Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pres. Harvard Christian Science Organization...
Fellowship of Christian Athletics...
...Fellowship of Christian Athletes...
...Christian Fellowship Manager, Harvard Band Prop Crew...
Faced with the mysteries of suicide, Friedrich tentatively offers such explanations as Freud's death drive and Emile Durkheim's theory that with the decline of Christian faith in the 19th century, suicide ceased to be a damnable act. The author seems to share Henry Adams' preference for the European 12th century and its security of belief as expressed in the glory of Gothic architecture. He does not assert that descriptions of the dark side of the Yankee mind, the haunted battlefields of the Civil War and the avarice of the Gilded Age as the disturbing context...