Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is only one truly serious philosophical problem," wrote Albert Camus, "and that is suicide." In other words, what is it that makes life worth living? Religion's answer to that question today is still powerful, but far more muted than it used to be. Most men take their answers from the self-evident pleasure of being alive and, even in despair, from stubborn hope and a dimly realized sense of duty to the miracle of life. Camus' own answer was that revolt against the apparent meaninglessness of existence is noble, and that to revolt is to live...
...efforts to fuel U.S. education with cash, the Great Society has taken a relaxed view of the First Amendment ban on official establishment of religion. Convinced that all Americans will benefit, Congress has included parochial-school students in a $1.3 billion federal program aiding U.S. public schools, and folded church-related campuses into a $1.6 billion plan for aiding higher education. The purpose is surely secular, but is it constitutional...
...June, Maryland's top court invoked the Supreme Court's own test when it banned compulsory Bible reading in public schools in 1963: "To withstand the strictures of the Establishment Clause there must be a secular legislative purpose and a primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits religion." It did not matter that the grants were specifically limited to nonreligious purposes-construction of dormitories and science buildings. Instead, the court asked whether each church college was so permeated by religion that a secular grant would automatically aid its sectarian ambiance...
Brown, Novak & Napier sounds like a plausible name for a law firm; actually it is a winning combination at Stanford. Inspired by Presbyterian The ologian Robert McAfee Brown and Roman Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak, religion has become one of Stanford's most adventurous intellectual disciplines, and Dean of the Chapel B. Davie Napier has turned the once staid services at the pseudo-Roman esque Memorial Church into a continuing experiment in worship. The result is an enlightening case study of how Christianity on a secular campus can be imaginatively brought to life...
Going Beyond a Charter. Academically, the renaissance of religion at Stanford began in 1962, when Theologian Brown was hired away from Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary as professor of religion. Guided by a 19th century charter that forbade any sectarian instruction in doctrine, the university did not even have a lecturer in religion until 1951. Now the religion teaching staff, operating within the humanities division, consists of four...