Religion News: Evangelical leaders from around the world answer survey
A new study from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life offers a detailed portrait of 2,196 evangelical leaders from 166 countries and territories who were invited to attend the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization held in October 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Evangelical leaders who live in the Global South (sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East/North Africa, Latin America and most of Asia) as well as the Global North (Europe, North America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand) participated in the survey, which was conducted in nine languages from August to December 2010. Among the major findings:
Beliefs and practices
Of the evangelical leaders surveyed, 96 percent say that Christianity is the one, true faith leading to eternal life, and 95 percent say that believing otherwise is incompatible with being a good evangelical. Leaders in the Global South are more likely than those in the Global North to read the Bible literally (58 percent vs. 40 percent); to favor making the Bible the official law of the land in their countries (58 percent vs. 28 percent); and to say consuming alcohol is incompatible with being a good evangelical (75 percent vs. 23 percent).Social and political attitudes
Leaders from the Global South are nearly twice as likely as those from the Global North to say all adults have a responsibility to marry and have children (60 percent vs. 33 percent). Of those surveyed, 84 percent think religious leaders should express their views on political matters, while 13 percent say religious leaders should not express their views.Week in Religion
- June 28, 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that state underwriting of nonreligious instruction in parochial schools was unconstitutional.
- June 29, 1810, in Bradford, Mass., the first U.S. missionary society was organized: the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
- June 30, 1974, Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr., and a church deacon were killed by a crazed gunman in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga.
-- William D.
Breakdown Of Africa By Religion - News
Religion murders people with ignorance and always has, grow up, use condoms, stop worshipping a 65 year old white man in the sky that is always watching you even while you pee. I seriously doubt these people have aids because of western religion.
Here's one way that religion comes into this cycle: The northern herders, who are nomads, are frequently Muslims, thanks to centuries of travel along trading routes. Across much of inland Africa, as they move south, they run into farmers who are
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Dialogues: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Call for Papers
We invite paper proposals that address the theme of this conference from scholars working on Africa and the African diaspora. This multi disciplinary conference will launch a five year project that will explore the place and role of religion, ethics, and theology in the new millennium in light of the major shifts that have taken place in Africa and the African diaspora. These shifts have been marked political transformations, the emergence of the African Union, economic prospects in some countries and continuing crisis in some, health care crisis and HIV and AIDS, conflicts and wars, increasing challenges on gender issues, the shifting dynamics of religious institutions and the growth of Pentecostalism, as well as the shifting voice of religious communities in this new context. The end of apartheid in South Africa and the rise of few democratic states in Africa offered a promising opportunity for democratic rule, reconciliation, renaissance, and a new partnership for development. Participants at the conference will explore the voice or lack of voice which we perceive in religion, ethics, and theology and think of new ways for scholars across disciplines to engage in a new and broad based conversation on these issues. Africa stands at a cross roads in many ways and there is a need to reassess the voice or voicelessness of religion, ethics, and theology as a way of starting a new debate on human and social values that are necessary for recovery and growth in a global context. The interrogation of these broad issues could bring new questions in light of recovery projects like the African renaissance, new institutions like NEPAD established to bring transformations in Africa and the diaspora. Then there are perennial questions about the role scholars of religion, ethics, and theology could play in shaping an interdisciplinary quest for justice as they did in the past.
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