Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean objected to Watergate Burglar G. Gordon Liddy's comparing him to Judas in a CBS-TV interview. "Judas did not forewarn Christ," Dean noted. "But if I am Judas, I don't regret turning from the religion I turned from...
...judge from many a bookstore's religion shelf today, most of the U.S. reading public is variously interested in the occult (Edgar Cayce books; The Exorcism Series), pop piety (Joey Adams' The God Bit), sensationalized biblical "research" (The Jesus Party) or some aspect of esoteric Eastern religion...
...RELIGION AND SEXISM, edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether (Simon and Schuster; 356 pages; $3.95 paperback, $9.95 hardback). Those who seek the roots of sexism in Judaism and Christianity can find plenty of them in this collection of essays edited by Theologian Ruether, a Roman Catholic and an outspoken feminist. Eleven scholars-ten women and one man-investigate various, mostly pejorative images of women in Old and New Testaments, in canon law, in the thought of the Church Fathers, medieval scholastics, Protestant Reformers and even such modern theologians as Karl Barth and Paul Tillich. In this collection, at least, Tillich...
...real dialogue," they emphasize ways to bury residual Catholic prejudice and misunderstanding. An important section on education warns that "the Old Testament and the Jewish tradition founded upon it must not be set against the New Testament in such a way that the former seems to constitute a religion of only justice, fear and legalism, with no appeal to the love of God and neighbor." It then cites biblical passages to demonstrate the love of both in Judaism...
...Producers (1968). But Producers and his second feature, The Twelve Chairs, were box office flops, beloved by only a small but fanatic band. Last year, however, he broke out of the cult category with Blazing Saddles, a western that slings outrageous shots at-among other things-patriotism, religion and Marlene Dietrich...