Give Me That Small Screen Religion
For viewers whose search for meaning is not confined to institutional religion, the television landscape abounds with religious and moral themes. And whether it’s euthanasia, polygamy, angels, demons, or clerics doing cameos, treatment of religion on the small screen is often surprisingly sophisticated.
Oprah Talks Down to Fundamentalist Mormon Girls
Oprah's skepticism toward FLDS girls about their devotion to unusual beliefs reminds one writer of the questions asked of Muslim women.
Fundamentalist Mormons are in the news again, in Canada, where two men are being tried for polygamy. But what if it were legal? Women might benefit.
The court found little hard evidence that minors were in physical danger or were victims of abuse. Critical media compare raid to Guantanamo Bay...
Pew studies the importance of religion in China, Methodists and Lutherans swing both ways, and what media coverage of the fundamentalist Mormons has omitted...
RDBook: 10 Questions on Sexual Ethics and Islam
Asked about other titles she’d considered, Ali replied, “I would have accepted any title that didn’t have ‘veil’ in it.”
Will accommodation of Muslim family law unleash “brutal violence” and “polygamy” in England, as critics suggest?