Discussion, news and information about religion on the internet - associated with Gary R. Bunt's Good Web Guide to World Religions. This site is part of virtuallyislamic.com. Feedback: blog at virtuallyislamic.com
Monday, October 18, 2004
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Monday, July 26, 2004
Forum 18 Archive, CHINA: Government blocks religious websites: "Chinese web-users are denied access to a range of religious sites based abroad, Forum 18 News Service has found after a two-month survey of how far the Chinese government's Golden Shield firewall, used to censor the internet, affects access to religious websites. Sites blocked include those related to the persecution of Christians and other religious faiths, the Dalai Lama, the Falun Gong religious movement, the Muslim Uygurs of Xinjiang and a number of Catholic sites, including the website of the Hong Kong diocese and the Divine Word Missionaries in Taiwan."
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Salon.com Technology | Thou shalt not steal: "Christian teens are just as eager to file-swap copyrighted music as any other youngsters. But if the word of God gets spread, would Jesus give a damn?"
Monday, June 28, 2004
Friday, June 11, 2004
Gay Spirituality & Culture blog -- with a comprehensive series of links to related spirituality pages.
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | China creates web vigilante site: "The Chinese authorities have begun a new website for people to report on what officials describe as illegal or unhealthy information on the internet"
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Thursday, June 03, 2004
The Daily Star - Arts & Culture - Keeper of The Word shares a few: on the role of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church, and its application of the internet
Monday, May 24, 2004
Friday, May 21, 2004
Thursday, May 20, 2004
CNN.com - Cyber church reacts to 'Satan' visit - May 19, 2004 "Britain's first three-dimensional cyber church has been forced to tighten security after a slew of abusive visitors ranted from the pulpit and swore in the aisles."
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Monday, May 17, 2004
The Daily Star - Lebanon News - 'The Passion' gets a new twist on Al-Manar: "Al-Manar Television has triggered yet another storm of controversy by broadcasting trailers mimicking Mel Gibson's contentious film, 'The Passion of the Christ,' with coalition soldiers compared to the Romans and Jews in the movie, and the Iraqis' suffering to that of Jesus."
Sunday, May 16, 2004
more on the First Church of Cyberspace (expect a struggle for this title -- see my book 'The Good Web Guide to World Religions'! The New York Times > National > Religion Journal: Services at the First Church of Cyberspace [subscription site]
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Nanny knows best "Considerate to a fault, the Chinese authorities have closed down more than 8,600 unlicensed internet cafes in the past three months to ensure the "healthy development" of the nation's impressionable young minds."
ABCNEWS.com : People Seek Haven From Too Much Data: "For the past 20 years Levy, a self-confessed e-mail addict, has sought balance between these disparate worlds. It has led him to meditation, aikido and, with his rabbi wife, a disciplined practice of Judaism. 'Because we observe Shabbat — the Sabbath — it means we don't work during that time, and I'm not on the computer,' he says. 'And as soon as the Sabbath is over, I run upstairs and go see what's happened in the last 24 or 25 hours.'"
Saturday, May 15, 2004
Wired News: Dropping the Bomb on Google: "In March, during a casual Web search, the 26-year-old real-estate investor accidentally found that Jew Watch, an anti-Semitic site, was the top Google result."
Yahoo! News - Internet Church Marries Christianity And Technology
"For those Internet junkies who embrace faith but just can't pull themselves away from their computers to attend church, fret no more. The United Kingdom's Ship of Fools--a Web site that dubs itself "The Magazine Of Christian Unrest"--has launched its Church of Fools, a Web-based place of worship that could go a long way toward assuaging modern Christian guilt."
Thursday, May 13, 2004
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Monday, April 26, 2004
MEMRI: Liberal Muslim Scholar: The Term 'Jihad' is Misunderstood by Islamist Clerics "In an article in the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari, former dean of the Faculty of Islamic Law at the University of Qatar, stated that modern Islamic Fatwas (religious legal opinions) distort the meaning of Jihad to justify an aggressive ideology."
Sunday, April 18, 2004
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Newsday.com - God talk is everywhere
"An online poll on Beliefnet.com, answered by about 12,000 people, found that 62 percent were reading the Bible more often after seeing "The Passion.""
"An online poll on Beliefnet.com, answered by about 12,000 people, found that 62 percent were reading the Bible more often after seeing "The Passion.""
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Sunday, April 04, 2004
Haaretz - Israel News - Digging for the roots of an age-old scourge discussion on what has been dubbed the "new anti-Semitism"
Aljazeera.Net - Palestinians love Mel Gibson's film
I'm sure that Mr Gibson is delighted in this news, although he won't be so pleased to learn that the film has been widely pirated in Gaza and the West Bank.
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Monday, March 29, 2004
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Friday, March 19, 2004
BBC NEWS | Technology | Bookies suffer online onslaught not a religious issue (necessarily - depending on whether divine intervention is part of a betting strategy), but an interesting technical one
Thursday, March 18, 2004
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
The Register, EC seeks to stamp out Net child porn, racism and spam lofty ideals here, but how are they going to achieve these aims?
World Religions found this interesting one in my travels. It's a class blog from the World Religions course a St Andrews. I'm going to be integrating blog into my teaching next session too. Seems to work well.
Saturday, March 13, 2004
Friday, March 12, 2004
Friday, March 05, 2004
Two stories about i-church and the new web pastor vacancy:
BBC NEWS | UK | Church plans parish in cyberspace
BBC NEWS | UK | Church plans parish in cyberspace
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Church of England to set up 'internet parish' "The purpose of the internet church or 'i-church', according to its website, "is to provide a Christian community for those who wish to explore Christian discipleship but who are not able, or do not wish, to join a local congregation"."
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Sunday, February 29, 2004
BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Politicians monitor the 'bloggers' an interesting article on how blogging can bridge the 'divide' in Northern Ireland. It also contains a micro-list of relevant links.
Friday, February 27, 2004
Reporters sans frontières - China: "Reporters Without Borders today condemned the latest Chinese effort to gag the Internet by means of directives to portals that have discussion groups. As a result of the directives, many news groups have closed since 23 February and filtering of online messages has been stepped up. Verisign's decision to assign China a DNS root server is also worrying for the Web's future."
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Hollywood moment for ancient language about the Aramaic used in Gibson's film - the story has a tech edge: "'The word we use for 'television' is 'surqolo',' Dr Kiraz explained. 'It's made up from the words for 'vision' and 'voice'.'"
the Wired Press - The Passion of The Christ: The Second Coming? satiral swipe at Mr Gibson's familiarity with sequels, with net reference.
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Infoshop News - Anonymous Blog Cracks Window Into Hasidic Community: "Yeedel, as we'll call him, writes an anonymous weblog (or 'blog'), a kind of online diary, under the pen name Hasidic Rebel. His comments, first posted in February, range from musings about the Hasidic lifestyle to stinging indictments of the community. "
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Reuters, China arrests Internet essayist "Chinese police have formally arrested a civil servant, whose Internet essays are critical of the government, for subversion in a case that has provoked widespread criticism of China's human rights record."
Saturday, February 14, 2004
Aljazeera.Net - New US channel raises Palestinian ire: "Farid Abu Dhuhair is Professor of Journalism and Mass communication at the Najah University in Nablus. He believes the very idea of launching al-Hurra station stems from a misunderstanding.
"Al-Hurra, it is claimed will 'tell us' Israel is not killing Palestinians
“The Americans think that we hate them because we don’t receive accurate information about the reality of American politics. This is not true.
"'America’s image is ugly because American policies and actions are ugly. America can’t act the way it is acting and expect Arabs and Muslims to love her.”
something of a pre-emtive critique of al-Hurra, found on al-Jazeera ...
Friday, February 13, 2004
Wednesday, February 04, 2004
ArabicNews.com, Al-Oroush links negotiations to approval of Amazigh as an official language, 2 Feb 2004 This is not an area I have previously addressed in this blog; an initial google of the subject revealed a number of online networks associated with Amazigh, including an online forum Amazigh.net and the AmazighOnline website, which claims to be a portal to the Amazigh world.
Yahoo, Open Source Gaining Traction in Asia this fits in with what I feel will be a significant development during the coming years, regarding accessability to technology (also discussed elsewhere in this blog).
Sunday, February 01, 2004
Friday, January 30, 2004
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | 54 jailed in China over internet use "Detainees also include followers of the banned Falun Gong movement"
This refers to a report from Amnesty International:People's Republic of China - Controls tighten as Internet activism grows
This refers to a report from Amnesty International:People's Republic of China - Controls tighten as Internet activism grows
BBC NEWS | Business | Nigeria to tackle e-mail scams let me introduce myself .... 419 scams discussed at World Economic Forum
Monday, January 26, 2004
Times Online - Sunday Times: "ATTENDANCE at Britain’s mosques has outstripped the number of regular worshippers in the Church of England for the first time."
Friday, January 23, 2004
AlterNet: The American Taliban: "The Internet has certainly enabled folks on the far right to circulate plenty of hate propaganda and scurrilous conspiracy theories at minimal expense. This has helped with the spread of everything from Holocaust denial to bogus tracts about black genetic inferiority and fear mongering about non-white immigration. "
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Reuters, Pray for the web porn browsers, 20 Jan 2004: "The rabbi recommends that Jews recite the prayer when they log on to the Internet or even programme it to flash up on their computer screens so they are spiritually covered whether they enter a porn site intentionally or by mistake."
Telegraph | News | Bible Belt missionaries set out on a 'war for souls' in Iraq: "US Christian evangelists want to 'save Muslim souls' in Iraq". Missed this one when it came out, but it remains relevant.
Reuters | WWII aerial photographs on the Internet: "From the smoke billowing from the incinerator of the Auschwitz concentration camp in which millions of Jews were murdered by the Nazis, to the U.S. landings on Omaha beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the pictures tell dramatic stories."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "'My sons are more important to me than all of Palestine. I would be lying if I said I would willingly send my son (to carry out a suicide attack). What for? I don't believe these attacks are useful,' Ghanem, 49, told Reuters."
Friday, January 16, 2004
BBC NEWS | Wales | Police win paedophile internet ban: "A Welsh police force has won what is thought to be a ground-breaking ruling which bans a paedophile from using the internet and mobile phones. "
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Aljazeera.Net - Rabbi on trial for opposing demolitions: "An Israeli rabbi who heads a human rights group will be put on trial on Wednesday for attempting to block the demolition of Palestinian homes by standing in front of Israeli bulldozers. "
Monday, January 12, 2004
Women Not Prohibited From Driving in Islam, Says Al-Qarni : "Sheikh Ayed Al-Qarni, a prominent Saudi Islamic scholar, has said that Islam does not prohibit women from driving but that the matter must be seriously discussed. He said he preferred a woman driving her car herself rather than being driven by a stranger without a legal escort.
“There is no definite text (either in the Qur’an or Sunnah) that bans women driving,” said the scholar, who is known for his moderate Islamic views, in an interview with Al-Hayat newspaper. He called for a debate on the issue by prominent scholars."
“There is no definite text (either in the Qur’an or Sunnah) that bans women driving,” said the scholar, who is known for his moderate Islamic views, in an interview with Al-Hayat newspaper. He called for a debate on the issue by prominent scholars."
The Register, Lastminute.com cleared of 'mocking the Christian faith', 7 January 2004: "Lastminute.com has been cleared of 'mocking the Christian faith' after running a series of ads calling on people to 'keep weekends sacred'.
"The captions accompanying posters (which showed streams of bright sunlight through the clouds) were written in mock bible-speak.
"Take this one for example: 'Thou shalt not spend thine Sabbath arguing in a Swedish furniture store, but shalt see a west-end show for less silver pieces than a fancy lamp.'"
"The captions accompanying posters (which showed streams of bright sunlight through the clouds) were written in mock bible-speak.
"Take this one for example: 'Thou shalt not spend thine Sabbath arguing in a Swedish furniture store, but shalt see a west-end show for less silver pieces than a fancy lamp.'"
Monday, January 05, 2004
Wired News: Beyond Google: Narrow the Search useful for those of use (re-)searching 'religion' on the web.
sacbee.com -- Religion -- Time to move on: "Last May, Ahmad wrote a column on what he saw as some of the concerns of the Muslim community and posted it on the mosque Web site (www.masjidibrahim.com). The response, he says, was overwhelming. He heard from people all over the country who agreed with his views. The column was the impetus for the conference.
In his column, Ahmad wrote about the need for Muslim social services and for a unified religious body in this country that sets rules and guidelines. He understands why some people may be reluctant, given the experience of Islamic governing bodies in other countries, but says one is needed here. He chided Muslims for not attending services regularly and not providing financial support to their local mosques, among other issues. He also discussed race."
In his column, Ahmad wrote about the need for Muslim social services and for a unified religious body in this country that sets rules and guidelines. He understands why some people may be reluctant, given the experience of Islamic governing bodies in other countries, but says one is needed here. He chided Muslims for not attending services regularly and not providing financial support to their local mosques, among other issues. He also discussed race."
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