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I was intrigued to read the ideas of Marshall Breger,
professor of law at the Catholic University of America,
reprinted in Utne Reader from Moment, an independent magazine
of Jewish politics, culture, and religion, on statecraft,
diplomacy and religion magazines. That said, Professor
Breger's ideas about diplomacy and religion delighted
me. In the short form, U. S. diplomatic policy leaves
religion out of the picture. Professor Breger posits that
if the U. S. were to include religion religion magazines,
our diplomatic relations would have a far more vital effect
on relationships with nations that treat religion inclusively
along with their governance.
Why don't we include religion religion magazines as a
consideration in diplomacy?
The actual word religion religion magazines comes from
Latin roots which mean to re-link. Use religion for the
purposes of peace, Ambassadors and Ambassadresses, and
let peace link us all back together.
A sundance brother recently asked my views on the differences
between religion and spirituality for possible inclusion
in his doctoral thesis. An interesting question, I thought,
as the common assumption is that religion is spiritual,
that the two terms are interchangeable, even synonymous.
To question that is to ask if religion magazines religions
actually lack a true spiritual foundation. The Pews of
History are filled with heroic tales of religious wars,
religion-promulgated, influenced, or condoned imperialism
to the lesser sins of religious magazine schauvinism,
to innumerable ethical scandals.How many nations associate
themselves with a particular brand of religion, even today?
I think all religions in all times have been the bastardization
and corruption of spirituality. When spirituality becomes
corrupt, it becomes religion because religion as we have
experienced it throughout the course of history, and this
is true of Hinduism and Buddhism and all kinds of current
religions, have been bastardized into dogma, ideology,
and belief systems. And as long as the religion has a
belief system, and all religions religion magazines have
one, all without exception, then they hinder man's evolution.
So I think religion is toxic to society, all religions.
And that includes the Eastern religions. The Eastern religions,
before they became religions, they were spiritual devices
or you might say spiritual styles of living with an exact
science and methodology to find the truth about one's
own nature. We have this popular myth in society that
Hinduism is a nonviolent religion. To fully appreciate
his words, we need spend a little time on the term "spiritual."
"Soul & Spirit: I recognize we all have our own
ideas of what Soul and Spirit mean.
Soul is the "Being." Spirit is the "Actions
of the Being." We know the Soul by what the Spirit
does. Spirit is Soul in action, expressing in the physical
through us. Spirit is the relational link between Soul
and all others. Do not confuse "spirit" with
"religion." The Spirit is the actor that connects
everything to the Soul. Some of you may have heard me
say or read it on the website, that the Red Road is not
a religion, that in general, traditional Indigenous spiritual
practices are not a religion (ancient Aztecs, Mixtecs,
Inca, Toltecs, et al excluded). In religion, all power
is vested in the Church, Temple, or Synagogue etc., usually
what is termed religious (Church) Law, and carried out,
or franchised, through its various orders or sects, and
their clergy. Unlike most major world religions, there
is no Great Payoff that can only be received in the afterlife.
We've not even gotten into the geographic foundations
of religion or spirituality, of how language impacts whether
a culture develops religious magazines institutions or
remains centered in a living spirituality (the implication
here that religions are spiritually void is intentional),
nor have we discussed how exporting religions magazines
changes them, of how they shift out of geographic relevance
and into a historical archive when that happens, of how
merging a religion religion magazines into government
fully compromises any spiritual efficacy it might have
once claimed, of how religions religion magazines are
damaged when they involve themselves in economic exploitation,
or bind themselves to or even instigate the blind religio-nationalism
we see in so many countries today, including the US.
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General Religion Magazines and News Sites
BBC
- Religions - Provides information about the UK religions,
daily news, audio on demand and the best of the BBC's
religious programming.
Beliefnet
- Multi-faith site featuring articles on faith, prayer,
ethics, and similar info.
Cross
Currents - Articles on the major world religions including
Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism.
Ekklesia - News on theology, politics and public life
from the UK leading theological think-tank.
First
Things - Interreligious magazines presenting conservative
critique of contemporary society. Provides Catholic, Orthodox,
Jewish, and Protestant viewpoints.
Forum 18 - News and reports from everywhere religious
freedom is violated.
Harvard Divinity Bulletin - Quarterly magazines providing
analysis of current issues in religion and theology.
Inner
Self Magazines - Content focuses on spirituality as
opposed to religion. Topics from Christianity to Zen.
Journal of Biblical Studies - Features articles on
many aspects of biblical studies, including archaeology,
linguistics, exegesis, history, and textual issues.
Journal of Religion and Film - Peer-reviewed online
journal covering portrayals of religion in films.
Journal
for Cultural and Religious Theory - Devoted to both
disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship that deals
broadly with the phenomenon of religion and cultural theory.
Killing
the Buddha - Magazines "for people who somehow
want to be religious, who want to know what it means to
know the divine, but for good reasons are not and do not".
Knowledge of Reality - Australian magazines specializing
in Eastern religion.
Religion News Service (RNS) - Has a network of correspondents
around the world, providing news and information on all
faiths and religious movements.
Religioscope - French ezine about developments in
the religious field. Includes news, in-depth analyses
and interviews.
Worldwide
Faith News (WFN) - Full text searchable archive of
official news releases from the offices of national and
world faith groups.
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