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 Religious segregation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Religious segregation involves the separation of people on the basis of religion.
Religious segregation occurs in the Muslim world, where some nations deny non-Muslims, including Jews and Christians, some of the civil rights and voting privileges they grant to Muslims.
Saudi Arabia in particular is notorious for very stringent religious laws banning the practice of non-Muslim religions, even prescribing imprisonment and the death penalty for attempting to convert Muslims to other religions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religious_segregation   (328 words)

  
 Ethnic Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland
One is the minority percentage-share of the population of the town as a whole, and, since this definition of zero segregation implies an even distribution of the minority percentage across all subareas in the city, it involves a conceptualisation of segregation as unevenness.
Similarly, the proliferation of these segregated neighbourhoods means that both Catholic and Protestant isolation indices are uniformly high, regardless of P. The only index affected by P, therefore, is the standardised replacement index, for it is almost as high as D in the two towns with almost equal numbers of Catholics and Protestants.
The contrast is even greater with respect to towns with low levels of segregation, for 26 towns, with 30% of the urban population, have low levels on the unevenness dimension, whereas only six towns, with a mere 4% of the urban population, have low levels in terms of dominance.
www.ccruni.gov.uk /research/csc/apartni.htm   (15136 words)

  
 CAIN: CSC: Report: Ethnic Residential Segregation in Belfast
This issue of setting segregation research in its broader context has also been addressed by the geographers themselves in the attempt to provide a rationale for their work, and it is with their own observations that we begin the following section on the justification for segregation analysis.
This reference to the simultaneous functioning of residential segregation as both cause and consequence of violence is a neat summary of the arguments of Jones, Boal et al.
Residential segregation was simply one of the many aspects of life which he examined for evidence of segregation, along with church, school, workplace, recreation and marriage.
cain.ulst.ac.uk /csc/reports/apartbel.htm   (8620 words)

  
 Answers to Arguments for Faith-based Schools
Religious Education and worship in Church and other religious schools are not generally as broad-based and multi-faith as in community schools.
Religious schools choose their pupils, rather than the other way round, and a proliferation of religious schools will decrease choice for the majority of parents, unless they are prepared to join, or pretend to join, a religion.
Religious schools tend to have a religious ethos, and their teachers do often have an enviable confidence in their moral values and invaluable moral support from parents.
www.angelfire.com /nb/lt/docs/answers.htm#6   (1963 words)

  
 Ethnic Residential Segregation in Belfast
Therefore, an assimilation-based interpretation of segregation in the province would be misleading, and a justification of its analysis in those terms would be inappropriate.
Residential segregation in Belfast is not a new phenomenon, but, as has been shown, it has been in existence since the birth of the city.
We can also observe that the mechanism of segregation has remained unchanged to the present day: members of the minority in a district are intimidated from their homes, or leave because they feel insecure.
www.ccruni.gov.uk /research/csc/apartbel.htm   (8597 words)

  
 PSU College of Education Segregation
Blacks who are enrolled in Catholic schools attend schools that are, on average, 31% white; fls in non-Catholic religious schools attend schools that average 35% white; and fls in secular private schools attend schools that average 41% white.
White students are most isolated in religious private schools, particularly in non-Catholic religious schools, where the average white student attends a school that is 90% white and 69% of white students attend schools that are 90-100% white.
The higher segregation among religious schools is due in part to residential characteristics, according to the researchers.
www.ed.psu.edu /news/privatesegregation.asp   (832 words)

  
 Religious Liberty: an Introduction to the Issues
Religious tolerance, religious liberty, and religious diversity are interdependent.
Religious displays on public land, while deemed legal under certain circumstances, lead to the impression that the government endorses the religions featured in a display.
When religious organizations become involved in elections, rather than focusing on stating their beliefs about the issues, they are in danger of losing their moral authority, as well as alienating their members.
www.iwgonline.org /liberty   (892 words)

  
 wongaBlog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Religious instruction is here defined as the teaching of religious beliefs as true, with the intention that children come to believe them as true.
A well-crafted religious education framework should allow no reason for pupils to be excluded, and I consider it of great importance that women in Muslim communities are at least exposed to the viewpoint that they are being treated badly.
Some claim that this kind of religious segregation happens anyway, and I’m sure there are places in which it does, but the role of education should not be to add to the problem.
wongablog.co.uk /tag/humanism   (5364 words)

  
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Within southern culture existed strata of white and fl religious experience seen rarely in the institutional churches (the reigning triumvirate of Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian) but evident in the interstices of community life, strata that mixed in imperceptibly with the topsoil of religious segregation.
While religious institutions were resistant to change, many religious folk devoted themselves to a racial revolution precisely because they perceived God as the author of it.
Religious institutions and practices in the nineteenth and twentieth-century South reflected and reinforced the racism of the region’s social life—religion in cultural captivity, or a "culture-religion." So goes the dominant undertanding of evangelicalism in the South.
web.uccs.edu /pharvey/article.htm   (8773 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Opinion - Letters - Schools should be about learning and integration not religious segregation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Religious prejudices and conflicts of interest have always played a large part in the world's problems.
Surely, the prime purpose of education is for the benefit of pupils receiving conformity of quality education and a balance of standards.
If there is to be improvement in relations across all of the communities, then religious segregation is not the answer.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /letters.cfm?id=154352006   (447 words)

  
 Review: Freedom's Coming
Unable to overturn this political reality, fl evangelicals sought solace in the many enduring religious institutions they had created in the immediate postbellum era and in hesitant interrogations of their would-be Christian brothers in the white evangelical community.
The collapse of Biblical defenses of segregation in the face of the “moral force of the civil rights movement” (221) was not altogether surprising.
The institutional growth of African-American denominations, the religious justification of white supremacy, fl folk theology, the emergence of the Holiness-Pentecostal movement, fundamentalism, the ecumenical social gospel movement, and, of course, civil rights are just some of the many themes that Harvey explores.
jsr.fsu.edu /Volume8/Whitley.htm   (1590 words)

  
 Racial segregation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During World War II, people of Japanese, Italian, and German descent (whether citizens or not) were placed in internment camps, on the basis of their ethnicity.
According to the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, the actual desegregation of U.S. public schools peaked in 1988; since that time the schools have, in fact, become more segregated.
Laws enforcing segregation had been around before 1965, although many institutions simply ignored them.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Racial_segregation   (3618 words)

  
 Sound Politics: Shari'a Swimtime
But if there's ever a reason for taxpayer dollars to be used to support an immigrant's culture, it should be to support them in learning to shed whatever aspects of their culture are incompatible with American culture.
Why the city of Seattle is deliberately supporting religious discrimination is beyond me. This slippery slope down the path of dhimmitude must be stopped.
Bigotry is bigotry -and Seattle is promoting and upholding religious bigotry for one group when they would never tolerate it, much less allow them exclusive use of their pool, to any other group.
www.soundpolitics.com /archives/004929.html   (7286 words)

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