Month: December 2011
‘Brothers in faith’ | Recordnet.com
'Brothers in faith' | Recordnet.com. Worshippers at the Masjid al Emaan mosque congregate in a nondescript office park on Pershing Avenue in north Stockton. The mosque has been around for only a few years, and its small membership has diminished in the aftermath of an unsolved arson fire seven months ago. Temple Sinai in Oakland is the oldest synagogue in the East Bay, dating back more than 130 years, with nearly 1,000 member families. In terms of its history and size, it would seem to be much farther from Masjid al Emaan than a mere 75-minute drive. And yet, when…
Mood-Tuner for iPad @moodtuner
App designed by a friend of mine. Good fun, and cheap too. Mood-Tuner for iPad on the iTunes App Store. Mood-Tuner is a mindfulness tool that helps you build emotional fitness. Think of it like a life-coach/ guru/ therapist in-your-pocket. It is a set of easy, pick-me-up practices that you can do anytime, anywhere. Using special questions to redirect your inner dialog, Mood-Tuner helps you shift from stuck to inspired; from "blah" to "awesome!". Mood-Tuner was born out of a desire to create a stress-free way to implement the lessons from personal development and wisdom traditions into our real lives.…
Why the World Needs Religious Studies | Culture | Religion Dispatches
Why the World Needs Religious Studies | Culture | Religion Dispatches. May the field forgive me for offering a bit of very crude historical psychoanalysis and master-narrativizing to catch everyone up on where we stand. Academic, non-sectarian religious studies in the United States can be more or less traced to the Supreme Court’s 1963 Abington Township v. Schempp decision, which carved out a distinction between teaching about religion, which is okay, and the teaching of religion, which violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. Catechists had to shuffle out of public classrooms, and suddenly there was space for a new kind…
Keeping Faith: Amaney Jamal – The Daily Princetonian
Keeping Faith: Amaney Jamal – The Daily Princetonian. The following is the first installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths. Amaney Jamal is a politics professor and practicing Muslim whose work focuses on Middle Eastern politics, democratization and the politics of civic engagement in the Arab world.
Holiday Resources for the Corporate Idealist
More on conscious shopping. Glad I came across her work. Holiday Resources for the Corporate Idealist. In my TEDx talk, I spoke about the many people fighting the good fight inside companies, working towards better social and environmental practices — which can be a lonely job. If you’re one of them, make a New Year’s resolution to connect with folks in other companies doing similar work. Believe me, it will help sustain you through 2012.
tabsir.net » The haram that is not sacred
tabsir.net » The haram that is not sacred. There is a dangerous dualism that has haunted Islamic societies since the very start of the faith. I am speaking about the haram that results from individuals and groups that seek to enforce a distinction between haram and halal through violence. The recent waves of sectarian killings are a chilling reminder of the harm that can be caused in the name of stamping out haram.
Video: Christine Bader on Being a Corporate Idealist
Great talk on what corporations can do to affect positive change, and how we as consumers can make them do this.
Me the Muslim Next Door : Home
Me the Muslim Next Door : Home. The webseries “Me, the Muslim Next Door” introduces you to Dania, Eduardo, Jamilla, Laila, Mehdi, Rizwan and Suad, seven young Canadian Muslims living in Montreal and Toronto. We invite you to experience their reality through 24 segments of video, audio, and photos that sheds light on what it's like to be young, Canadian and Muslim. Enjoy a total of more than 120 minutes of content that breaks down stereotypes and delves into their personal stories.
Red Room: The True Threat Brewing Inside American-Muslim Communities: Women
I like Samina’s piece because we have not been having the gender conversation at all. I think it does show the structural sexism that is not unique to Arabs/Muslims/Catholics/etc.. I think she also ends on the right note, that this show may not represent everyone’s experience, but it’s creating a lot of good conversations. Red Room: The True Threat Brewing Inside American-Muslim Communities: Women. The truth is, we need Nina Bazzy on T.V. as much as we need Suehaila showing us that she’s not the stereotypical conservative we envision when we imagine a hijabi. Together with superstitious Samira and rebellious Shadia,…