Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More exceptional will be a Negro Life Building (culture, not insurance); exhibits of the oil industry, among which will be a Hall of Religion provided by Lone Star Gas Co.; a radio theatre where audiences can see and hear Fair broadcasting, provided by Gulf Refining Co.; a jungle full of life-size dinosaurs provided by Sinclair...
...years Chief Tatagu lived without religion or superstition. Then there set foot on Marovo beach a missionary of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church named Captain G. F. Jones, an old seaman who had sailed, against the advice of the British Government, without an armed guard. Tatagu welcomed Missionary Jones and his white God. Among the first ten pupils in the school which the Adventist mariner established was small Kata Ragoso. This black Christian grew up to succeed his father as Chief of Chiefs, to become an ordained Adventist minister. Kata Ragoso helped the white men convert...
...partly as observer, partly as exhibit. at the 43rd general conference of Seventh-Day Adventists from all over the world. As observer, Kata Ragoso was chiefly struck by painted white women. Having supposed that the actions of all people, like those of his own, were guided by religion, he concluded that the U. S. is reverting to heathenism...
...lighthouse against which whole flocks of sophisticated blues-writers have dashed themselves in vain emulation. When Poet Eliot expatriated himself to England, there were few disapproving murmurs from his followers. But when he publicly renounced agnosticism, announced himself a "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion," he started an indignant fluttering in literary incubators that has not yet died down. Poet Eliot, now a naturalized British subject, a scholarly editor (The Criterion), even more highly regarded in his foster-country than in the U. S., a devout member of the Church of England, is a puzzling...
When Sunya Pratt was 14, her father gave her a number of books, told her to choose her-own religion. She chose Buddhism with "its philosophy of com passion, calmness, emancipation from ignorance and prejudice, its justice." Later she made Buddhists of her children and her husband, J. Wesley Pratt, a traveling salesman. ("It gives them a better understanding, free of all superstition.") But when the children grow up, Mrs. Pratt, now 38, intends to leave them and her home. She will have her head shaved, put on the. yellow robe of a mendicant nun, divest herself of all possessions...