Word: paganism
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Strip away the veneer of traditional religion, however, and a superstitious pagan often lurks underneath. Many Russians light candles in church nowadays the way they formerly paid their Communist Party dues -- as a kind of insurance, just in case. Belief in miracles remains strong in a nation once fervently dedicated to the scientific method. How else to explain the extraordinary following of psychic healers like Anatoli Kashpirovsky and Alan Chumak, who held audiences spellbound with their televised seances a few years ago? Even sophisticated Muscovites rushed to buy supposedly energized issues of newspapers and placed jars of water by their...
...Testament prophecy assumed that history would proceed along lines laid down by a purposeful God. Pagan deities were more capricious, scattering clues to the future through animal entrails and the constellations. But both traditions believed that human destiny was directed from above. With the growth of science and technology, a new idea arose: perhaps the future was largely in mortal hands, capable of being plumbed through an examination of human capabilities and ambitions...
Veronica Rosales '94 and Estela Torres '94, thetreasurer and co-chair respectively of LatinasUnidas, taught a workshop on painting masks forDia de Los Muertos ("Day of the Dead"). TheMexican holiday, which falls on November 1,encompasses "a mixture of pagan and Catholictraditions," said Rosales...
...when artistic discourse has tended to be nasty, brutish and short- winded, Olivier Messiaen's musical grands projects stand apart from -- and largely above -- the works of his more prosaic mid-century contemporaries. Devoutly Catholic, the French composer was blessed with a pagan sense of muscular rhythm and luminous color. Highly intellectual, he was also irredeemably mystical, taking an almost childlike pleasure in the sounds of nature, especially bird song. He followed no "ism" and founded no school, but Messiaen, who died in April at 83, looms as one of the century's giants...
...best ensemble cast since Nicholas Nickleby, performing the most elegant and rueful memory play since Broadway Bound, if not The Glass Menagerie. In a weary and mutually tolerant Irish family of five sisters and a brother, playwright Brian Friel finds a whole world, pagan and Christian, ancient and modern, savage and sedate. Through a lifetime of theatergoing, one would be lucky to see acting any better than this...