Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Economics has its recognized limits, Government has definite restrictions, even the "science of left-overs," Sociology, is not allowed full away. But in Anthropology there are no restrictions except a rather insignificant one of time. Economics, Government, Religion, Law, History, all have their place and Anthropology is competent to deal with them. The time limit restricts Anthropology to "man's beginnings" and the material is of two kinds. First, the study of archaeological deposits, and, secondly, the study of atrophied civilization found in primitive societies...
...latter part of the semester with pre-historic archaeology. For a short time after the mid-year period the course deals with racial distribution, and the rest of the year is spent with cultural anthropology, or Ethnology. The ethnology itself is divided into its departments of Religion, Sociology, Marriage and the Family...
...Cardinal O'Connell who has muttered, "It is better for everyone concerned when a priest keeps his place." For Father Coughlin is responsible only to his superior, Bishop Michael James Gallagher. And he claims the backing of Pope Pius XI who has said that "every minister of holy religion must throw himself, heart and mind, into the conflict for social justice." Last fortnight and again last week, Father Coughlin's ten million inarticulates suddenly beheld him on the newspapers' front pages, a dramatic figure in two conflicts far from churchly...
...further slur on Christianity in the Gothic decorations of a commercial radio topped by an adding machine in the Parke, Davis panel. Director Valentiner retorted that the museum had "invested more taxpayers' money in symbols, emblems and decorations of the Christian faith" than in those of any other religion. But hot criticism continued and last week the Detroit News swept up the whole job as "a slander to Detroit workingmen," advised returning the walls to plain white plaster...
...influence of over-population, history and problems of the family, and several others. After graduation, if you should leave the field of Sociology proper, you might settle for study either on some one of the special "social problems" such as war, marriage and divorce, eugenics and birth-control, modern religion, international relations, revolutionary movements, tendencies in art and literature, and so on--or in one of the correlated fields: Cultural History, Anthropology, Social Psychology, Economics, and others. As preparation for non-academic careers Sociology is as good as the other disciplines in fact somewhat better, because of its broadness...