Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty subcommittee that met last week to discuss how to classify the University's religion courses may find itself dealing with a long-standing controversy--exactly how religion will be taught at Harvard...
...congratulate you on your perceptive and timely Essay "On Death as a Constant Companion" [Nov. 12]. You show that the answer of religion to doubts about death does not satisfy modern man, and that philosophy and science have done no better. I remind you of parapsychology, or psychical research, which attempts the scientific study of phenomena not yet understood by physical principles. Most research done in this field deals with extrasensory perception, but there are also investigators, like me, who are concerned with studies that may throw light on whether or not human personality or some aspect of it survives...
...fundamentalist missionary who enters the jungle to save the Niaruna. He is a kindly but conventional Christian who truly believes that the Indians will burn in brimstone if he does not baptize them. He pays for his stupidity to the uttermost farthing. The Niaruna indignantly reject his religion, his wife goes crazy with the heat, his small son dies of blackwater fever, and as the tragedy concludes he is hacked to pieces by the only important Niaruna who calls himself a convert...
...twentieth century," he says. He and his colleagues, in undertaking sociological studies for the Divinity School, have sought the advice of specialists in other fields. They have met with representatives of the Business School to consider questions of business ethics and will hold forums with the Education School on religion in public schools...
...School's projects to its students. The student body includes "everything from Bible-thumping Baptists to Unitarians, not to mention Roman and Eastern Catholics, atheists, and a number of Jews." About half of them are studying for the ministry, but the majority of the others will teach religion in colleges and seminaries...