Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Insofar as hippie religion is organized at all, it divides into three wings of more or less equal importance. One is the Neo-American Church, which claims an affiliation with the Native American Church, an authentic sect of primitive nature worshipers among the American Indian tribes in the Southwest. The connection is not the hippie love of red men but the fact that the Indians use the hallucinogenic drug peyote as a sacrament in their ceremonies...
...Angeles is the Oracle-Cosmic Joy Fellowship, whose prelates are known as "coordinators." At its regular services, worshipers sit cross-legged in an incense-clouded room festooned with Indian print cloths, statues of Buddha and votive candles, holding hands and ecstatically chanting "Om" (a Hindu word signifying "the ultimate religion...
Also included in this year's curriculum are two new fields for doctoral work: a Th.D. in Comparative Religion and a Th.D. in Applied Theology...
...program in Comparative Religion was designed "to meet a growing recognition that the church needs men who can work on theological problems of the world's religious diversity and on the dialogue with men of other faiths," Miller said in the report...
...longer is the call to the ministry felt as an unmistakable vocation; instead, the student today is exploring and expanding in many directions, and religion is only one of the areas in which he finds challenge," he said...