Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, a prominent Islamic leader is going to issue an incredibly detailed fatwa tomorrow in London that denounces terrorism and suicide bombing in the name of Islam.
What do we want to be?
Tag Archive: spirituality
10 sectors to watch over the next decade (part 5)
So we’ve come to the final installment in my ‘10 sectors to watch’ series, and I can definitely say that it’s been difficult cutting down the list to just ten. I’m going to finish today with two sectors that both represent social changes rather than merely technological ones.
Friday Link Roundup: New Religious Movements
Given yesterday’s Site of the Week, I figured that it would be appropriate to use this week’s Link Roundup to focus on cults and new religious movements.
Site of the Week: The Rick Ross Institute
Collecting information, news articles, interviews, personal accounts and more surrounding the topic of ‘destructive cults, controversial groups and movements’, The Rick A. Ross Institute has been collating a great deal of data over the past thirteen years.
Quarter of global population now Muslim
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has just released a report that indicates that the global Muslim population is now very close to a quarter of the estimated total population of humankind. About 60% of this population resides in Asia, with Indonesia having the highest proportion with 12.9% of the overall Muslim population worldwide.
The Neuroscience of Buddhist meditation and spiritual practice
A video covering some of the latest thinking within the neuroscience community on the physiological effects of spiritual practice within the brain – with a particular focus on Buddhist mindfulness meditation.
Australian Government continues to fund Exclusive Brethren “cult”
ABC News in Australia is today reporting that the current government continues to provide funding for schools run by a controversial religious movement called the Exclusive Brethren.
Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme, follower of Charles Manson, released from jail
Given the recent write-up I did a few days ago on ‘5 signs that you may belong to a dangerous cult’, I figure that many of you might be interested to know that Lynette ‘Squeeky’ Fromme was released from jail today after having served almost 40 years in prison for the attempted assassination of US President Gerald Ford in 1975.
5 signs that you may belong to a dangerous cult
Today, I will be taking a look at a rather controversial and tricky subject – religious ‘cults’. By highlighting some warning signs that I have seen in various groups myself, I hope that somebody reading this may be able to avoid some internal turmoil and emotional, or even physical, pain in the future.
