Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Remove the profit motive from Religion & Co. by abolishing its tax-exempt status. This will help balance the budget, and remove most of the hypocrites, kooks and crooks from the ranks. Filling out an IRS form is powerful therapy...
Several courses on the Middle East might also be included in the Core offerings which will appear for the first time next year. Clausen said. William A. Graham, assistant professor of Islamic Religion, may teach a course on the Koran, Clausen said. Graham could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...works we observe the contradictory interpretation of the social and political reality of Afro-Americans. On the one hand were the horrors of slavery and the middle passage, while on the other hand were the possibilities of redemption and affirmation of the humanistic ideal of man which the Christian religion promised, and which ob-jectively spoke of the noblest ideals of man. It was, I suspect, the attempt to bring forth a synthesis of these two antagonistic poles that became the modus operandiof the literature...
This synthesis of science and religion is taking place not only between science and Judaeo-Christian theology, but also between science and traditional Eastern cosmologies, such as Buddhism, Taoism and Shintoism. The greatest challenge now is to discover a unifying principle operating in both the material and spiritual domains...
Behind this banter lay a keen intelligence. The literary value of her letters is high, not only for what she said about her own works but for her perceptive comments on others. She admired Graham Greene, with reservations: "What he does, I think, is try to make religion respectable to the modern unbeliever by making it seedy." Her comment on the Beat Generation writers was pithy and devastating...