1. An anti-clerical policy of Socialism
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1903
   According to Luxemburg, "the incessant guerrilla warfare waged for the last ten years against the priests is for French middle-class Republicans one of the best ways of turning away the attention of the working-class from social questions, and of weakening the class struggle."
2. Bowling Alone
   The Collapse and Revival of American Community
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
3. Bussy-Saint-Georges, the town with built-in religious harmony
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Planners hope construction of a multi-faith district will bring together the citizens of a new town near Paris.
4. Canadian Council of Christian Charities
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1977
   
6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1978
   
7. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
   
8. Chasing a Mirage
   The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2008
   According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
9. The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
10. Christian Reformed Church in North America
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
11. Citizens for Public Justice
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
12. The Communistic Societies of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
13. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
    
14. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
15. Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
16. Connexions Library: Religion Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
17. Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1844
    The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
    Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
    The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
    Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses
18. Easily Led
    A History of Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
19. The Empire God Built
    Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
20. Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    The sacred and profane continue to interface, conflict, and intermingle in novel ways. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society provides a guide map for these developments. From succinct, brief notes to essay-length entries, this encyclopedia covers world religious leaders and scholars — past and present — in the United States and the world. An essential reference for the study of the anthropology, psychology, politics, or sociology of religion.
21. Encyclopedia of Religion and Society (online version)
    Resource Type: Website
    
22. Foundations of Christianity
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1953
    I have proceeded to describe the roots of primitive Christianity without intending either to extol or stigmatize it, but merely to understand it.
    
23. 1491
    New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
24. Free speech for me - you shut up
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
    
25. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
26. From Fatwa to Jihad
    The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Tells the story both of the Rushdie affair and of its transformative impact on cultural and political landscape of the West. The book explores the issues that the Rushide affair raised. in particular the questions of muliculturalism, radical Islam and free speech, and shows how in responding to these issues Western liberals have betrayed the fundamental beliefs of liberalism.
27. The Great Class War
    1914-1918
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    In this critical, revisionist account, historian Jacques Pauwels shows how the First World War was rooted in class strife that begin with the French Revolution in 1789 and continued long past the war itself. As Pauwels sees it, war seemed to offer major benefits to the European upper classes of the early twentieth century, who felt threatened by the seemingly irresistible process of democratization or, as they saw it, the "rise of the masses." War was expected to serve as an antidote to social revolution, causing workers to abandon socialism's focus on overthrowing the established order via internaitonal worker solidarity in favour of nationalism and militarism.
28. Hekmat, Mansoor - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Mansoor Hekmat (1951-2002).
29. Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
30. IFJ Backs Indian Calls for "Peace and Tolerance" in Media Reports of Religious Dispute
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for journalists to play their part in keeping the peace in India where there are fears of community violence in a long-running religious dispute.
31. Karl Marx and the Iroquois
    An essay on Marx's Ethnological Notebooks
    Resource Type: Article
    Franklin Rosemont delves into Marx's Ethnological Notebooks and examines their significance and relevance towards today's communist movement.
32. Learning to Love Patriarchy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    A Canadian Catholic school teacher's struggle with the patriarchal values of the Catholic Church and their instruction to teachers to impress upon their female students the "value of motherhood".
33. Liberation Theologies - Online Library and Resources
    Resource Type: Website
    Liberation theology in Latin America has inspired forms of liberation theology around the world, as well as liberation psychology and liberation ecology. This site features a wide selection of articles and books on various aspects of liberation theologies.
    
34. Limits on Liberty
    The Experience of Mennonite, Hutterite and Doukhobor Communities in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    In this book, Janzen examines the beliefs and way of life of the Mennonite, Hutterite and Doukhobor Communities in Canada.
35. Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect on 1 January.
36. Malik, Kenan
    Resource Type: Website
    Website and blog of Kenan Malik, featuring articles on race, identity, multiculturalism, diversity, and censorship.
37. Married to Another Man
    Israel's Dilemma in Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Karmi argues that Israel has never been able to solve the original and unresolved Zionist quandary of how to create and maintain a Jewish state in a land inhabited by another people. She maintains that the problem is unsoluble and that the only solution is a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians are equal.
38. A Marxist History of the World part 37: The Counter-Reformation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Neil Faulkner looks at how the Reformation was followed by a counter-revolutionary response which involved a dogmatic reassertion of Catholic orthodoxy: the Counter-Reformation.
39. A Marxist History of the World part 39: The Thirty Years War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Between 1618 and 1648 Germany was wrecked by insecurity, depopulation, disruption to trade, the destruction of property, and military plundering. Neil Faulkner looks at The Thirty Years War.
40. The Mass Psychology of Fascism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or political group. He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of human beings whose needs and impulses have been suppressed.
41. More than 100 rights organisations urge UN to oppose defamation of religions
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    More than 100 rights organisations worldwide have banded together to urge member states at the United Nations Human Rights Council session this month to renegotiate defamation of religions resolutions that make criticising religion a crime.
42. Murfreesboro vs. Islamophobia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    When the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee sought a permit to build an expanded Islamic Center, local bigots saw an opportunity to exploit the same "moral panic," invented by the Tea Party, the Christian Right and much of the corporate media, that would also emerge in New York around the so-called "Ground Zero mosque."
43. Muslim Canadian Congress
    Resource Type: Website
    A grassroots organization that provides a voice to Muslims who are not represented by existing organizations; organizations that are either sectarian or ethnocentric, largely authoritarian, and influenced by a fear of modernity and an aversion to joy.
44. Maryam Namazie
    Resource Type: Website
    Maryam Namazie is a rights activist, and commentator and broadcaster on Iran, rights, cultural relativism, secularism, religion, political Islam and other related topics.
45. On the Second Coming of Religion
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The question we should ask is not just: ‘What is it about religion that makes people believe or behave in certain ways?’ It is also: ‘What is it about contemporary societies that draws many people, both religious and non-religious, towards nihilistic, narcissistic, anti-modern forms of belief?’
46. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
    We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
    This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
    Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
    Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
    Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
47. A Paradise Built in Hell
    The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
48. The Perils of Faith-Based Multiculturalism
    The Case of Shari'a in Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Conservative religious leaders have become more vocal and demanding, and governments are giving in to their demands without much regard for the serious consequences for democracy and citizens’ rights.
49. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2008
    
50. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2008
    
51. The Realization and Suppression of Religion
    Resource Type: Article
    It is not enough to explain religion by its social role or historical development. The content that is expressed in religious forms must be discovered. Because revolutionaries haven't really come to terms with religion, it continually returns to haunt them.
52. Religions: The Tragedy of Mankind
    Resource Type: Website
    For all who would struggle against the tragedy of religion.
53. Religious leaders urged to sign Declaration on Freedom of Expression
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    As part a campaign called "Freedom of expression has no religion," Reporters Without Borders is calling on leaders of all religions in France to sign its Declaration on Freedom of Expression.
54. Religous Freedom and Authoritarian Atheists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Many contemporary atheists adopt an unpleasantly authoritarian stance. Many now demand, in the name of ‘reason’ or ‘science’, state restrictions or bans on views that might cause ‘harm’. It is a strange attitude for those who supposedly believe in free speech and free thought.
55. The return of religion - and other myths
    Talk at a conference on 'Post-secularism', Utrecht, Netherlands, 11 January 2009
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Politics has became less about competing visions of the kinds of society people than a debate about how best to manage the existing political system. As the meaning of politics has become squeezed, so people have begun to view themselves and their social affiliations in a different way. Social solidarity has become increasingly defined not in political terms - as collective action in pursuit of certain political ideals – but in terms of ethnicity or culture. The politics or ideology, in other words, gave way to the politics of identity. It’s not faith, but identity, that has created the faultlines of contemporary conflicts.
56. The St. Petersburg Declaration
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    We are secular Muslims, and secular persons of Muslim societies. We are believers, doubters, and unbelievers, brought together by a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free and the unfree.
57. Secularist Center for Inquiry Delivers Statement to UN Opposing "Defamation of Religions" Resolution
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The Center for Inquiry (CFI), a secularist think tank and NGO has delivered a statement strongly opposing the proposed "Combating the Defamation of Religions" resolution backed by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
58. The Social Passion
    Religion and Social Reform in Canada 1914-28
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    An account of the movement within Canadian protestantism which sought to revive the neglected social dimensions of Christianity and to involve the church in social action.
59. Socialism and The Churches
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1905
    Social-Democracy in no way fights against religious beliefs. On the contrary, it demands complete freedom of conscience for every individual and the widest possible toleration for every faith and every opinion. But, from the moment when the priests use the pulpit as a means of political struggle against the working classes, the workers must fight against the enemies of their rights and their liberation. For he who defends the exploiters and who helps to prolong this present regime of misery, he is the mortal enemy of the proletariat, whether he be in a cassock or in the uniform of the police.
60. Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowd
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    An overview of how you can use SOURCES to amplify your message.
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, writers, producers and researchers with the sources they need for their work. Being included in SOURCES positions you as a media source and puts you in line to receive more media calls and more media coverage.
61. Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
    Original title: History of American Socialisms
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
    Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
62. 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
63. Ukip: the battle for Britain
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A exposé on Ukip, which wonders: is it a lunatic fringe or a sign of things to come?
64. The Waterloo Mennonites
    A Community in paradox
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Fretz discussed about the history and life of the Mennonites as a community. He concludes that Mennonites have contributed much in community leadership, education, health professions, business and political office once they overcome prior distrust of the world.
65. Why is Religion Natural?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2003
    Is religious belief a mere leap into irrationality as many skeptics assume? Psychology suggests that there may be more to belief than the suspension of reason.
66. A year after Charlie, RSF warns against "religious correctness"
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    On the eve of the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy in Paris and amid controversy about the satirical weekly's latest cover, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) cautions against the insidious imposition of a "religious correctness"

Experts on Religion & Society in the Sources Directory

1. Canadian Encyclopedia
2. UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
3. Women Living Under Muslim Law