Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First of Dodd's talks on the general subject of "History and the Gospels" will be entitled "Christianity as an Historical Religion." On Friday he will continue this discussion by taking up the subject, "The Historical Tradition in the New Testament...
...When his mistress and Herr Professor Max Müller of Munich one day discussed making dogs into sausages, Kurwenal exclaimed: "The Christian religion prohibits killing...
Partly by reason of their religion Jewish farmers differ from most others. Although they engage in many forms of agriculture (but chiefly poultry and truck farming), they tend to live in groups; for Jewish dietary laws and ritual practices are hard to fulfill in isolation, and ten Jewish men is the smallest permissible group for public worship. With well developed commercial instincts many a Jewish farmer also takes in summer boarders...
...three centuries back. "The Henrletta," written in 1887, is probably Howard's greatest work. Consistent with his theory that the master theme of America is big business, he brings forth in this play a tragicomedy of the stock-ticker. Trenchant satire aimed at those for whom business is "health, religion, friendship, love" is the core, "The Henrletta" is well above the level of melodrama, and hence there will be no burlesquing of maudlin morality, but rather a serious rendition of serious social comment, on the theme that has since been dwelt upon by Lewis, O'Neill, and others...
...great mosque in Constantinople. *Psychology and Religion-Yale University Tress...