Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story reveals, Marshfield is a stock character from Updike's central casting. He snorts at liberal Protestantism and pumps for devotion inspired by awe and terror ("Mop up spilt religion! Let us have it in its original stony jars or not at all!"). At the same time he pushes graphic, adulterous sex as suburbia's best anodyne; coupling is sweetest with the ashen taste of sin. He sees women chiefly as attractive hurdles in the heavenly sweepstakes, where all the runners are male...
...social system on his or her own (our lives are too obviously interdependent now for that). But the opposition to the factory system--to being treated like a machine, not a human being--continues. Salvation in the past lives on in working class culture: in music, often in religion, in emotional patriotism, in values, and even in faith in "America." Still, social events are gradually undermining belief in the myth, and workers cannot respond to its possible decline with mere liberalism...
Lawal's primary interest is art history but, he said, "when dealing with African arts you can't help talking about religion. It provides the main sort of basis for the arts, it is the chief patron...
Lawal's lectureship is under a joint appointment by the History of Religion department and the committee of Afro-American religious studies of the Divinity Schools...
John B. Carman, director of the Center for the Study of World Religion, said yesterday Lawal is part of an experimental program to bring different lecturers from Africa each year for the next several years...