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		<title>GAFCON Closes - Deepening Rift in Anglican Communion</title>
		<link>http://religioncompass.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/deepening-rift-in-anglican-communion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Hundreds of conservative Anglican bishops yesterday closed a meeting in Jerusalem where they met to discuss the future of the Anglican Communion in the face of an increasingly serious internal schism. The Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon) has been seen by many as a direct challenge and boycott of the Anglican’s 10-yearly conference in Lambeth.
Homosexuality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations With History series - Bart D. Ehrman on the problem of human suffering</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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The Conversations with History video series (from the University of California, Berkeley) recently published an engaging and broad-ranging interview with controversial biblical scholar, Bart Ehrman (UNC Chapel Hill).
Ehrman and host Harry Kreisler discuss Ehrman’s latest book, God&#8217;s Problem, and his personal journey from evangelical youth to agnostic scholar.
Recorded April 17, 2008
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		<title>Joint History Compass / Religion Compass podcast available now: Islamic Fundamentalism and Political Islam</title>
		<link>http://religioncompass.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/joint-history-compass-religion-compass-podcast-available-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 16:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam Cooper (Associate Managing Editor)</dc:creator>
		
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This free podcast offers a discussion between Yoav Di-Capua, co-editor of the Middle &#38; Near East section of History Compass, and Tamara Sonn, Editor-in-Chief of Religion Compass and History Compass author. Here they skillfully examine Tamara&#8217;s article: Islamic Fundamentalism and Political Islam
This succinct and engaging podcast explores common misconceptions about political actors from the Muslim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the Purple Pill: On the Paradoxical Pedagogy of Mysticism</title>
		<link>http://religioncompass.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/taking-the-purple-pill-on-the-paradoxical-pedagogy-of-mysticism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam Cooper (Associate Managing Editor)</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey J. Kripal
Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation that I can receive from another soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Divinity School Address, July 15, 1838

Scene one. Part fiction, part fact. I am teaching a course for which I have assigned a standard collection of essays on the study of sexuality and Christian mysticism. In one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Philosophy of Religion in an Age of Terror: What Is To Be Done?</title>
		<link>http://religioncompass.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/the-philosophy-of-religion-in-an-age-of-terror-what-is-to-be-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam Cooper (Associate Managing Editor)</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Beverley Clack
Brian R. Clack

Philosophy of religion as a discipline seems peculiarly resistant to change. A glance through the plethora of textbooks in the field gives one the impression of a subject largely cocooned from events within the world, a subject, the focus of which, is on timeless otherworldly realities and problems. As Oxford philosopher Tim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Study Religion</title>
		<link>http://religioncompass.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/how-to-study-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam Cooper (Associate Managing Editor)</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert A. Segal 
In memory of Harold Shipman
The most common metaphor for the study of religion is that of conversation. The scholar learns from the believer. Conversation does not mean interrogation. Conversation means clarification. The scholar can ask questions of any kind. The questions can be tough and critical. The believer can be asked to say not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Religion Compass Exchanges!</title>
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Welcome to this new discussion forum, edited by Robert Segal (University of Aberdeen).
This is the companion forum to Wiley-Blackwell’s on-line survey journal, Religion Compass, and our regular contributors are drawn partly from the journal’s international team of section editors and editorial board members.
Robert Segal will commission several new discussions every year, consisting of an initial [...]]]></description>
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