Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disobedience, who wrote: "Our first duties are not to our country. We belong first to God and next to our race." Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, a longtime activist who has marched against Southern white racism as well as the war, conceded that many latter-day dissenters disown any religion but upheld their moral right to resist the draft laws...
...Francisco's first Negro representative in the California state assembly. Durham's main defense of Glide's missionary ways is that they work, and that the church is loved and respected by thousands of deviates and dropouts who otherwise have nothing but contempt for organized religion. "God says 'yes' to man," he says. "So we want to help the disenfranchised, the alienated. The church must say 'yes' to all people because God cares about all people...
...various political and social upheavals, he winds up an industrial entrepreneur. The children, as usual, go modern in their own ways. One of Calman's daughters commits the heresy of an interfaith marriage. A son-in-law, fascinated and undermined by science, moves toward that 20th century religion-substitute, psychiatry. The son-in-law's sister moves to the city and turns into a forerunner of the Career Girl...
...possibility that only in Brazil would Toynbee's safety be assured, for he found Brazilian nationalism "ironic and lighthearted." But his point, though indelicately made, is clear enough. To a passionate one-worlder, the sight of nationalism in action is dreary at best. And as a champion of religion, Toynbee would replace the statues of the national liberators with "replicas of theChrist of the Andes and pictures of the Virgin of Guadalupe...
...highland wife that he had to build her an artificial knobbly mountain-the famous 'Hanging Gardens.' " Noting that Brasilia's TV tower dominates the city while the main body of the cathedral is subterranean, Toynbee observes that "technology is the dominant element in present-day life; religion is retreating to the catacombs again...