Tag: islam
group name: speakingoffaith
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October 14, 2005 10:35 AM EDT --
Broadcast on Thursday, October 13, 2005
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September 30, 2004 12:00 AM EDT --
Broadcast on September 30, 2004
Many Americans received a violent introduction to Islam in September 2001. And yet, only one quarter of Americans told pollsters then that they considered Islam itself . . .
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February 26, 2004 12:00 AM EST --
Broadcast on February 26, 2004
In the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, scrutiny of the religion of Islam has become part and parcel of our public life. In forums of all kinds, . . .
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September 01, 2006 11:27 AM EDT --
Broadcast on August 31, 2006
Al-Qaeda appeals powerfully, if destructively, to the need of young people to be important and make a difference in the world, says our guest Eboo Patel; he believes it is . . .
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September 09, 2006 08:56 PM EDT --
Broadcast on September 7, 2006
Dramatic headlines convey a predominantly violent picture of global Islam. But, during the past five years, Muslim guests on SOF have conveyed a thoughtful, questing, . . .
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December 25, 2006 08:36 PM EST --
Broadcast on Saturday, December 23, 2006
Listen (real) The Katy Islamic Association has plans to build a mosque on 11 acres of land outside of Houston. They put a sign out . . .
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September 09, 2004 12:00 AM EDT --
September 9, 2004
The sacred story of Abraham traverses the geography of the most bitter political conflict in the modern world?beginning in what is now southern Iraq and ending in the West . . .
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September 19, 2003 12:00 AM EDT --
Every field of human endeavor has its heroes -- men and women who may be relatively unknown in the wider culture but are living legends in the world of their accomplishment. Jaroslav Pelikan is one of . . .
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March 04, 2004 12:00 AM EST --
Broadcast on March 4, 2004
The religious landscape of Iraq is complex and somewhat enigmatic to the western world. Nearly 97% of Iraq's 25 million people are Muslim, and a majority of Iraqis are Shiite . . .
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November 25, 2004 12:00 AM EST --
November 25, 2004
Armstrong has written a memoir, The Spiral Staircase, about her progression from a disillusioned and damaged young nun into, in her words, a "freelance monotheist." She's a . . .
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August 22, 2007 11:46 AM EDT --
So much of the news of recent years has a religious component, for good or ill, and often involving the young. Since I interviewed Eboo Patel, I watch this unfold with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem ringing in . . .
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November 25, 2008 05:19 PM EST --
The Sunni-Shia Divide and the Future of Islam
Sectarian violence appears as the greatest stumbling block, perhaps, to the creation of civil society in Iraq and a responsible U.S. withdrawal. In this . . .
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December 28, 2006 01:28 PM EST --
Broadcast on Thursday, December 28, 2006
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December 28, 2006
Americans are religious and non-religious, devout and irreverent. . . .
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May 16, 2008 11:09 AM EDT --
The Freelance Monotheism of Karen Armstrong
With sweeping books like A History of God and The Battle for God , Karen Armstrong is known for her singular insight into religion in our world. But . . .
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December 07, 2006 12:19 PM EST --
Broadcast on Thursday, December 7, 2006
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Is there such a thing as the Muslim world? Is the "veil" a sign of . . .
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April 20, 2007 04:37 PM EDT --
As perpetually horrified as we are of terror and violence, we are riveted by them and we let them define our take on reality. The communications miracles of the 21st century make wondrous connections possible, . . .
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February 16, 2008 09:18 PM EST --
Reflections of a British Muslim Extremist
Ed Husain has taken Great Britain by storm with his memoir, The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left . . .
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December 14, 2007 04:55 PM EST --
The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi
The 13th-century Muslim mystic and poet Rumi has long shaped Muslims around the world and has now become popular in the West. Rumi created a new language of love within . . .
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October 18, 2005 11:30 AM EDT --
August 19, 2004 Religious fundamentalism has reshaped our view of world events. In this show, host Krista Tippett explores the appeal of fundamentalism in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, as . . .
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March 07, 2008 06:19 PM EST --
A New Voice for Islam
Ingrid Mattson, the first woman and first convert to lead the Islamic Society of North America, describes her experience of Islamic spirituality, which she discovered in her . . .
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