December 28, 2020 / Last updated : December 28, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media: 40,000+ Documents from Religious Bodies Census Digitized Nearly a Century Later

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media: 40,000+ Documents from Religious Bodies Census Digitized Nearly a Century Later. “Today the American Religious Ecologies project is releasing the initial version of a website that makes available tens of thousands of documents from the 1926 U.S. Census of Religious Bodies. These schedules, or forms, describe religious […]
December 26, 2020 / Last updated : December 26, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Deutsche Welle: Pakistan threatens Google, Wikipedia over ‘sacrilegious content’

Deutsche Welle: Pakistan threatens Google, Wikipedia over ‘sacrilegious content’. “The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) called for the immediate removal of ‘unlawful content’ from Google. The regulators pointed to pages that name religious leader Mirza Masroor Ahmad as the current ‘Khalifa’ or leader of Islam, thus contradicting dominant religious beliefs in the country. They also decried […]
December 19, 2020 / Last updated : December 19, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Buddhist Door: First Online Exhibition of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on Shared Buddhist Heritage Opens

Buddhist Door: First Online Exhibition of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on Shared Buddhist Heritage Opens. “The exhibition features the latest technologies, including 3D scanning, a webGL platform, virtual space utilization, innovative curation and narration methodology, and more. Visitors have an excellent opportunity to gain knowledge and a glimpse of the artistic wealth displayed in various museums […]
December 13, 2020 / Last updated : December 13, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Wall Street Journal: In India, Facebook Fears Crackdown on Hate Groups Could Backfire on Its Staff

Wall Street Journal: In India, Facebook Fears Crackdown on Hate Groups Could Backfire on Its Staff. “Adherents of Bajrang Dal, which has been deemed a militant religious organization by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, have been convicted of hate crimes and religiously motivated killings, and some Facebook communities devoted to it celebrate images of people […]
December 11, 2020 / Last updated : December 11, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

“Athonite Digital Ark”: Worldwide project to highlight the treasures of Mount Athos (Orthodox Times)

Orthodox Times: “Athonite Digital Ark”: Worldwide project to highlight the treasures of Mount Athos. “The ‘Athonite Digital Ark’ is the largest project in Greece in the field of digital culture. It is an ark of knowledge that includes in digital form the cultural stock of the Holy Monasteries of Mount Athos. This multi-level project lasted […]
December 9, 2020 / Last updated : December 9, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

From Secrecy to #WitchTok: How the Internet Is Demystifying Africana Religions (Boston University)

Boston University: From Secrecy to #WitchTok: How the Internet Is Demystifying Africana Religions. “Today, a number of public online communities dedicated to Africana practices have emerged in places like Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, and recently TikTok, where the tag #WitchTok has gained over 1.7 billion views.”
December 7, 2020 / Last updated : December 7, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Duke Today: A Look Into a Living Tradition of Preaching at Duke Chapel

Duke Today: A Look Into a Living Tradition of Preaching at Duke Chapel. “Launched on Dec. 2, the Living Tradition webpages serve as an introduction to, and a pedagogical tool for, the Duke Chapel Recordings digital archive, hosted on the Duke Libraries website, which contains more than 3,000 videos, audio recordings and manuscripts of sermons […]
December 6, 2020 / Last updated : December 6, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

CNN: Supreme Court’s scientifically illiterate decision will cost lives

CNN: Supreme Court’s scientifically illiterate decision will cost lives. “Last month, I wrote that Amy Coney Barrett would help to usher in a new post-truth jurisprudence on the Supreme Court. While I had cited her anti-science statements on climate change, her arrival on the court has created a new 5-4 majority against public-health science at […]
December 5, 2020 / Last updated : December 5, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Nottingham Post: Tequila bar owner registers it as a religion in bid to legally open during Tier 3 lockdown

Nottingham Post: Tequila bar owner registers it as a religion in bid to legally open during Tier 3 lockdown. “The owner of a city tequila bar has applied for his business to become a religion. 400 Rabbits Tequila and Mezcal Cocktail Bar, in Hurts Yard, has registered to become ‘The Church of The Four Hundred […]
November 30, 2020 / Last updated : November 30, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Gothamist: Maskless Indoor Religious Gathering With Hundreds Of Attendees Not Illegal, De Blasio Says

Gothamist: Maskless Indoor Religious Gathering With Hundreds Of Attendees Not Illegal, De Blasio Says. “Hundreds of maskless men gathered inside a Bed-Stuy synagogue on Tuesday night for yet another celebration honoring the marriage of two prominent ultra-Orthodox families. But according to NYC sheriffs at the scene, the indoor festivities violated neither city nor state COVID […]
November 29, 2020 / Last updated : November 29, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Politico: Major shift at Supreme Court on Covid-19 orders

Politico: Major shift at Supreme Court on Covid-19 orders. “The Supreme Court signaled a major shift in its approach to coronavirus-related restrictions late Wednesday, voting 5-4 to bar New York state from reimposing limits on religious gatherings. The emergency rulings, issued just before midnight, were the first significant indication of a rightward shift in the […]
November 28, 2020 / Last updated : November 28, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

New York Times: $15,000 Fine After Secret Hasidic Wedding Draws Thousands of Guests

New York Times: $15,000 Fine After Secret Hasidic Wedding Draws Thousands of Guests. “Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered to celebrate a wedding inside a cavernous hall in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood earlier this month, dancing and singing with hardly a mask in sight. The wedding was meticulously planned, and so were efforts to conceal it from […]
November 25, 2020 / Last updated : November 25, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Sydney Morning Herald: Church cancels world’s largest Catholic pilgrimage over pandemic

Sydney Morning Herald: Church cancels world’s largest Catholic pilgrimage over pandemic. ” Mexico’s Roman Catholic Church announced the cancellation on Monday of what’s considered the world’s largest Catholic pilgrimage, for the Virgin of Guadalupe, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mexico’s Episcopal Conference said in a statement that the basilica will be closed from December 10-13. […]