Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daring Action. Last week's piece of Christian history began with a procession under the warm Indian sun. Two by two they strode, 1,000 strong, into a striped tent called a shamiana, and New Delhi's Hindus, Moslems, Jains and Buddhists gaped at their diversity. Archbishops and patriarchs, metropolitans and primates, bishops, canons, pastors and professors-capped, cassocked, bearded, bareheaded, in flowing robes or academic gowns, in business suits or sarongs-bodied forth the range and outreach of Christianity. Among them: Anglican Arthur Michael Ramsey, Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake, Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry, German Evangelical Otto Dibelius...
...this is outside of his field. On the other hand, he delves into several matters totally ignored by the writers. One such subject is the Baptist Church, now claiming some three million worshippers (the Orthodox Patriarchate estimates its own (membership) at between twenty-five and thirty million). According to Hindus, the Baptist faith has divested its followers of all the brutality indigenous to the old Russian peasantry and made of them the most temperate among men. Hindus explains this phenomenon in purely religious terms; the peasant in purely religious terms: the peasant is just overwhelmed by the beautiful simplicity...
...chapters of the intellectuals, Hindus adapts Turgenev's classification of the nineteenth century intellectuals into fathers and sons, Today's fathers' are those who personally experienced the Revolution and their writings, perhaps because of the experimental nature of the Soviet state, were largely theoretical. Most writers have been brow-beaten into accepting the official Party line but from time to time a lone figure such as Pavlov or Pasternak rebels...
...have never," Hindus writes, "encountered any young Soviet citizens, workers or intellectuals, who question collective ownership of the 'means of production.' They accept the Soviet economy without reservations, and I am certain they would battle against any movement to overthrow it. They know nothing else, and to them the term 'capitalism' spells depravity and damnation." They fight only to buy more books, to write about day to day problems rather than about the romance of building Socialism, and to wear lipstick and play jazz...
...Russian, Hindus concludes, live in a society built upon a strong ideological foundation. Economical and institutional walls do tumble here and there, and others are torn down and rebuilt. Having no rigid structure, their society is-as yet- a house without a roof...