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Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: Religion
"This Dark World" by Carolyn S. Briggs
A woman describes her ecstatic conversion to Christian fundamentalism and her slow, difficult journey out again.
A night of engrams and clears
At the Scientologists' birthday bash for the late L. Ron Hubbard, it all comes down to the e-meter.
Seek, and ye shall find
Passover is the Jewish day of remembrance. I forgot. But I rebounded with a sober yoga vegan Seder.
Between religion and morality
The preaching of pompous czars of virtue on the right doesn't hold up in the face of hypocrisy.
John Ashcroft's holy war
Once again, the attorney general's deeply held religious beliefs interfere with his job as defender of the Constitution.
Seeing the light
A former Christian fundamentalist recalls a life of ferocious, intractable faith -- and the moments it began to crumble.
Sex and the suicide bomber
The tales have tantalized the Western press, but it wasn't visions of black-eyed virgins in paradise that motivated the Sept. 11 hijackers.
The Muslim population riddle
Hampered by Islam's relative newness in America, as well as political sensitivities, experts struggle and spar over estimates of the number of Muslims practicing here.
Getting high with the Sufis
A British journalist spends a night in a Pakistani graveyard with the drummers and dancers of Islam's Aquarian branch.
"Islam: Religion of the Sword?"
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