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A non-profit service providing daily news from around the world on a diverse range of religious topics. The organization focuses on religious freedom, church and state issues, governmental legislation as it relates to religious organizations, and up-and-coming religious movements.
A coalition of international experts that was formed in 1998 to monitor and promote freedom of religion or belief on a worldwide basis. The site includes an summary analysis of each country's religious makeup and mechanisms in place to protect religious freedoms, as well as documents on the state of religion around the world.
Hosted by the University of Virginia, this site provides statistics on the religious composition and history of most nations.
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor issues an annual report that includes individual country chapters on the status of religious freedom worldwide.
This photo essay by Alexander Cohn illustrates Berger's commentary on the religiously diverse nature of the United States, which can be seen 16th Street in Washington DC.
A transcript of a Pew Forum roundtable discussion with Mark Noll, Michael Nazir-Ali, and Walter Russell Mead in which they discuss the tremendous growth taking place in the developing world, especially the Pentecostal movement in Africa and Asia.
In this article by Peter Berger, published in The National Interest in June 2005, he expands his thoughts beyond some of the ideas included in the broadcast. He compares trends in religiosity and secularism in Europe and the United States.
An Italian-language site that provides a comprehensive breakdown of Italy's religious denominational composition.
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Berger is Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University, and author of many books including Many Globalizations.
Moss Kanter is Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She's the author of World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy.
