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Internet

Taoism or Daoism?

October 25, 2009

Wade-Giles or Pinyin? Singaporean Taoists are moving to provide all their literature (canonical texts, websites, etc.) in English as well as Mandarin, and the newest priest-training college also plans to be bilingual. This is no huge surprise in an ex-British colony, but I was surprised to see the breakdown according to the 2000 census cited [...]

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Parsis in the Digital Age

October 11, 2009

One of the things that really interests me is how archaic and minority religions survive their various diasporas. AFP published a piece on how Parsis are using digital and social media technology to contact one another and bolster their religious identity. This can be anything from Zpeakerbox, an online zine for Zoroastrian youth to Facebook [...]

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Death 2.0

October 1, 2009

The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and the New York Times have all recently grappled with the notion of ‘digital afterlife’ – the online legacy left by the deceased. I particularly liked the Huffington Post’s assertion that “In the virtual realm, there is life after death.” Oh what religious ideas that notion might [...]

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Religious memery

September 16, 2009

Kanyegate didn’t happen than two days ago, and it’s already spawned a healthy internet meme. As with most memes, some of these involves religious themes and imagery. And because I’m a HUGE fan of Supernatural:

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Scientology, mob rule and “Gov 2.0″

September 14, 2009

I wasn’t following it at the time so this may not be news to anyone, but apparently the Obama administration’s Citizen’s Briefing Book – a collection of policy ideas submitted electronically by American citizens in the lead-up to the Inauguration – showed some interesting results. 44,000 proposals were floated by members of the public, and [...]

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Raëlians promote equal rights for women. Step 1: toplessness

September 13, 2009

Maybe that Raël guy isn’t so bad after all. Amercian Raëlians have been promoting the GoTopless protest day although, as it was the 23rd of August, I appear to have missed it. Never fear, however, as they’re now gearing up for a world-wide event to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the US constitution’s 19th [...]

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Dear Goog…

September 7, 2009

Paul Sheehan had a piece in The Age today about Google as a religion, although after a brief glimpse of the parodic Church of Google he launched into a description of Google as Mankind’s hive-mind. A hive-mind does not make for a god, Paul. It IS interesting, however, how much we rely on Google to [...]

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Edward Cullen, you’re my hero

September 6, 2009

I heard rumblings along the inter-tracks about a religion based on the Twilight novels (and, I suppose, films), but a Google search just pulled up a bunch of pages that seem to stem from an Urban Dictionary post (wherein the original poster coined the term “Twiligion”). The straighter-faced side of this stems from a thread [...]

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What does your Facebook info say about you?

September 6, 2009

I left the the Political and Religious Views fields on my Facebook profile blank, partly because I don’t subscribe to any easily definable school and partly because they’re not really anyone’s business. But while I might be jealous of my own privacy, I have no compunction scouring other people’s profiles to see what they’ve entered. [...]

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Strict seminarians have to share an email account

August 31, 2009

Just like in the Stone Age! Seminarians at the Redemptoris Mater House of Formation (peopled by those called from the Neocatechumenal Way) on the John Paul II Center for the New Evangelization campus in Denver (they can also be found all over the world, including Perth and Sydney) lead a more disciplined life than their [...]

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