Content tagged "religion"
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Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a scientific view of the world. As a teenager experimenting in his own laboratory, he was impressed by the logic and materiality of a universe governed by a small number of disembodied forces and laws that decree all things in the world are material and impermanent. But one summer evening, while looking at the stars from a small boat at sea, Lightman was overcome by the overwhelming sensation that he was merging with something larger than himself–a grand and eternal unity, a hint of something absolute and immaterial. Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine is Lightman’s exploration of these seemingly contradictory impulses.
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Being Muslim in America (and MIT) in 2016
Cambridge City Councilman Nadeem Mazen and Wise Systems co-founder Layla Shaikley–both MIT alumni–join engineering student Abubakar Abid to explore how hateful, discriminatory rhetoric influences public opinion, discuss its impact on the lives of Muslim-Americans, and examine strategies to combat it.
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Tom Levenson on science, religion, and the Thirty Meter Telescope
“The dispute over the Thirty Meter Telescope has been framed as the latest skirmish in the long-running campaign pitting science against religion. That’s a mistake.”
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The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane
“A provocative and entertaining look at the psychology of superstition and religion, how they make us human—and how we can use them to our advantage.”
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Mr g: A Novel About the Creation
“’As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe.’ So begins Alan Lightman’s playful and profound new novel, Mr g.”
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The Accidental Universe
“These phenomena have been explained as necessary consequences of the fundamental laws of nature. This long and appealing trend may be coming to an end.”
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Protected: Representing Islam
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Henry Jenkins cited, from corporate policies to religious tweeting
Henry Jenkins has suggested that companies may one day recruit whole groups that form around online games.
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Podcast and video: “Evangelicals and the Media”
American evangelicals have a long history of engagement with the media, dating back to Great Awakening of the late eighteenth century. Today evangelical groups are active in all media, from the Internet and cellular telephones to print journalism, broadcasting, film, and multi-media entertainment.
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Evangelicals and the Media
Today evangelical groups are active in all media, from the Internet and cellular telephones to print journalism, broadcasting, film, and multi-media entertainment
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Science Fiction Author Joe Haldeman Says Write Every Day
Haldeman and Henry Jenkins discussed the ways in which scientific knowledge plays into science fiction as well as the interaction between science and religion in terms of the sci-fi genre.
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Media Evangelism in the Global South
Timothy Stoneman outlines the historical origins, systemic achievements, and interpretive implications of the American missionary radio broadcasting enterprise in Africa, Asia, and Latin America during its formative era, 1945 to 1970.
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Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture
Heather Hendershot on how the growth of evangelical media has resulted in its most popular products being those with diluted Christian messages.
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The Book as Looking Glass: Improving Works for and about Children in Early Modern England
Exploring three developments pertaining to children and reading in seventeenth-century England, including how profoundly death was implicated in the development of thought about children’s reading.
