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...Indeed, even the people who in 2006 decided against including Reason and Faith in the Gen Ed requirements did so not because they did not consider religion worth studying, but because they felt that “courses dealing with religion??both those examining normative reasoning in a religious context and those engaging in a descriptive examination of the roles that religion plays today and has historically played—can be readily accommodated in other categories.” Harvard students are famous for allowing certain categories of learning outside their comfort zones to slip into obscurity?...
...Hindus, and Muslims were slaughtered, and the streets of Delhi ran with blood, as William Dalrymple writes in his history of the city, “City of Djinns.” In 1984, when Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards after ordering a raid on the religion??s holiest shrine to evict the militants holing up there, the citizens of Delhi formed mobs and the violence ended with several thousand Sikhs dead...
...course this Spring, told me that animal law’s rise reflects the growing social ferment on animal issues. He predicts that animal law is just the “leading edge of human-animal studies” as the academy—from sociology to religion??catches up with society’s unease with our existing relationship with animals...
...giving thanks in different forms as each group shared a prayer before the meal’s start. “Everyone celebrates Thanksgiving,” said CSA’s Vice President for Spirituality Marisol Boc ’09. “It supersedes religion??even if it’s just the people around us we thank, not some higher being.” Rebecca D. Gillette ’10, vice president for community relations for Hillel, emphasized the universality of Thanksgiving. “Being thankful is a universal thing for people...
Politics and religion is an unholy duo indeed; the pairing, which seems to form naturally, ends up hurting both its constituent parts. Religion??s positive attributes are overshadowed by its particular use as a political tool, and it seems unfair and unhelpful to enforce religious values on a diverse population in a participatory democracy...