Word: religion
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...educated women, employment and working class women, feminism and suffrage, and the woman and her body--overwhelmingly sought after at the Institute. She says the figures indicate the Library's current resources as well as the drift of public interest, and that some of the lesser studied subjects, like religion, abolition and immigrant women, may be more popular elsewhere...
...ideology will matter, of course, but the struggle will most likely be decided on other grounds. It will be colored by religion and haunted by Watergate. More important, the American people, fed up with politics and politicians, are in a mood to choose the man they see as the stronger leader?someone they can trust...
EVANGELICALS. Catholics and Jews may be wary of Carter's Southern Baptist religion, but it makes him enormously attractive to the country's 40 million evangelical Protestants (30 million of whom are white). They are heavily concentrated in 17 Southern and Border states but also have considerable strength in the Midwest. Conservative by nature, white evangelicals have tended in recent presidential elections to vote Republican, according to an analysis in the evangelical fortnightly Christianity Today. Carter's down-home appeal has scrambled the evangelicals' loyalty, as was demonstrated by their heavy vote...
Moore deftly links the potential destructiveness of Sheila's behavior to larger rips in the social fabric- particularly to contemporary Northern Ireland and to "Belfast bombed and barricaded." Sheila thinks it "a bad joke that when the people at home no longer believed in their religion, or went to church as they once did, the religious fighting was worse than ever." Later, during an argument with her brother, Sheila is blunt to the point of despair: "The Protestants don't believe in Britain and the Catholics don't believe in God. And none of us believes...
...Observing the self-congratulatory excesses of Bicentennial America, some pop historians have found the empire's obituary a bit premature. Edward Gibbon's celebrated attribution of Rome's fall to "the triumph of barbarism and religion" has been supplanted by a more trenchant aphorism. "The decline of Rome," wrote Gibbon, "was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness...