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Subject: [BPR] - Re article - Report questions ties between state and Church of England
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Hosea")
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 10:27:13 +0100

Dear BPR,

I though you may like to know the background (Multifaith with Islamic
leadings) for the authors of this report, at the University of Derby. (The
interim report was publised under the banner of the Mutifaith.net - THE
INTER FAITH NETWORK FOR THE UK - in March of this year)

Commissioned my the Home Secretary Jack Straw, in the spring of 1999, the
fianl report is not due until Autumn of this year.

Richard Lockwood - Manchester, England

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The Project Staff

The following staff of the University of Derby are contracted to the project
in various capacities.
The Project Director is Professor Paul Weller
Professor Marie Parker-Jenkins is the Associate Project Director.
Dr. Kingsley Purdam is the Project Research Officer
Dr. Alice Feldman is the Project Research Assistant.
Anna Doswell is a Project Team member
Ahmed Andrews is a Project Team member.
Lynne Kinnerley is the Project Secretary.
The Project Supervisory Group
This group is composed of a wider team of University of Derby staff, who
contribute to the quality control of the Project. These staff are members of
the Religious Resource and Research Centre and the Centre for Social
Research, acting in an unpaid advisory capacity. Together with Professor
Weller, Professor Parker-Jenkins, Anna Doswell and Ahmed Andrews, they will
constitute a Project Supervisory Group meet monthly with the research team
during the project.

Staff Details

Professor Paul Weller
is responsible for overall project management, including liaison with the
Home Office. In substantive terms, at the commencement of the project, he is
sharing particularly in the literature review on theoretical frameworks for
approaching religious discrimination and international comparisons.
is Head of the Division of Social Science and is Professor in
Inter-Religious Relations.
is editor of Religions in the UK: A Multi-Faith Directory (University of
Derby, Derby, 1997) and Project Director of MultiFaithNet.
has co-directed the Religions and Statistics Research Project, and was a
member of the Office for the National Statistics' Religious Affiliation
Sub-Group of the Census Content Working Group.
His second research degree was on "The Salman Rushdie Controversy, Religious
Plurality and Established Religion in England."
Prior to taking up an academic post at Derby in 1990, he worked as Resources
Officer for the Inter Faith Network for the United Kingdom. Before this, he
had been Community Relations Officer for the Christian Churches of Greater
Manchester, with responsibilities for race and inter-faith relations.
has written on issues of religious discrimination, and has been engaged by
the Cabinet Office, the Department for Education and Employment, and the
Inland Revenue, to offer consultancy training on issues of religion and
equal opportunities.

Professor Marie Parker-Jenkins
Professor Marie Parker-Jenkins is the Associate Project Director.
Professor Parker-Jenkins is Research Professor in Education and is Director
of the Research Unit for Education and Professional Practic.
She acts as an associate director of the project and, when necessary, as an
alternate for Dr. Weller. In substantive terms, at the commencement of the
project she is sharing particularly in the literature review.
Recently funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the Department for Education and
Employment, Professor Parker-Jenkins has conducted inquiries into the
educational and employment opportunities for, and difficulties faced by,
young Muslim women.
She has also written extensively on Muslim communities in Britain and
elsewhere with a focus on employment, gender and discrimination. This
research, spanning over a decade, has raised issues of equity, prejudice and
good practice within schools and the public sector.

Professor Parker-Jenkins has given keynote addresses and conference papers
around the world on this research area and her book Children of Islam (1995)
was the first publication of its kind (ie written by a non-Muslim aimed
primarily at a non-Muslim audience) which explores the educational needs of
Muslim children and the way in which their needs can be accommodated
sensitively and sensibly.
Moving on from this, she has looked particularly at religious discrimination
in employment and the implications for the labour market, which is the basis
for her forthcoming book, Career, Culture and Closing Doors (1999).

Dr. Kingsley Purdam is the Project Research Officer
Dr. Kingsley Purdam has responsibility for the main operational conduct of
the project; contributing to the literature review; leading the mapping
exercise; consulting with relevant agencies and religious organisations;
drafting the interim and final project reports; and supervising the work of
the Project Research Assistant and the Project Secretary.
He has a multi-disciplinary training in political science, comparative
religion and research methods, having previously been a lecturer in
multiculturalism and race relations in the Department of Philosophy and
Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University and an Honorary Research
Fellow in the International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research at the
Universities of Manchester and Keele.
He has held MA and PhD studentships from the Economic and Social Research
Council, and his doctoral thesis was on "The Impacts of Democracy on
Identity: The Identities of Muslim Local Councillors in Britain." This was
concerned with the nature of political identities in liberal democracies and
involved mapping the dynamics of community construction.

Dr. Alice Feldman is the Project Research Assistant.
Dr. Alice Feldman has responsibility for designing and conducting the local
empirical field research; recruitment and supervision of sessional
researchers (used, as appropriate, for the arrangement and conduct of local
biographical research); and writing up of the results of the field research.
She has multi-disciplinary training in culture, communication and politics.
She has lectured on social movements and politics, cultural studies, race
and ethnic relations, and communication studies courses recently as an
honorary research fellow in the University of Manchester Sociology
Department, a visiting lecturer in Politics at the University of
Queen's-Belfast, and as a postgraduate lecturer at Arizona State University.
She holds an MA in Culture and Communication and a PhD in Justice Studies,
both from Arizona State University. Fellowships from the National Science
Foundation and the Institute of World Politics (both US-based) have
supported the completion of her PhD thesis entitled 'Othering Knowledge and
Unknowing Law: Colonial Legacies, Indigenous Pedagogies, and Social
Transformation' which examined a variety of legal and political contexts in
which indigenous peoples are seeking recognition of and protection for their
traditional cultures and religions, and self-determination.

Lynne Kinnerley is the Project Secretary.
Lynne Kinnerley has nine years experience of administrative work, including
for Capital Careers in Kensington and Chelsea and for the Hammersmith and
Fulham Citizens Advice Bureau, as well as working as a Press Assistant for
the Royal Opera House. In addition, she worked (1985-86) as a Research
Assistant for the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames Museum on a project
to map "Religions in the Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames". Lynne is also a
writer.
She will have responsibility is for the overall secretarial organisation of
the project, including: arrangement of project meetings; initial response to
telephone contacts with the project; setting up and maintenance of a project
filing system; setting up and maintenance of a project database; word
processing and layout of project reports

Anna Doswell is a project team member.
Anna Doswell is Lecturer in Law in the School of Humanities, Languages and
Law.
In substantive terms, at the commencement of the project she is sharing in
the literature review, with special reference to the relevant legal
literature and legal options forv responding to religious discrimination.
She has a specialist interest in civil liberties and European and
international Human Rights Law and contributes legal knowledge and
perspectives to the project. She holds an LL.M degree in Public
International Law and Human Rights and has developed a particular interest
in the relationship between freedom of religion and human rights law.
The issue of religious freedom in the domestic and international contexts
now features in most of her work.
She is currently engaged in research on the likely response of the judiciary
to the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights, in
particular, article 9, into domestic law.

Ahmed Andrews is a project team member.
Ahmed Andrews is Lecturer in Religious Studies and Sociology.
In substantive terms, he is contributing to the literature review of the
project with particular reference to Scotland.
He has published on various Muslim groups in Britain and is a Co-Director of
the Religious Resource and Research Centre's Religions and Statistics
Research Project.
He has undertaken work for Age Concern on the needs of Work Support Group)
and on monitoring of community service orders for fine defaulters within the
Scottish legal system.

Details of Supervisory Staff

Professor John Hinnells
Professor John Hinnells is the Director of the Religious Resource and
Research Centre and Research Professor in Comparative Religion.
He is a specialist on the oldest of Britain's South Asian communities, the
Parsis, and has written a number of publications on the nature and impact of
religious discrimination on this religious group in six Western countries.
Professor Ursula Sharma
Professor Ursula Sharma is Research Professor in Sociology and Director of
the Centre for Social Research.
She has worked on Hinduism in India and the West, and issues surrounding
ethnicity, gender and caste.
Karen Rowlingson
Karen Rowlingson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and has researched into
aspects of disadvantage and exclusion.
She was previously employed by the Policy Studies Institute. Her research
has recently been funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Dr. Martin O'Brien
Dr. Martin O'Brien is University Reader in Sociology. He has previously
worked at the Open University and the University of Surrey, the latter being
renowned for its expertise in research methodology.
He has extensive experience in social policy research, specifically in the
areas of health and community services.
He is a qualitative methodologist and was responsible for professional
training in focus group research at Surrey.

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ifaithnet.org/projects/religdiscrim/index.html

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Subject: [BPR] - NASA Science News for June 6, 2000
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:55:05 -0400

NASA Science News for June 6, 2000

During the next week thousands of meteors will streak through
the sky, but don't expect to see many. They are the Arietids and
zeta Perseids -- the most intense daytime meteor showers of the
year. The best way for many meteor enthusiasts to enjoy the show
is by listening to meteor echoes on a common FM or ham radio.

FULL STORY at

http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast06jun_1m.htm?list

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Subject: [BPR] - Turkey earthquake (6/6/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:59:46 -0400

Magnitude 6.1 earthquake near TURKEY
40.62N, 32.97E depth 33.0km Tue Jun 6 02:41:53 2000 GMT

An earthquake has occurred. Following is information provided
by the National Earthquake Information Service of the USGS.
This information is preliminary and subject to correction.

Time: GMT Tue Jun 6 02:41:53 2000
(EDT Mon Jun 5 22:41:53 2000)
(PDT Mon Jun 5 19:41:53 2000)

Magnitude: 6.1, determined using its surface wave characteristics
Epicenter: 40.62N, 32.97E (TURKEY)
Precision: A, where A is fine and D is coarse.
Depth of focus: 33.0km below sea level at the epicenter.

Note that the depth of focus is given as 33.0km, indicating
that the depth was known to be shallow but could not be determined
precisely.

For a map showing this event, please consult the web page
<http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/000606024153.HTML>

Further info can be obtained from the USGS National Earthquake
Information Center at <http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/>
or the USGS home page at <http://www.usgs.gov/>

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Subject: [BPR] - Man Admits Sending Ghosts to Attack Girls
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 09:13:29 -0400

Monday June 5 12:11 PM ET

Man Admits Sending Ghosts to Attack Girls

NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) - A businessman has confessed to sending
ghosts to attack schoolgirls in eastern Kenya, a newspaper reported on
Monday.

The unnamed businessman was arrested over the weekend after the pupils of
Itokela Girls Secondary School marched to the district commissioner's office
to protest against an invasion of ghosts at the school, the East African
Standard said.

The girls said the man had hired the ghosts to torment them after his
daughter left the school.

The man apparently agreed to meet the cost of exorcising the spirits -- who
seem to delight in pushing the girls to the floor -- and hired a ghost buster
named Ntingili who ``retrieved shells and other witchcraft paraphernalia'' from
the school grounds.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000605/od/kenya_ghosts_1.html

Link via:
http://www.newsviewtoday.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Swedes to Go on Line to Report Crime
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 09:14:47 -0400

Monday June 5 12:11 PM ET

Swedes to Go on Line to Report Crime

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Online Swedes will soon be able to report thefts
and complain about noisy neighbors via the Internet.

Starting next year citizens in Stockholm will no longer need to go to their
local police station to report minor crimes, police development officer Nils
Svartz said.

Swedes, already among the world's most computer-literate people, are
preparing for the next stage in information technology -- Internet access via
mobile phones.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000605/od/sweden_internet_1.html

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http://www.newsviewtoday.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Preaching can lead to hate crimes
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:16:18 -0500

C U R R E N T N E W S S U M M A R Y
by the Editors of ReligionToday

June 6, 2000

Stung by assertions that preaching can lead to hate crimes, some
of the country's most prominent Christian leaders are reasserting
the constitutional right to evangelize. Eighty-four scholars,
theologians, and church leaders last week endorsed a document
called The Chicago Declaration on Religious Freedom: Sharing
Jesus Christ in a Pluralistic Society. They include Charles
Colson of Prison Fellowship, theologians Carl F. H. Henry, J.I.
Packer, R.C. Sproul, and Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy
Graham.
...The leaders rejected the notion that evangelism undermines "a
peaceful, pluralistic society and may lead to intolerance,
bigotry, and even violence," but said that only a society that
permits free discourse "can safeguard the true liberty, freedom,
and human dignity we all pursue."
...The declaration also "acknowledges with shame that some
Christian churches have failed to exercise proper respect for the
rights and dignity of others," and rejects the use of "coercive
techniques, dishonest appeals, or any form of deception."
...Southern Baptists last year announced a plan to evangelize
Chicago this summer. An interfaith coalition asked the
denomination to reconsider the campaign, fearing that it might
lead to violence against Jews, Hindus, and Muslims.
...That was "the straw that broke the camel's back," Richard
Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious
Liberty Commission, told the Dallas Morning News. Saying that
evangelism leads to hate crimes is nonsense, he said. "The
declaration puts our critics on notice that they're going to have
to defend what appears to a lot of Americans to be intolerance."

It's getting even noisier in Oslo, Norway. Pentecostals are
broadcasting their message from rooftops, the third group to join
a loud battle for the city's attention, news reports said. Since
last week, Pentecostals have been broadcasting: "Jesus lives. He
is the way, the truth, and the light."
...The battle of words (see link #1 below) started in April when
a neighborhood council gave the World Islamic Mission a permit to
sound the call to prayers every Friday. Loudspeakers outside 18
mosques broadcast calls of Allahu akbar (God is great) to the
capital city's 36,000 Muslims. The Norwegian Heathen Society, an
atheist group, received permission to advertise its gatherings by
broadcasting, "God does not exist. The flames of hell have gone
out."
...The competing calls provoked Christians in Norway, where about
90 percent of the 4.5 million people belong to the Lutheran
Church. About 150 demonstrators marched in Oslo chanting "Jesus
is great" and carrying signs reading: "Is Oslo going to be an
Islamic city? No!"

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Subject: [BPR] - Misc health news
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 18:56:26 -0400

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000606/sc/cancer_brain_dc_1.html

Tuesday June 6 3:05 PM ET
Researchers Sneak Gene Therapy Into Brain
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Using protective balls of fat and precisely targeted
antibodies, researchers said on Monday they had found a way to sneak gene
therapy into the brain in a new approach they hope could be used against a
range of diseases from Alzheimer's to brain cancer.
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http://news.excite.com/news/r/000606/09/science-health-myriad-dc
Myriad Says Discovers Gene Linked to Prostate Cancer

Updated 9:12 AM ET June 6, 2000
Current quotes (delayed 20 mins.) SGP 45 11/16 1 5/16 (2.96%)

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Myriad Genetics Inc. (MYGN.O) on Tuesday
said it had discovered a gene linked to prostate cancer and would use the
knowledge to try to develop both a test for the disease and medicines to
treat it.

Myriad said it had won a $1 million payment from drug research partner
Schering-Plough Corp. (SGP.N) for the discovery.
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http://news.excite.com/news/r/000606/13/science-health-diabetes-dc
Study: Cell Transplant May Offer Diabetes Cure

Updated 1:13 PM ET June 6, 2000
By Gene Emery

BOSTON (Reuters) - Canadian researchers have said they have developed a
cell
transplant technique that eliminates the need for insulin injections in the
treatment of diabetes.

The development is so striking that the New England Journal of Medicine
released the University of Alberta study almost two months early and put it on
its Web site, http://www.nejm.org.

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Subject: [BPR] - Volcanic activity
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 19:01:07 -0400

Increased volcanic activity since May 15, 2000:
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/current.html

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