Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purest form by adults," says one prominent U.S. sociologist. "They are doing their own thing. All this shows that there is a breakdown in the capacity of adult leaders to capture the young." Some other observers agree that the youth movement is a politics without a statesman, a religion without a messiah. "We don't need a leader," insists Janis Joplin. "We have each other. All we need is to keep our heads straight and in ten years this country may be a decent place to live...
Before the Reformation, religion had hardly been a problem, since both the Irish and the English were Roman Catholics. After it, the Church of England maintained that its members were still Catholics but refused to recognize the authority of the Pope. Both church and Crown took a dim view of the Irish Catholics, who continued their allegiance to the Pope. Both also viewed with disfavor the Scotch-Irish Protestants, considering them dissidents from the Church of England. As a result, relations between the Irish Protestants and Catholics were often surprisingly good, since both felt oppressed by England...
Owner of the vaults is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is centered in Salt Lake City, Mormons keep voluminous records and make full use of the vaults because of a little-known but highly important role that genealogy plays in their religion. In Salt Lake City this month the Mormons sponsored the first World Conference on Records, which drew some 8,000 genealogists, archivists and others from 46 countries around the world...
Proxy Baptism. Mormon interest in genealogy stems from the religion's status as a recent or "latterday" faith. Christ's Gospel, in Mormon belief, was lost in ancient times through man's wickedness and was not restored until Joseph Smith received his golden plates from the Angel Moroni in upstate New York in 1823. But the acceptance of the "restored Gospel," and baptism in the True Church that proclaimed it, was considered necessary to earn the highest reward after the resurrection, the "celestial kingdom." Some way, then, had to be found to bring into that kingdom those...
Married. The Most Rev. James P. Shannon, 48, recently resigned Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis; and Ruth Wilkinson, 50, a longtime friend and lifetime Protestant (see RELIGION...