Word: paganisms
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...scholar believes that Jesus was born in December; Smit thinks that the most likely time was the end of August. Not until the 4th century did the early church commemorate the Saviour's birth-and then it shrewdly but arbitrarily picked a date that coincided with a joyous pagan feast...
...husband and wife, Moray Watson and Geraldine McEwan strike precise discords. Barry Foster's vibrant Cristoforou is a more remarkable and indefinable creation, a Pan in spiv's clothing sounding pipes of pleasure that carry a lingering echo from ancient pagan groves...
...last word uttered by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on her deathbed in Paris in 1954 was "regarde." To her, it meant to look, feel, wonder, accept, live. For all her 81 years she obeyed that injunction with an immense, daylight sense of reality and a pagan delight in the sensuous experiences that delivered the world to her mind and to the blue note paper on which she recorded it. The Blue Lantern, written between 1946 and 1948 and now translated into English for the first time, is Colette's last major work-a moving but unsentimental record...
...write down their songs and tales in the past hundred years, but they are heirs to centuries of oral literature. In their search for an African identity, the continent's contemporary poets-many of them leading politicians-today have forsaken their mission-school Golden Treasury to rediscover the pagan rhymes and rhythms that enlivened tribal life long before the white man came. Says Léopold Sédar Senghor, who is black Africa's most distinguished poet as well as President of Senegal: "Poetry must find its way back to its origins...
...years, the Evangelical of East Germany have been to coexist with Communism. They have, for example, accepted the annual springtime Jugendweihe, a pagan parody of confirmation at which East German youths are enrolled as loyal children of the state. Now these Luther an and Calvinist churches, to which nearly all East Germans belong, are staking out a claim to freedom with a ten-point declaration of independence approved by their bishops at a closed-door synod meeting in Weissensee, a district of East Berlin. This policy statement is being compared to the scathing Barmen declaration of 1934, which was signed...