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...year passed before they realized what a phenomenon this was becoming. "We were on tour, doing the slide show, and men and women would come up to Al after," Tipper says. "Silently weeping." The weather started getting unmistakably weird, and Gore kept working on the slides, making the show more powerful. Producer Laurie David and director Davis Guggenheim saw it and asked him to turn it into a film. Gore didn't think it would work as a movie. It has now grossed $50 million globally and sold more than 1.5 million DVD copies, and its viral effect continues...
...field differ widely in their worldviews, dialogue has been extremely fruitful. Drs. Scott Atran, Harvey Whitehouse, Justin Barrett, and Pascal Boyer are just a few notable scholars in the field whose works provide a good introduction this discipline which, on scientific grounds, takes seriously and has respect for the phenomenon of religious belief...
...Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an expert in Miami's religious history, doubts, as do several other scholars, that de Jesus' renown will extend much beyond the Latino community unless he preaches more regularly in English or finds someone to do it for him. But then again, these days a phenomenon does not need to break out of the Latino world to be a force in the U.S. "The question people ask about new religions," he says, is 'is this just a silly group or is this a group we should be scared...
...Turkish democracy has always been a complicated and fragile phenomenon. On the one hand, the country's secular traditions date back to founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who mandated in 1923 a strict divide between mosque and state. (He banned the fez, and modeled his constitution on the Swiss Civil Code.) The secular middle class that grew out of that tradition, filling the ranks of the bureaucracy and profiting from its largesse, has dominated Turkey's political and economic landscape for most of the last century. The Turkish army has served as a guarantor of this successful arrangement. The self-appointed...
...tweed is coming off. Increasingly, America’s conservative youth are shedding their stiff reputations for a new sort of rabble-rousing. Particularly, the image of social conservatism is shifting. The best example of this phenomenon is, not surprisingly, in the area of sexual politics. The success of the socially liberal agenda, in the form of increased openness about sexual matters, has caused the tables of tradition to turn...