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Santas & Spenders. Last week in predominantly non-Christian Japan, Tokyo's big department stores vied with each other in hiring Santa Clauses and putting up Christmas trees. The streets were jammed with automobiles (twice as many as in 1954), and at Keio University, campus parking was restricted because of the increase in student-owned cars. In ten months the number of TV sets in Japan had increased from...
...non-Christian content of this culture includes war and politics. During history, "the Church condoned, tried to redeem, but had on the whole little effect" on the lovers of war, Toynbee elaborated...
Arnold J. Toynbee, world renowned scholar and historian, will deliver four lectures in Sanders Theatre, from October 24 to 27, it was learned yesterday. The lectures, sponsored by the Episcopal Theological Seminary, will be under the general title, "Christianity and the Non-Christian Faiths in the Contemporary World...
...Gwyon, Wyatt's father, finds gin more consoling than the Protestantism he preaches. When he is not hitting the bottle, he soaks up the rites of non-Christian faiths. One Christmas he comes unhinged, proclaims the gospel of Mithra from the pulpit after sacrificing a black bull. His horrified congregation packs him off to a sanitarium calted Happymount...
...summer two dozen U.S. evangelists descended on the country in an invasion planned to the last poster by ex-Propagandist Muto. Teaming up with Japanese pastors and three marimbas, an organ, harp, chorus, a public-address system and a portable stage, they had encouraging results for such a stubbornly non-Christian country: an estimated 88,520 people reached in 140 public services, and 45 baptized, with another 89 being prepared for baptism...