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http://www.shariati.com/
This was once my favourite website, Dr Ali Shariati was an Iranian
intellectual and sociologist, martyred by SAVAK. His own writings
seem very fine, and the forum was the liveliest one on the web,
containing maybe the full range of (Iranian) Islam, from the most
extreme fundamentalists to very liberal guys living (in exile)
in the west. They seem to tolerate each other somehow and tried
to sort it all out. Sadly, this is no longer true - the extremes
of thought got too much for the site management !
http://www.shambhalasun.com/
is a Buddhist magazine from Canada (!) which looks very good
- only a short bit of each current issue, but one back issue is
given in full, e.g.
http://www.shambhalasun.com/Archives/Features/2001/Jan01/rowroshi.htm
is excellent about a japanese Zen Roshi visiting a death-row prison
in the states
http://www.tarab-institute.org/gb/content.htm
is the site for Tarab Tulku, who is one of the main Tibetan Buddhist
teachers living in Europe
www.newgenevacenter.org
is a christian site which seems to be very sincere, clear and
impartial !! There are many things of interest there, and part
of it is developing into quite a massive encyclopaedia, though
navigation is not as you'd expect. The .org part of the site is
the New Geneva church-oriented stuff, but if you follow 'Social
Studies Curriculum' then 'Western Social History' then you get
a lot more of the main guys studies of different schools of thought,
and a "post-modern" re-evaluation of history. The whole
thing is a major effort with a very positive approach.
http://ship-of-fools.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/W000439/UBB/ultimatebb.cgi
is a Christian bulletin board which looks very good - open, fun
and liberal
The opposite of this is http://watch.pair.com/un.html
which is the ultimate in the opposite type of Christian site,
and anyone with any new ideas since about 100 AD are doomed to
eternal damnation. Conversely it is quite a good survey of heresies
and recent conspiracy theories. Fortunately, I and my friends
don't seem to be in it (yet)
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