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	<title>The Boiled Down Juice &#187; religion</title>
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	<description>&#34;Folklore is the boiled-down juice of human living.&#34; ~ Zora Neale Hurston</description>
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		<title>June is Torture Awareness Month</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month religious and human rights groups across the nation are drawing attention to the immoral nature of torture and sending a message to the president that the American people do not support torture. While listening to a recent radio &#8230; <a href="http://meredith-martin.com/blog/june-is-torture-awareness-month/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This month religious and human rights groups across the nation are drawing attention to the immoral nature of torture and sending a message to the president that the American people do not support torture. </p>
<p>While listening to a recent radio segment on <a href="http://www.stateofbelief.com/site/c.ioIKLLOoGlF/b.2692693/k.D851/The_Show.htm">Air America&#8217;s State of Belief</a> (one of my new favorite radio shows), I heard about the National Religious Campaign to End Torture. This month  churches around the nation are hanging banners that announce their belief that torture is not a political issue but a moral issue. </p>
<p>For more information or to order a banner for your organization, visit their site:<br />
<a href="http://www.nrcat.org/">National Religious Campaign to End Torture.</a></p>
<p>The intersection of faith and social justice is particularly interesting on both a very personal gut level and on a folkloric one as well.<br />
I am curious&#8211;from a folklore and belief perspective, what would Don Yoder and Primiano make of this campaign and this larger intersection between belief and action toward political change? </p>
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