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		<title>Is the Fight for Gay Rights Over?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bishop John Shelby Spong is revered by those affiliated with progressive Christianity and scorned by conservatives.  For years he has been an outspoken advocate for the cause of women, gays and lesbians, and people of color.  Candace Chellew-Hodge considers Bishop Spong&#8217;s recent declaration: &#8220;The battle is over. The victory has been won.&#8221;  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=religioncompass.wordpress.com&blog=1913677&post=3470&subd=religioncompass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Conference Report: Day Nine (29 Oct, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam Cooper (Managing Editor)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paula Bowles
Today marked the penultimate day of Wiley-Blackwell’s first Virtual Conference. As I am sure you will all agree, thus far, each day has contained many gems, and today has been no different. Eileen Joy’s (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) keynote lecture: ‘Reading Beowulf in the Ruins of Grozny: Pre/modern, Post/human, and the Question of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=religioncompass.wordpress.com&blog=1913677&post=3467&subd=religioncompass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Conference Report: Day Eight (28 Oct, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam Cooper (Managing Editor)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paula Bowles
Day eight of the conference was once again marked by some excellent contributions. The first paper ‘Cultural Sociology and Other Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity in the Cultural Sciences’ by Diane Crane (University of Pennsylvania) suggests that for many scholars ‘disciplinary isolation is the norm.’ However, Crane proposes that by utilising what she describes as ‘free‐floating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=religioncompass.wordpress.com&blog=1913677&post=3465&subd=religioncompass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Conference Report: Day Seven (27 Oct, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam Cooper (Managing Editor)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paula Bowles
The seventh day of the conference has continued with the key themes of ‘breaking down boundaries’ and interdisciplinarity. Roy Baumeister (Florida State University) began the day with his keynote lecture entitled ‘Human Nature and Culture: What is the Human Mind Designed for?’ By utilising the concepts of evolutionary and cultural psychology, Buameister is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=religioncompass.wordpress.com&blog=1913677&post=3463&subd=religioncompass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NEWS: ‘Homophobic’ Scientologists found Guilty of Fraud</title>
		<link>http://religioncompass.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/news-%e2%80%98homophobic%e2%80%99-scientologists-found-guilty-of-fraud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The controversial Church of Scientology has found itself once more under the media and legal spotlight. Two recent stories from the BBC have reported allegations of ‘homophobia’ by an ex-member, as well as a guilty verdict against Scientology, in the long running French trial. In the first report, Oscar winning director, Paul Haggis is alleged [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=religioncompass.wordpress.com&blog=1913677&post=3457&subd=religioncompass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Conference Report: Day Six (26 Oct, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paula Bowles
Welcome to the second week of the Wiley-Blackwell Virtual Conference. The first day back has started with a keynote speech from Peter Ludlow (Northwestern University) entitled ‘Virtual Communities, Virtual Cultures, Virtual Governance.’ Conference delegates also had the opportunity to meet Peter at the Second Life Cocktail Bar.
There were two other papers on Monday’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=religioncompass.wordpress.com&blog=1913677&post=3455&subd=religioncompass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NEWS: BNP Accused of Hijacking Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Nick Griffin’s recent appearance on the BBC Question Time programme &#8211; aired on Thursday 22 October 2009 – the media has been caught up in a frenzy of analysis. Much of this has focused upon the discussion as to whether or not the British National Party [BNP] should have ever been allowed to propagate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=religioncompass.wordpress.com&blog=1913677&post=3450&subd=religioncompass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Conference Report: Day Five (23 Oct, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam Cooper (Managing Editor)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by paulabowles
The first week of the conference has come to an end, and the final day has included two exciting papers, as well as a publishing workshop. The first paper entitled ‘Full Disclosure of the “Raw Data” of Research on Humans: Citizens’ Rights, Product Manufacturer’s Obligations and the Quality of the Scientific Database’ was presented [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=religioncompass.wordpress.com&blog=1913677&post=3447&subd=religioncompass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NEWS: Sacred Space on Craigslist?</title>
		<link>http://religioncompass.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/news-sacred-space-on-craigslist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cara Burnidge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ On Sunday October 25, 2009 Lutheran Church of the Messiah in Greenpoint, Brooklyn celebrated its 110th anniversary. As this special occasion approached, the church&#8217;s pastor, Reverend Griffin Thomas, found himself in a position that many other pastors experience&#8211;he is the leader of a church with a steadily declining congregation. More troubling for Pastor Thomas, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=religioncompass.wordpress.com&blog=1913677&post=3443&subd=religioncompass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NEWS: Prophetess of Health reexamined</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stanthayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ellen G. White (1827-1915), co-founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist church, is the subject of a four-day conference concluding Sunday, October 25, 2009, in Portland, Maine. The conference is part of a larger Ellen White Project that will culminate in a book manuscript submitted to Oxford University Press. Sixty-five prominent scholars of American religion&#8212;authors of book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=religioncompass.wordpress.com&blog=1913677&post=3435&subd=religioncompass&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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