Word: haring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cults such as Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, Scientology, Synanon, Hare Krishna and Children of God offer a refuge from the storms of the world. They purport to know the truth of existence, which members promise is available to anyone willing to submit to the discipline of the sect...
...What looks like a sidewalk Santa, sounds like a sidewalk Santa, panhandles like a sidewalk Santa, but isn't, according to some, a legitimate sidewalk Santa? Why, a Hare Krishna Santa, of course. This year, Hare Krishna Santa, have stepped up their campaign, perhaps bolstered by the demise of Volunteers of America Santas in Boston. But they are not always well-received by people on the street who think the Krishna Clauses misrepresent themselves and take money away from more established charities like the Salvation Army. Last Saturday, the Krishna Claus working Park Square seemed to be doing fairly well...
...child growing up in a Hare Krishna family experiences a radically different lifestyle compared to that of most American children. Syama-Kunda (below) is two-and-one-half years old. He lives at the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in Boston with his mother, Madanmohanmohini (above), and his father, Sivananda-Das (above, right...
Although the Hare Krishna child lives in an environment sharply contrasting with most of our own, the emotions and experiences he and his parents go through as he grows up seem uncannily similar. No matter what the time or place, the family unit emerges as a force everywhere...
...analysis is suspect if it conjoins such disparate groups as the Moonies, the Hare Krishnas, the practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, the Jesus freaks, Scientology, est, the newfound devotees of Oriental religions in the U.S. like Sufi or Zen Buddhism, and the followers of individual cult leaders like Jim Jones or Guru Maharaj Ji. But since academic sociologists refuse to take these groups seriously enough to study them, the general ignorance on the whole matter may be lightened by a few generalized stabs in the dark...