, Mad World-World-The Times of India


• Greeks find e-curses to be relaxing - Deccan Chronicle / Asian Age

Getting Religious About Street Parking

NYC

By CLYDE HABERMAN
Published: November 9, 2007, New York Times

Today is Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, celebrating the triumph of good, represented by Lord Rama, over the forces of evil. It is a holiday that thrills some of my friends. Not that they are Hindus themselves.

The three-day Islamic feasts of Id al-Fitr and Id al-Adha thrill them, too. They aren’t Muslims, either.

They are, in the main, Christians and Jews. Most of them are not the sort to be found in church or synagogue every Sunday or Saturday morning. But they derive enormous satisfaction from holy days like the Feast of the Assumption or from a days-long Jewish festival like Passover.

continue reading

[info courtesy: Gail Zimmer]

See also:

Vatican greets Hindus on Diwali - Yahoo! India News

US House passes Diwali resolution

Even Athiests pray … figures don't lie!

CORRECTED: Even Atheists pray … figures don't lie!

November 4th, 2007 by Nancy Reyes
Surveys show that 52% of Americans pray every day, 57% of Catholics pray every day, 41% of those who aren’t sure of life after death pray every day, and 15% of people who aren’t sure there is a God pray every day.***

He said, with a grin, that people pray “to whom it may concern” or […] Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Nancy Reyes in All News, Society and Culture, US News, Religious News No Comments » 73 Views

See also on the same shelf:

The scandal of particular prayers, Posted by dpulliam

Comparing Muslim Beliefs and Practices

PEW Surveys

Catch Hell: Newsweek/Beliefnet poll results -- Beliefnet.com
A new poll points to growing importance of 'spirituality'; most believe people of other faiths can go to heaven

Finding Our Own Path, By Jerry Adler, Newsweek
Americans favor individual spirituality and personal empowerment--which has influenced even traditional, institutional religion. To read the entire article, click here. (C) 2005 Newsweek, Inc.

Spirituality in Action: The Road Ahead

If you don’t like the word God, substitute Nature, All Being, or Reality. If you don’t like the word “Word,” substitute something like “impulse.”

Google it

Spirituality: The Age of Aquarium:

Schools of Fish and Thought
The theists prayed and said “Amen,” while atheists said “Ahem . . .”
“There’s no such thing, you silly goofs; you haven’t any proof.”
Panentheists sought elbow room, they tried to wriggle in.
That en’s a tricky syllable; it splices God’s hair thin. continue reading @ Faithcommons

***Survey sources are listed below, courtesy Nancy Reyes:

The talk was given at a local university and reviewed in the local Catholic paper in western Massachusetts, where I am visiting my brother. They don't have a website, but the announcement is here.

But this NYTimes article refers to the same data:

This article on his website examines the belief in life after death and notes that not all atheists are "hard core" atheists. http://www.agreeley.com/articles/hardcore.html

The NORC website is here.

Presumably the research is published in journals...several of his surveys can be found at JSTOR, but since I don't have access, I can't read the hard sociological data.

'I Sold My Soul on eBay' - Faithwise Review of the Week

A self-described 'friendly atheist' auctioned himself off to a Christian minister, agreeing to visit dozens of churches and record his impressions. Here's what he found. Read the Interview

Life After 'Eat, Pray, Love' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the best-selling spiritual memoir, on keeping the inner flame lit, Hollywood a-calling, and what happened with her sublime Brazilian lover. Watch the Video

Muslims seek French advice for fasting without feasting
But clerics and medics say the iftar meal to break the fast after sunset has become ever more lavish in recent times, encouraged by the Arab cultural emphasis on big family meals.

Alain Delabos, a doctor who has written several books on dieting, said some Muslims turned the iftar meal into "a nocturnal orgy of sugary food from sunset to sunrise".

"That leads some to end Ramadan with more weight than they had before and others... to see signs of diabetes or an excess in cholesterol emerge," Delabos writes in his book "Chrono-nutrition - Ramadan special" which came out last month.

Providing recipes ranging from roasted figs to red mullet with fennel or lentil soup, Delabos advises Muslims to eat one sugary dish at the end of the day's fast, another light, savoury dish before going to bed and a savoury meal before sunrise. continue reading Zee News

Romance on Iranian TV Crosses Cultures
All Things Considered, September 20, 2007 · Iran state-controlled TV is featuring a mini-series about a love story between an Iranian Muslim man and a French Jewish woman during World War II: Zero Degree Turn. Farnaz Fassihi of The Wall Street Journal has written about the show and discusses it with Robert Siegel.

EEOC: Discrimination against Sikhs in the Workplace Continues Unabated Since 9/11

Why is he in exile? by Ram Rahman
It’s not his art. It’s that M.F Husain has become a pawn for mobilising communal political forces. And so, one of India’s greatest artists will spend his 92nd birthday, on September 17,away from his country

SIX RIGHTS THAT EVERY HUMAN BEING DESERVES AND SHOULD FIGHT FOR
written by Sabina England
1) EQUALITY, DIGNITY AND FAIR TREATMENT FOR ALL
2) OPEN ACCESS TO WATER FOR ALL.
3) FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL.
4) FREE MEDICAL ACCESS FOR ALL.
5) FREEDOM OF SPEECH, RELIGION, AND EXPRESSION FOR ALL.
6) INFORMATION SHARED FREELY FOR ALL

Religion is pluralistic, so let's make sure it stays that way Daily Star Lebanon
By Ali Noer Zaman Commentary by Tuesday, September 04, 2007 One of the much-debated religious issues in Indonesia today is that of pluralism. Its opponents, such as the Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI), believe that pluralist theology is harmful for Islamic theological foundations, as it would undermine the idea that a particular religion is supreme and that other religious beliefs are apocryphal. A MUI fatwa of 2005, which called for the abolishment of pluralistic theology, alarmed the Muslim community of the danger of pluralist theology. continue reading

‘No freedom of religion for Muslims in Goa’ * Gomantak Times says Hindus and Christians, not Muslims, enjoy religious freedom, Daily Times Monitor

Let Her Be Covered Part One
That was her question. In response, my companion assured her that the wearing of the headcovering is a Biblical teaching recorded in 1 Corinthians 11....

Let Her Be Covered Part Two

Knowing Hinduism or Hindu Religion, by Ravikumar Uppaluri

Minorities Under Attack: Sangh Prepares for the Coming Elections

BJP distances itself from ‘fatwa’ controversy The Hindu,
Bhopal: In an apparent damage control excerise, the BJP on Saturday sought to distance itself from the “Vedanti fatwa” controversy and backed the claim of the VHP leader that he was misquoted.

Ram Vilas Vedanti, a senior VHP leader and former BJP MP, said in Ayodhya that whosoever chopped the head and tongue of DMK chief M. Karunanidhi, for saying Lord Ram did not exist, would be rewarded with gold.