Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned to the reading of [Burckhardt's] wonderful chapter on the morality and religion of Italian people during Renaissance...
...TIME'S sincere apologies to Dr. Creighton. TIME's religion editor was misled by a dispatch, had no idea that he was distorting the incident...
...causes which might seem something dissimilar. Yet in Manhattan last week, representatives of organizations vowed to these six causes met in a united front. This clan gathering, celebrated the tenth birthday of the First Humanist Society, a body devoted to the spread of a man-centred, God-denying religion...
...Hassler Dietrich, nominally Unitarian, has preached this non-supernatural faith for nearly 25 years. But the Manhattan society was founded and is run by one of the most articulate and ubiquitous of U. S. divines, Dr. Charles Francis Potter, onetime Baptist, onetime Unitarian, onetime Universalist. Long a popularizer of religion, in books and lectures, Dr. Potter is currently absorbed with the study of extrasensory perception (telepathy, clairvoyance, prophecy), believes it possible to identify this phenomenon with Humanism. It has been Dr. Potter's custom to brighten his services by such devices as using rosebuds to baptize babies...
...pretty amateur effort," says he, but it fired him with the idea of combining his two passions. At Cincinnati's Graduate School of Applied Religion he toyed with the idea of religious documentary films, dropped it and in 1937 went the whole way to Hollywood...