Word: heathens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note on Buddhism which accompanied your article concerning the Dalai Lama. You correctly quoted the principle of Buddha's philosophy of life as self-conquest. This is refreshing to see, since an alarming number of Westerners seem to be under the impression that Buddhism is a lot of heathen mumbo jumbo designed to please a golden idol so that he would send the worshiper to heaven...
...colonial heroes who have their feet firmly planted in the muck of local tradition and their heads lifted to the sweet smell of Western excess. But where such literary antecedents as E.M. Forster's Dr. Aziz and Evelyn Waugh's Emperor Seth burned with a hard heathen shame, Ganesh shoulders the white-collar burden with the happy ease of a born...
...over the Far East, 19th century Christian missionaries tried to win the heathen with the hymn-huffing harmonium. Now from West German Protestant Theologian Ernst Benz comes an attack on the meek little organ as an instrument of "tyranny and dictatorship" that smothers rather than kindles the spread of Christian music in Asia. Some rebellious young Americans are using the phonograph, Dr. Benz reports, but this "increases the dangerous identification of Christian religion with Western technology." The real need is encouragement of native musicians using native instruments to perform the finest Christian music in their own way. "Freedom fighters must...
...Sixth Happiness. Ingrid Bergman brings religion to the heathen Chinee, and the customers get a massive (2 hr. 37 min.) helping of highly flavored but somewhat indigestible missionary stew...
...Sixth Happiness. Ingrid Bergman brings religion to the heathen Chinee, and the customers get a massive (2 hr. 37 min.) helping of highly flavored but somewhat indigestible missionary stew...