Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Similar to the SCA in its attempt to tune out Harvard in a decidedly historical way was the Society for Interactive Literature Michael J. Massimilla '83 describes the club as a more sophisticated form of Dungeons and Dragons, a popular fantasy-adventure game with a cult following...
...last time a scholar had investigated the life of the third century Christian martyr Sainte Foy was in 1020, in the midst of a cult fascination with the 12-year-old mystic. Amy Remensynder figured it was about time to update the literature...
...History and Literature concentrator began researching the Sainte Foy cult sophomore year and this spring produced a senior honors thesis that Medieval History Professor Richard M. Fraher calls "a better piece of scholarship in this field than the last book that was published" on saint worship...
...cult of Sainte Foy (Faith), says Remensnyder, reflected a crucial transition from earlier, more imposing representations of saints to post-11th century cult figures, who, she explains were "merciful, tender, personal figures." In addition to reviewing documents and books on her subject, the senior actually visited the French village of Conquers, center of the Sainte Foy cult. She describes it as "a very, very wild area, overlooking a mountainy river gorge--I thought I would die trying to reach...
...pacifism, also rejecting the use of force, but on other, more American grounds. The grounds are pragmatic; the appeal is to prudence; and the theory is that force is to be abjured because, ultimately, it is futile. The new pacifism is not the practice of a crackpot cult. It represents a strongly felt, but almost invisible current of contemporary American thought. Invisible, because its most serious manifestation is not the antinuclear movement, which is neither particularly new (it is as old as its twin, the Bomb) nor necessarily pacifist, since one need not be a pacifist to oppose the suicide...