While Reiki has one million practitioners in the West, it remains little known in Japan. My adventures in Tokyo searching for the grave of its founder Mikao Usui bitterwinter.org/reiki-in-searc…

Une page d’histoire du spiritisme en bande dessinée: une BD vient rappeler la curiosité de savants pour les phénomènes psychiques, à travers les figures de Pierre et Marie Curie. #spiritisme #BD mayer.im/2023-11-page-h…

Paganism is a potent force in Ireland’s conservation movement. According to Juju Laine, long-held beliefs in an ‘Otherworld’ inhabited by wrathful fairies are now driving a resurgence in Irish eco-activism. Psyche Magazine #paganism #environment #Ireland psyche.co/ideas/paganism…

Unhappy About Ukraine War, More And More Moldovan Priests Are Leaving Russian-Led Orthodox Church rferl.org/a/moldova-orth…

Bitter Winter offers the first English translation of the Regulations on Religious Affairs for Xinjiang, coming into force on February 1 and creating for the region a more restrictive system for religion than elsewhere in China bitterwinter.org/coming-in-febr…

Who Is a True Christian? by David W. Congdon Explores why the question of what defines Christianity has become so damagingly vexatious - and how believers might conceive of it differently. 📚 cup.org/3Ne7WMJ

Dans une église à moitié vide : la faible fréquentation des services religieux en #Russie et ce que les chiffres d'appartenance veulent dire. #Orthodoxie #pratiquereligieuse #statistiques colinlebedev.fr/2024/01/08/dan… via Anna Colin Lebedev

Un nouveau livre de Stéphane Lacroix: 'Le crépuscule des Saints' - une socio-histoire du salafisme égyptien. Comment ce mouvement ultraconservateur a-t-il gagné en influence pour se placer au cœur de la normativité islamique sunnite ? #salafisme cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/scie…

Launch of 'Al-Mizan: A Covenant for the Earth' at the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) in Nairobi, Kenya. Islamic scholars call Muslim nations to cut fossil fuels, echoing 'Laudato Si' ncronline.org/node/265576 via EarthBeat #Islam #environment

What it's like to be (temporarily) ordained as a Buddhist monk? Come along as WPLN reporter Char Daston shadows Don Srisuryo at Wat Lao Buddharam temple in Murfreesboro. And don't miss the photography by Rachel Iacovone! wpln.org/post/why-a-tha…

[Rappel] La désécularisation interne du catholicisme français 🗣️Conférence de Yann Raison du Cleuziou 🗓️9 mai 24, 12h30-14h 📍UQAM + En ligne ➡️cridaq.uqam.ca/activite/du-cl… Faculté des sciences humaines de l'UQAM Faculté de science politique et de droit - UQAM Actualités UQAM Département de sociologie - UQAM Société québécoise pour l'étude de la religion Religioscope IÉR - Institut d'études religieuses UdeM UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal

Eastern Orthodox Church ordains Zimbabwean woman as its first deaconess religionnews.com/2024/05/03/eas… via RNS #OrthodoxChurch #Patriarchate_of_Alexandria #deaconess

Morto PierLuigi Zoccatelli, il sociologo che studiava le religioni con metodo scientifico. PierLuigi si è concentrato in special modo sullo studio delle minoranze religiose, specializzandosi soprattutto nell’esoterismo. torino.corriere.it/notizie/cronac… #Cesnur #PierLuigiZoccatelli

Yiguandao is a fast growing religious movement and one the largest religions in Taiwan. Read a short introduction and then download (bottom of the page) the full article by Joanna Eva (PDF, 37 pages). english.religion.info/2024/06/09/tai… #Yiguandao #newreligiousmovements

Nouvellement publié sur le site Religioscope, le compte rendu d'un ouvrage de Thierry Zarcone sur le culte des saints et des tombeaux de ceux-ci dans le monde musulman ainsi que sur les controverses à ce sujet. religion.info/2024/06/17/isl… #islam #soufisme

Mort de Fethullah Gülen, l’influent prédicateur devenu la bête noire d’Erdogan courrierinternational.com/article/turqui… via Courrier inter #Gülen

Gabriele Wittek, founder of Universal Life, dies at 91 . Among several Christian groups based on “Neuoffenbarungen” (new revelations) have been established in German-speaking Europe, only Universal Life has had any substantial international expansion. bitterwinter.org/gabriele-witte…

Free online access and PDF download until 20th December: Sanja Nilsson, "Children in New Religious Movements" (Cambridge University Press, 2024). cambridge.org/core/elements/… #NRMs #newreligiousmovements #cults #children

Another Holy See: Visiting The Center Of Caodaism in Southern Vietnam religionunplugged.com/news/2024/10/7… #caodai

«Le Réveil de Genève»: un ouvrage collectif qui fera date. L’édition française de cet important livre d’histoire est parue. lafree.info/free-college/f…