RELIGION IN THE NEWS: MYSTICISM

General And Miscellaneous

  "Javanese Mystical Beliefs," New York Times, January 28, 2008.

Cameron W. Barr, "Indonesia's Shadowy Mysticism," Christian Science Monitor, April 9, 1998.

Judaism

Harriet Sherwood, "Jerusalem Exhibition Lifts The Veil On Hasidic Jewish Culture," Guardian, August 13, 2012.

  William Grimes, "A Metaphysics Starter Kit, And A Primer In Jewish Arcana," New York Times, December 23, 2005.

  "Madonna Defends Kabbalah Interest," BBC News, October 31, 2005.

John Sweeney, "Kabbalah Leader's Holocaust 'Slur,'" BBC News, January 9, 2005.

Debra Nussbaum Cohen, "Jewish Mysticism Surges On A Tide Of Red Strings," New York Times, December 13, 2003.

Christian Mysticism

  Finlo Rohrer, "An Everyman's Mystic," BBC News, November 27, 2007.

Sufism

Kiran Alvi, "Islamists Make Sufi Shrines A Target In North Africa," NPR Two-Way, February 10, 2013.

Tim Judah, "Senegal's Mourides: Islam's Mystical Entrepreneurs," BBC News, August 3, 2011.

Melody Moezzi, "The True Spiritual Leader Of Iran Is Rumi," Guardian, June 10, 2011.

Anita Sethi, "Jahan E Khusrau's Magic Sufi Music," Guardian, April 21, 2011.

Irfan Al-Alawi, "Egyptian Extremism Sees Salafis Attacking Sufi Mosques," Guardian, April 11, 2011.

Dawood Azami, "Sufism Returns To Afghanistan After Years Of Repression," BBC News, February 23, 2011.

Huma Imtiaz and Charlotte Buchen, "The Islam That Hard-Liners Hate," New York Times, January 6, 2011.

William Dalrymple, "Muslims In The Middle," New York Times, August 16, 2010.

  Robert Mackey, "Mullah Omar Calls For A Taliban Surge," New York Times News Blog, March 6, 2009.

"Sufi Shrine 'Blown Up By Taleban,'" BBC News, March 5, 2009.

  Barbara Plett, "Can Sufi Islam Counter The Taliban?," BBC News, February 24, 2009.

Jane Lampman, "Sufism May Be Powerful Antidote To Islamic Extremism," Christian Science Monitor, December 5, 2007.

  "Iran Police Battle Sufi Muslims," BBC News, November 12, 2007.

  Charles Haviland, "The Roar Of Rumi -- 800 Years On," BBC News, September 30, 2007.

C.J. Chivers, "Sufi Traditions Are Returning To Chechnya," New York Times, May 26, 2006.

Roxani Saberi, "Growing Popularity Of Sufism In Iran," BBC News, April 25, 2006.

Scott Baldaug, "Blue Locks Replace String In An Ancient Afghan Tradition," Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 2005.

Peter Culshaw, "The Whirling Wind Of God," Observer, October 16, 2005.

Edward Wong, "Sufis Under Attack As Sunni Rifts Widen," New York Times, August 21, 2005.

  Asim Butt, "Pakistan's Mystical Islam Thrives," BBC News, August 11, 2005.

  Douglas Martin, "Martin Lings, A Sufi Writer On Islamic Ideas, Dies At 96," New York Times, May 29, 2005.

Jonathan Curiel, "Sufi Groups Give It A Whirl Despite Complaints Of Fundamentalists," San Francisco Chronicle, November 17, 2004.

Peter Greste, "Sufi Renaissance After Taleban Fall," BBC News, December 9, 2001.

Peter Culshaw, "Giving The Dervish A Whirl," Guardian, December 1, 2001.

  Malcolm Haslett, "Afghanistan's Holy City," BBC News, November 6, 2001.

Scott Baldauf, "Loss Of Tolerance Mourned In Kashmir," Christian Science Monitor, July 19, 2001.

Suman Bandrapalli, "The Sufi Sect," Christian Science Monitor, February 12, 1996.