Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning on February S, a new series of lectures will be conducted by the Phillips Brooks House Association on "Religion and the Major Professions." This is the seventh series to be given in Peabody Hall and will take place Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock...
...Religion. Although urban Cubans are mostly Catholic, Voodooism flourishes in small towns and "up country." Within the fortnight Mayor Miguel Quintana of Pueblo Nueva has confessed that he and three other Negro townsmen recently sacrificed eight-year-old Martin Perez to Voodoo Goddess Chantong...
...brings him back to Rivertown again, and the first thing he learns is that the real Marcia has really been killed. Then he is in a chaos. Still violently opposed to the Reds, he begins to doubt the divine right of his own convictions, thinks "Maybe this is another religion...
...seek to aggravate religious perturbation in Mexico. It is scarcely conceivable that these sects are striving sincerely for religious uplift and the propagation of their own faiths since in their own United States, according to the official census, there are more than 60,000,000 North Americans without any religion whatsoever...
Harvey G. Woodward made a fortune in Birmingham and Manhattan real estate and in his family's Woodward Iron Co. Bluff, hearty, he scorned any show of wealth, frequently wore khaki trousers, woolen shirts. In life he made known his views on education and religion to only a few intimates. Born of an Episcopal family, of British ancestry, he was never a church member, never a Ku Kluxer. He believed that religion is a personal matter, that church dogma should not be taught as fact. His reason for placing his chain-schools in the country, for restricting enrolment...