Word: humanisme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A world-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist will testify in a closely watched suit in which fundamentalist Christians have charged that Alabama school children are being indoctrinated into the "religion of secular humanism."
The testimony will be based on a series of interviews with plaintiffs' children seeking to discover how they have been affected by the alleged secular humanism of the textbooks, the professor of psychiatry and medical humanities said.
The plaintiffs in Smith v. Board of Mobile County allege that the secular humanism found in the textbooks and the teachings in the Alabama Public School System hinder the parents' efforts to install religious values at home, said Ricki L. Seidman, director of a defense fund helping finance the suit...
Coles, who teaches one of the most popular courses at Harvard, General Education 105, "The Literature of Social Reflection," said that the plaintiffs say that secular humanism is a religion contrary to their own religion and that it violates their Constitutional rights.
To die-hard aficionados of long-playing records, it is nothing less than a Faustian struggle between humanism and technocracy for music's soul. To the growing legion of compact-disc devotees, it is a contest that pits the past against the future of high-fidelity audio recording.