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He cited a variety of pluses about the program, including the high degree of senior faculty participation: the high number of students enrolled in Core courses: the introduction into the liberal arts curriculum of several subjects not covered by the old General Education program, like music and foreign cultures: and...
The Harvard Foundation allocated more than $5,000 last fall and plans to spend close to $15,000 on students projects this spring. While the money need not go to minority groups, it must be used to foster improved campus race relations or appreciation of minority cultures, according to S...
The 19th century missionaries and their immediate successors have been attacked by historians and many Third World leaders for having served as spiritual agents of the colonizing powers, blithely destroying cultures as they sought to impose Western values as well as Christian doctrines on their converts. In a somewhat more...
The burgeoning evangelical groups often post missionaries to foreign countries without waiting to be invited, while N.C.C. missionary boards stress close collaboration with Third World churches. Nonetheless, the conservatives are becoming far more sophisticated in anthropology and far more respectful of the peoples and cultures of other nations than they...
The new sensitivity toward local cultures has led even conservative Protestants to treat tribal religion with respect. Missionaries try to banish belief in, and fear of, evil spirits; yet they also plumb the animist religions for concepts of eternal life or of a remote "high god" or primordial creator that...