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University Park Airport Emergency Response Exercise
Commencement across Penn State: Spring 2012
Spring commencement 2012 under way
Penn State, Moroccan students problem-solve together
Finals Week Spring Semester 2012
Painting the Lines at Beaver Stadium
Did They Get It Right? - RedTails
Iconic Penn State elm taken down over spring break 2012
We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)
Disease stricken matching elm tree slated for removal
Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone
The American Council of Learned Societies has recognized four Penn Staters -- two faculty members who have received grants and two recent doctoral student graduates who will serve two-year academic fellowships -- among a total of 380 U.S.-based and international scholars honored in 2010. (more)
"Back in 1900, there were about 2 million Catholics in Africa. By 2000, there were 130 million Catholics in Africa, which, as my colleague John Allen points out, represents a growth rate over the century of 6,700 percent.... By 2025 you're probably talking about 250 million, and by 2050 it should be around 330 million. It's around about the year 2035 that there are more Catholics in Africa than in Europe, and it's about 2060 that there should be more Catholics in Asia than in Europe. Why about that point? If you rank the continents in terms of number of Catholics, Europe is fifth in place ahead of Australia, oh, and Antarctica. Last year there were more Catholic baptisms in the Phillipines than in France, Spain, Italy and Poland combined, and that is going to increase, that kind of tendency. The Catholic Church is going south, but not in the sense that some of its critics think."
-- Philip Jenkins, Edwin Erle Sparks professor of humanities in the Department of History and Religious Studies at Penn State and distinguished senior fellow of the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University, speaking on the topic of "The World's Religious Map in 2050" on Thursday, April 29, at the Penn State Forum, held at the Nittany Lion Inn, University Park, Pa. (more)
The popular idea is that brainwashing techniques can completely alter a person's opinions, while he or she is powerless to stop the conversion," he says. "But such techniques have never actually been found to exist," says Roger Finke, professor of sociology and religious studies at Penn State. (more)
