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Jewish Futures
2099: The Suicide of the Jews
Nov. 22, 2015
In the tradition of Theodore Herzl's 'Old-New-Land,' Israeli futurists Tsvi Bisk offers 'The Suicide of the Jews,' an 'imagineered history, written from 2099, looking back at the decline and fall of the Jewish state, through its own stupidity.
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Terra Nova: The Religious Quest for Tomorrow
Jan 7, 2014
The religious imagination continues to reframe our quest toward transformation and tomorrow. The World Future Society hosted a panel in Orlando, July 11-13, 2014 to consider how this imagination affects futures work.
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Which Requires more Faith, Science or Religion?
Dec 15, 2013
Futurist Thomas Frey asks, Which requires more faith, science or religion?
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Tribute: Parker Rossman, 94, worked toward solving global problems
Nov 25, 2013
Dr. Parker Rossman, WNRF's Associate for Global Education, died at age 94, spent his life working toward solving global problems through his work as an educator, a clergyman, and a futurist.
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The Future of the Religion Business
Aug 19, 2013
Tsvi Bisk offers an economic, cultural and historical retrospect on the business of organized religion and spirituality. But what of it's future? Bisk ponders how religion might move up the Maslovian scale by adapting to both Enlightenment and Experiential values.
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Religious Belief in the Year 2100
Aug 11, 2012
In a dedicated issue of the Futurist, religious analyst Gina Bellofatto charted the contours of belief on the eve of the 22nd century. Based on the religious demographics of the World Religion Database, Bellofatto forecasts that the world will be more religiously affliated by 2100 than 2012, increasing from 88.2% religious today to 92% by the 22nd century
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Religious Futurists Gathered in Toronto at WFS
Jul 29, 2012
 Would you like to meet other futurists who are helping their churches, synagogues or ministries lead from the future, not just the past? Eight hundred visionaries gathered in Toronto the summer of 2012 at the World Future Society's annual conference. During the conference, Religious Futurists met for a special networking session.
Jewish Futures
The Cosmotheistic Hypothesis of Mordechai Nessyahu
May 30, 2012
Mordechai Nessyahu viewed his life work as a product of his Jewish identity and his particular interpretation of Jewish history. He assigned a special place for the Jews and the Jewish outlook on life in the development of conscious civilizations throughout the universe. Cosmotheism posits God as the consequence of the Cosmos and not as its cause. Not in the beginning God created the Universe but in the end the Cosmos will have created God.
Muslim Futures
Zia Sardar Launches Critical Muslim
Mar 21, 2012
Zia Sardar has just announced he will step down from a 13 year run as editor of Futures journal to focus, in part, on a new project inspired by the Arab Spring: to look at Islam, the West and the wider world critically, and seek what is most suitable for all in contemporary times.
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The Future(s) & Religion(s)
Feb 5, 2012
John Sweeney, who teaches at the University of Hawaii, shares how religion is a singular/plural construct, whose tension resembles the same experiential one finds between the present and the future(s).
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Lynch offers Religion Methods Website
Dec 5, 2011
University of Kent's Professor Gordon Lynch has launched a comprehensive web site focused on "Research Methods for the Study of Religion". Designed to help graduate students write research proposals, this site offers an overview of the field of Religious Studies
and appropriate methods to conduct empirical research.
Esoteric Futures
Markley to Launch Ashram in Texas
Oct 5, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD, long-time futurist and professor emeritus of Human Sciences and Studies of the Future, announced today he has recently moved to the city of Pflugerville, just north of Austin, where he will co-found the White Lotus Ashram with inspirational author, Delia Trujillo as a sacred space for reflection, discernment and renewal.
Jewish Futures
Moshe Dror -- In rememberance
May 2, 2011
 Dr. Rabbi Moshe Dror (1934-2011), author, educator, mystic and director of Jewish Futures Network passed away in Israel, on Friday, April 29, 2011. Moshe died in surgery, after being hospitalized earlier in the month due to a stroke. Simcha, his wife, reports that the funeral for Moshe was held on Monday, May 2nd, in Yeroham, Israel.
Moshe Dror is best known in the futures studies community as co-author of Futurizing the Jews (Praeger, 2003). For over two decades he shared his vision of a "new exodus" and how a new generation of "cyber rabbis" could shape an open spirituality. Most recently he served as the chair of the World Network of Religious Futurists after the passing of Dr. Richard Kirby (d. 2009). MORE...
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