Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What he finds to remember is religion, but it is not the same as his grandfather's, for this, too, has undergone Americanization. The many varied regional or national sects and churches which the immigrants brought along with their cooking and their clothes have been reduced to a tripartite...
Published this week is a sharp-minded investigation of the American religious paradox. In Protestant-Catholic-Jew (Doubleday; $4) Jewish Author-Scholar Will Herberg maintains that both the religiousness and the secularism of the American people derive from much the same sources, and have combined to give the U.S. a...
The Biblical origin of the three faiths is not so important in this connection, Herberg believes, as the idea "that they are three diverse representations of ... the 'spiritual values' American democracy is presumed to stand for." Thus "it becomes virtually mandatory for the American to place himself in...
Surrounded by the volcanoes of Honolulu, the delegates to the 58th triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church appropriately reminded themselves of Asia's explosive situation. The customary pastoral letter of the House of Bishops (which must be read to all Episcopal congregations within the month) pointed to...
Some 500 leaders of the Protestant church met in New York Wednesday to honor Doughlas Horton as Neil Dean of the Divinity School. At a dinner in the Riverside Church, Horton's efforts as minister of the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches was recognized by the clergymen with...