Word: religion
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Ocean & Waves. Rubenstein, who has an M.A. from Jewish Theological Seminary and a doctorate in psychology of religion from Harvard, expressed his disbelief in Judaism's traditional deity in After Auschwitz, a collection of essays published in 1966. There he argued that Hitler's holocaust was deathly proof that the "transcendent, theistic God of Jewish patriarchal monotheism" was no more. Strongly influenced by the late Paul Tillich, Rubenstein nonetheless concludes that there is a "Holy Nothingness" as the source of all being. This Holy Nothingness is totally beyond human comprehension or categorization, and he compares its relationship with...
Rubenstein believes that religion still has a worthwhile social value in an age of atheism. He is convinced that it can help men live with "the cold, indifferent cosmos" by providing a form of fellowship and hope, primarily through spiritually satisfying liturgy and ritual. "The primary role of religion is priestly," Rubenstein argues. "It offers men a ritual and mythic structure in which the abiding realities of life and death can be shared...
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Freud offended the hierarchs of all faiths by his dismissal of religion as a neurosis, and psychoanalysis is still frowned upon by Austria's Roman Catholic Church, even when it is practiced by unswervingly Catholic psychiatrists. But Dr. Frankl's Jewishness is not held against him by Catholics as it was against Freud and Adler. In his system there is such a big place for religion that he is a favorite of Salzburg's Archbishop Franz Jachym, who endorses his writings. To the extent that the church accepts Frankl, the Freudians and Adlerians tend to reject...
Pacific students have held seminars on parapsychology and Viet Nam, traveled into the Mojave to study desert ecology. A comparative religion course came alive through visits to Catholic Masses, Seventh-Day Adventist services, even a Satanic Church in San Francisco. They can study anything they choose on their own, and no one cares whether they attend class. "I just go down there and holler at nine in the morning," says Math Teacher Ray Ditman, "and if nobody shows up, I go back home...