Word: religio
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...year-old Alan Strang, he holds his compact, still-smallish body straight and still, his hands thrust down at his side - a polite, almost stolid youth who, as his story unfolds through the prodding of the psychiatrist tasked with finding the motivation for his horrific crime, is transported into religio-sexual ecstasy in the presence of his equine gods. In a Broadway season when neophytes from Katie Holmes to Cedric the Entertainer are making their stage debuts, Radcliffe transcends stunt casting. He holds his own nicely opposite Richard Griffiths, the portly, Tony-winning star of The History Boys, who makes...
...remain, the numbers of doctors, professors, university teachers, engineers and technicians available to them sinks by the day. Meanwhile, central government has more or less ceased to exist, leaving the provision of social services to local sectarian strong-men and their militias who allocate these services on a mainly religio-political basis. In short, most Iraqis now live in localities governed by groups with insistent religious agendas...
...film, Nadine Labaki (she's the shop's owner) dedicates the film to "My" Beirut and she presents the city as unscarred by warfare and looking, frankly, rather chic - an up-and-coming Third World capital, which, of course, it once was before it was gripped by religio-ideological terror...
...separation between conservative Christian groups and more secular groups on the left. Both use the terminology of "culture war, " which I appropriated. But thankfully, these wars are by and large rhetorical or legal, which distinguishes us from other cultures where violence seems to be the inevitable outcome of religio-political divisions...
...Lord of the Sabbath" flout the one that explicitly orders all humans to observe the day. Most important, Neusner read Jesus' repeated rhetorical formula "You have heard that it was said [in the Torah] ... But I say to you ... " as his claim to be not merely the religio-military Messiah some Jews hoped for at the time but also above the Torah and hence God. Neusner imagined having a dialogue with a Jesus-era Jewish "master" about Jesus' Torah teaching...