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How to Cure 'Destructive Emotions'

Best-selling author Daniel Goleman finds in Buddhism a possible cure-all for anger, depression, and more.

Related Topics: Health, Emotional Health, Meditation, Psychology, Emotion, destructive emotions, Research, positive emotions, Practice, emotional state, interesting presentations, Brain

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Witness to History in Burma

Monks in Burma are being silenced, beaten, and murdered for their peaceful protests. Here's what happened and how we can help.

Related Topics: Faiths, Buddhism, mdash, Buddhist, Government, Human Rights, military junta, Burmas, Military, rubber bands, monastic meditation retreats, American military presence

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Crunchy Con

Rod Dreher blogs about religion, culture, and politics for Beliefnet.

Related Topics: Blogs, Conservative, Church, Religious, i, Catholic, Family, War, Political, Religious Conservatives, Religious Right

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When Unity is Long Overdue

Arab and South Asian Muslims in the U.S. are discovering a slighted brother in their fight for civil rights: Black Muslims.

Related Topics: Faiths, Islam, Civil Rights, group, civil rights era, immigrant community, civil rights experience, annual convention, Cooperation, advocacy groups, immigrant brothers dont

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Hindu Lite

With Britney going to a Hindu temple, karma on NBC, and yoga everywhere, Hinduism--or something like it--is hot in pop-culture.

Related Topics: Faiths, Hinduism, Hindu, Culture, American spirituality blenderPop, venerable imagesHindu groups, non denominational inner serenity, spirituality blenderPop culture, Theology, imagesHindu groups complaints, spiritual teachings

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Swami Uptown Archive: February 2005

Jesse Kornbluth's daily weblog on religion, spirituality, and politics.

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Loose Canon Archive: February 2005

Charlotte Hays's daily weblog on religion, spirituality, and politics.

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Loose Canon Archive: March 2005

Charlotte Hays's daily weblog on religion, spirituality, and politics.

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U.S. Hinduism Studies: The Critics Speak

What's wrong with Hinduism studies in the U.S.? Plenty, say non-scholars and scholars critical of the academy.

Related Topics: Faiths, Hinduism, Hinduism studies, Studies, South Asian Studies, Loves Child, Child Syndrome, psychoanalysis, Graduate School Research, US, Child Development

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