Word: religione
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...those Palestinian women who sign up to become martyrs do so voluntarily. Some fall prey to male recruiters, who approach them on campus or through Internet chat rooms, making romantic advances that the women fall for. Many other women point to "secret reasons" that have little connection with religion and everything to do with private tragedy or shame. Some see becoming a suicide bomber as preferable to an arranged marriage, common in the Arab world. One teenager volunteered for suicide duty because her father refused to let her marry a boyfriend. As a female student from Birzeit University says...
Harvard’s Committee on the Study of Religion will lose two of its top leaders next year, when Chairman Robert A. Orsi and Director of Undergraduate Studies Thomas A. Lewis will join the faculties of Northwestern and Brown Universities, respectively...
...Diana L. Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and a Harvard Divinity School faculty member, will be the committee’s new chair. Eck previously chaired the committee from...
...Orsi, the Warren professor of the history of religion in America, has accepted a chaired position in religious studies and a joint appointment in history at Northwestern. He said he is leaving primarily because the Divinity School did not offer—or seriously consider offering—a faculty position to his wife, Christine Helmer, a senior scholar there...
...Helmer will join her husband at Northwestern as a full professor in religion with a joint appointment in German...