Word: religion
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Epps went to a Catholic high school and then received his A.B. at Talladega College in Alabama. His academic interests are as diverse as his activities outside the classroom. He studied religion at Harvard, is presently a teaching fellow in Middle Eastern Studies, and, at twenty-seven, soon plans to finish his Ph.D. in Social Relations...
...religion of the future" predicted by Religious Atheist Marie Guyau in 1886 is coming into existence. In 1957 Martin Buber told a Unitarian minister: "The old distinctions between religion and non-religion are dead. Religion has nothing to do with church attendance as such nor with doctrinal beliefs as such. These old distinctions are utterly meaningless in the present situation. Those who call themselves religious and those who call themselves nonreligious must join hands to find the first steps out of our human situation. In his readiness to do this, the agnostic or even the atheist may be more religious...
...flight engineer who tried to hijack a Cubana Airlines plane March 27th and ended up killing the pilot and a guard before leaping from the plane and escaping (TIME, April 8). Last week Castro finally found his man-and with him an excuse to discredit what little remains of religion in Cuba...
...changes are breaks with tradition; some represent the discarding of a recent for a much older tradition. In religion, for example, some new trends have been startling and even disturbing. Yet such drives as the ecumenical movement and use of the liturgy in the vernacular are really intended to recover the forms of an older, deeper Christianity. From the churches to the laboratories, change itself has become the only constant. Says Stanford's Dr. Dwight Allen: "We are not shifting from one sort of tradition to another; we are in flux for keeps. We have to adjust institutions, attitudes...
Waugh was deepened by his religion, and the deepening was steeply apparent in Brideshead Revisited (1945), a lyric celebration of Catholicism that alternates pious puling with the loveliest cadences he ever came upon. He was broadened by the war, and the broadening was vigorously displayed in his masterpiece, a 972-page trilogy (Men at Anns, Officers and Gentlemen, The End of the Battle) which is now widely considered the best British novel of World War II. In the trilogy Waugh creates in Apthorpe his greatest comic character, a Falstaff as funny, as tragic, as human as the huge original...