Word: devoutely
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...presentation of a perfectly harmonious United States. Despite what the state department says, it is not an effortless task for outsiders to be integrated into our Judeo-Christian cultural fabric. In my quite diverse Los Angeles public elementary school and middle school, we had a few very devout Muslims. For the most part, people respected their beliefs, or saved giggles about their requisite robes and foreign-sounding names for “normal” friends later. But they were occasionally mocked in public. Those struggling with English had it a lot harder...
...Assisi, Rumi was out to seriously question the spiritual assumptions of his day. By the standards of 13th century Balkh, his songs of union with the divine were rebellious fare indeed. But they were also uttered by a man who, at all points in his life, considered himself a devout Muslim. Rumi scholars like Franklin D. Lewis, author of the recent Rumi: Past and Present, East and West, are anxious to remind the poet's legions of new fans that when Rumi invited his listener or reader to leave the yesses and nos of conventional belief behind...
...Jewish, identified but hardly devout,” explained Summers, who is Harvard’s first Jewish president...
...body--and he installs her in a fancy apartment. Sugar's rise is rapid, but as a great man once said, mo' money, mo' problems. On her way up she has to deal with Rackham's dysfunctional family, including his half-mad mystic wife Agnes and his devout but lustful brother Henry, while at the same time concealing her shameful origins and making sure her sugar daddy stays sweet on her. Sugar seduces us because Faber lets us see both sides of her at once, the magnificent sexual schemer and the angry, damaged teenager whose mother sold...
...lawyer who was among the first to represent minorities in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire - and ends in the present day. But the focus is on the years just before World War II. With a storyteller's eye, Judit describes an unlikely mixture of worldly and parochial, secular and devout, in 1930s Budapest. Her father Imre was at the top of his class in a private school but unable to attend university because of restrictions on Jewish admission. As a result, he immersed himself in photography, developing his own darkroom techniques and leaving behind a striking black-and-white archive...