Got a phone call yesterday from BBC who are thinking about a piece on international religious bloggers from many faiths. They are most interested in Muslim bloggers, especially those high-profile Bahgdad related bloggers, and Christian bloggers. I wasnt able to give them many names of key bloggers outside the Christian faith. One or two came to mind but not the full sweep of Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim bloggers. Let me know if you know something that might help.
My observation is that the vast majority of religious bloggers are coming from the Christian stream. Are there any scholars out there who can speak with authority on how all the religions line up when it comes to blogging?
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Someone over here who gets a fair amount of reads is Velveteen Rabbi.
http://www.velveteenrabbiblogs.com
Links there could probably lead someone around the (progressive) Judaism blogosphere, at least.
Dana
I’ll second that emotion. Rachel @ Velveteen Rabbi seems to have connections that extend beyond Judaism.
Any idea who they are tracking from within the Christian blogosphere?
Peace,
Jamie
Dervish is a blog by a Muslim woman based in Melbourne. Her CMap shows she is very popular. Her blog offers a feminist point of view to Muslim life in the West.
I really recommend it.
http://www.maryams.net/dervish/
Youth, Culture and Religion
The Reverend Nathan Day Wilson will deliver the 2006 Rockefeller Lecture on Youth, Culture and Religion. The title of his lecture is “Caught and Taught: The Art of Generating Faith with Older Adolescents.”
“Nathan is relentlessly curious and an engaging speaker,” said Dr. Benjamin Woods, the Dottie M. Rae Chair of Classics.
Definitely start with Rachel at VelveteenRabbi and then just start reading all the people she links to and the people they link to. You won’t just find Jewish bloggers, but people from many faiths who have wonderful blogs.
Well you can hardly talk about religious blogging without also talking about NeoPagans.
If Blogshares is in any way representative
(http://blogshares.com/industries.php) then NeoPagans are at least as significant as Hindu, Buddhist and Jewish bloggers, if not more so. Man, the Goddess worship revival was virtually born on the net. I’m surprised you haven’t picked up the parallels to EC since they’re at the forefront of post-modern spirituality.
Anyway, some popular pagan bloggers are:
http://www.goddessmystic.com/index.shtml
http://thejuggler.blogspot.com/
http://www.wildhunt.org/blog.html
thanks everyone.
Lots of Buddhist bloggers on the left sidebar of my site