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Ogene Davis of Atlanta faithfully attended a black church through high school but became deeply troubled that "good" Christians could tolerate a socially and racially unjust world. "Christianity was not working for blacks," he concluded. Karima Omar Kamouneh (nee Virginia Marston) of Burbank, Calif., was raised by devout Episcopalians but felt plausibility was somehow lacking. "I had milked everything out of Christianity, and it still didn't make sense," she relates. Dawud Wong Chun, a Chinese American in Brooklyn, says simply that he thirsted for a "pious, virtuous, fruitful life...
Some Muslim leaders see an invigorating sort of challenge in the highly secular and sometimes hostile American environment. "The freedom of expression in this country is allowing Muslims here to practice in the true sense," says Safi Qureshey, a devout Sunni and successful California businessman. Historian Haddad notes that many immigrants and "sojourners" -- students who come for several years -- are nominal Muslims who arrive knowing little about the faith. The freedoms of American society lead them to reflect on their beliefs, she says, and many return to their homelands as leaders. The U.S. has thus become not only a melting...
Winchester's activities have not always received official support. He has been suspended twice without pay after members of the Pentagon's community of Christian Fundamentalists complained that his group was not sufficiently "Christ centered." Winchester, a devout Roman Catholic, sat down with his adversaries. He convinced them that the group would bring people closer to God and agreed to remain under the chaplain's chain of command. Since then, he has begun offering monthly stress-reduction workshops and has conducted a special meditation program for employees of the Defense Intelligence Agency...
Locally, hundreds of cyclists gather every year at the old Indian Motorcycle manufacturing plant in Springfield, Mass., which has now become a museum. Although Indian motorcycle manufacture ceased in the 1950s, the bikes "still have a devout following...
Such quiet radicalism has at times unsettled followers so devout that they would readily give up their lives for their leader. In the draft constitution he drew up in 1963, the God-King included, against his people's wishes, a clause that would allow for his impeachment. Now he is considering new methods for choosing the next Dalai Lama -- adopting an electoral system similar to the Vatican's, perhaps, or selecting on the basis of seniority, or even dispensing with the entire institution. "I think the time has come -- not necessarily to take a decision very soon, but to start...