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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lyricist John Barlow, in a foreword to the indispensable handbook Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads, describes the fans' playful ardor as "a religion without beliefs." That sounds about right. For most Deadheads, a concert was a church they attended not so much for the gospel as for the communion and community, the hymns and the incense. A giant mushroom cloud of hallucinogenics would lay over the crowd like a fuzzy blanket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JERRY GARCIA: THE TRIP ENDS | 8/21/1995 | See Source »

This is the third provocative reconsideration of early Christian belief by Pagels, 52, an Episcopal churchgoer, though not one who counts herself a conventional believer. In The Gnostic Gospels, about the early Christian sect whose members aimed at mystical communion of the individual with God, Pagels set out a scriptural alternative that was shunned from the outset by the institutional church. In 1988 she published Adam, Eve and the Serpent, a study of the influential way St. Augustine read the Garden of Eden story as a symbol of man's fall, though some earlier Christians had seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

...hear this," Charlie Haden said, passing across the silvery CD as if it were a communion wafer. "Man, you got to hear this. It's like going to church." The music came on, cool and reverent: Hank Jones playing It's Me, O Lord (Standing in the Need of Prayer). If church were as blissful as this--if it swung like this--there would be a worldwide conversion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

...piety. Obviously you can't be gay and be in the Church without rejecting a great deal. That's someting irreconcilable. Finally, of course, the Church is greater than the men who lead it, and there's too much about it that's helpful to me--prayer and communion, to name just two--to reject it outright...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Henri Cole | 5/12/1995 | See Source »

...Malik catches Das' contradictory yearnings, caught up in India's independence movement yet in thrall to Dickens and all things English. Felicity Kendall wittily and poignantly plays the free-spirited Flora, who shows Das that only by being true to himself and his own culture can he find communion with her in the realm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST END STORY | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

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