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  1. Bowling Alone
    The Collapse and Revival of American Community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
  2. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
  3. Chasing a Mirage
    The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right."
    Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
  4. The Communistic Societies of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1875   Published: 1965
    Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
  5. Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
  6. Connexions Library: Religion Focus
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
  7. Easily Led
    A History of Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
  8. The Empire God Built
    Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
  9. Foundations of Christianity
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1908   Published: 1953
    I have proceeded to describe the roots of primitive Christianity without intending either to extol or stigmatize it, but merely to understand it.
  10. 1491
    New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
  11. Free speech for me - you shut up
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
  12. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
  13. From Fatwa to Jihad
    The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Tells the story both of the Rushdie affair and of its transformative impact on cultural and political landscape of the West. The book explores the issues that the Rushide affair raised. in particular the questions of muliculturalism, radical Islam and free speech, and shows how in responding to these issues Western liberals have betrayed the fundamental beliefs of liberalism.
  14. God and His Demons
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Parenti examines the dark side of religion, the many evils committed in the name of godly virtue throughout history. This is not a blanket condemnation of all believers. The focus is on the threat posed by fundamentalists and theocratic reactionaries.
  15. How not to understand Islamist politics
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
  16. How to Become a Real Muslim
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    When I was growing up in the 1980s the concept of a ‘radical’ in a Muslim context meant someone who was a militant secularist, someone who challenged not just racism but the power of the mosques too. Someone like me. Today, of course, it means almost the opposite – a ‘radical’ is a religious fundamentalist.
  17. In the name of GOD The abuses of religion
    New Internationalist August 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    Discusses the relationship between religion. The role of religion within political issues.
  18. Israeli Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews
    "Lost" American Youth Urged to Come to Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Israeli government has launched a television and internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews.
  19. Jails for Jesus
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    President Bush wants faith-based programs to take over social services. But what happens when evangelical Christians try their hand at running prisons?
  20. Married to Another Man
    Israel's Dilemma in Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Karmi argues that Israel has never been able to solve the original and unresolved Zionist quandary of how to create and maintain a Jewish state in a land inhabited by another people. She maintains that the problem is unsoluble and that the only solution is a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians are equal.
  21. Muslim Canadian Congress
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A grassroots organization that provides a voice to Muslims who are not represented by existing organizations; organizations that are either sectarian or ethnocentric, largely authoritarian, and influenced by a fear of modernity and an aversion to joy.
  22. The Myth of Muslim Conquest
    Less Threatening Than Imagined
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    It’s easy to mistake the high visibility of Islam in the West for a massive return to piety in Muslim communities. But for the last 20 years religious observance has stagnated, even slightly waned.
  23. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
  24. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2008
  25. The St. Petersburg Declaration
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    We are secular Muslims, and secular persons of Muslim societies. We are believers, doubters, and unbelievers, brought together by a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free and the unfree.
  26. Shadow Boxing
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Multiculturalists and clash of civilization warriors both start with the question: ‘Can Europe be the same with different people in it?’. They give different answers. But the question itself is the problem. It assumes that minority communities are homogenous wholes whose members will forever be attached to the cultures, faiths, beliefs and values of their forebears.
  27. Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
    Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
  28. Taking on the Religious Right
    A review of God and His Demons
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Michael Parenti confronts the dangers of religious fundamentalism.

Experts on Religion & Society in the Sources Directory

  1. Canadian Council of Christian Charities
  2. Canadian Encyclopedia
  3. Christian Reformed Church in North America
  4. Citizens for Public Justice
  5. Radical Digressions
  6. UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
  7. Women Living Under Muslim Law


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