Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Medical aid in dying comes up for a vote in England

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  The upcoming vote on legalizing medical aid in dying in England and Wales has attracted controversy along lines that will be familiar to r...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Lysistrata in Kiryat Joel

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  Kiryas Joel is a Hasidic community in New York State, in which ancient religious traditions can come into conflict with modern customs.  ...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Pope Francis calls for a ban on surrogacy

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 The Catholic Church has long opposed in-vitro fertilization (IVF), one of the technological tools that allows surrogacy, on the grounds tha...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Surrogacy under siege in Italy

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 Opposition to surrogacy in Italy has taken aim at the babies of same sex couples. The NYT has the story: Surrogacy Emerges as the Wedge Iss...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Blasphemy in Pakistan

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 How to strengthen a ban that already allows the death penalty for repugnant speech?  The NYT has the story: Pakistan Strengthens Already Ha...
Friday, August 12, 2022

Are sociology and economics coming closer together? Philippe Steiner in Acta Oeconomica

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 Professor Philippe Steiner , of the Groupe d’Etudes des Méthodes de l’Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne, thinks that these days sociology...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Medical aid in dying in Italy--a first

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 The NYT has the story: Man Paralyzed 12 Years Ago Becomes Italy’s First Assisted Suicide   By Elisabetta Povoledo "Paralyzed 12 years ...
Sunday, June 27, 2021

Can same sex couples adopt and foster children in need? It's complicated...

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  When religion and non-discrimination contest with each other in court, the decisions sometimes rely on the details of the case: The WSJ ha...
Monday, November 4, 2019

Kidney donation in Israel

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In Israel, as in the U.S., a lot of living kidney donations to strangers come from people associated with faith based organizations.  Table...
Friday, March 15, 2019

Ongoing controversies about same sex marriage

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Relatively recent stories, about the Methodist world and the Arab world remind us that there remains considerable active repugnance to same...
Thursday, April 5, 2018

Cursing sex traffickers in Nigeria

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In some religious traditions, curses are performative , i.e. performing a curse is thought to have consequences for those cursed.  In Niger...
Friday, February 9, 2018

Altruistic kidney donation in Israel: Matnat Chaim (gift of life)

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Matnat Chaim (gift of life) is an Israeli organization, led by a rabbi, that promotes living kidney donation.  It's been quite success...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Blasphemy as a repugnant transaction in Pakistan

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The Guardian has the latest: Pakistan asks Facebook and Twitter to help identify blasphemers Companies approached in effort to locate Pak...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Matchmaking among the Haredi

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Ynet has a story:  Ultra-orthodox matchmaking: everything it's best not to know "Among the traditional Haredi public – not the...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

A plea for kidney sales in the Atlantic, from an Orthodox rabbi

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Writing in the Atlantic, kidney donor Shmuly Yanklowitz argues that it would be easier for more people to do as he did if kidney donors cou...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Scalping tickets to see the Pope

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The NY Times has the story:  After Lottery in New York to See Pope Francis, Some Winners Scalp Tickets Online "Tickets to the Centra...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Organ donation in Qatar

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Here's a story from Al Jazeera: Finding organ donors among Qatar's Muslim community The Qatari government offers a series of ince...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Expanding non-directed kidney donation: the Renewal model

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An article in the Forward talks about attempts to expand the successful organ donation program of Renewal beyond the Jewish community: Ca...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Organ donation in Turkey

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The religious debate about organ donation in Turkey may have reached a turning point. Here's a story from the Daily Sabah: Imams to l...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Fushimi Inari-taisha: a shrine to business and a pioneer in advertising

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The Inari shrine in Kyoto is devoted to a patron of business. Unlike many other shrines and temples we visited in Japan it does not suppor...