Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ralph W. Burhoe, Editor Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science...
...overnight shift of authority. Said Escobar: "Getting control of the Canal Zone and the canal is one of Panama's oldest national desires. To generation after generation of Panamanians, the canal has symbolized the country's national patrimony?in the hands of foreigners. We developed a kind of national religion over the canal." Linowitz told TIME, "In the world as a whole, Panama is regarded as a colonial enclave. The treaty sets off a whole new relationship between the U.S. and Latin America. We can prove how a great nation can deal magnanimously with a small nation at a time...
Over the years they have evolved into a brigade of international nomads, embracing a new religion proclaimed in hundreds of rambling "Mo Letters" from their founder and prophet, "Moses David" (né David Brandt Berg), 58. These Mo Letters have, among other things, encouraged the female Children of God to become "Happy Hookers for Jesus...
...Research Triangle is hoping to attract other kinds of tenants as well. One, the newly formed National Humanities Center, has already broken ground at the park. Funded by private foundations and corporations, the center aims to encourage interdisciplinary research in such fields as history, religion, philosophy, sociology and the arts. It will finance nine months of carefree study for 25 to 50 scholars at a time. Eventually the center would like to enhance the influence of the humanities in the same way that Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study boosted the reputation of physics and mathematics by nurturing such...
...church is equally assertive toward outside critics. Scientologists have filed scores of lawsuits against skeptical journalists, dissident former members and Government agencies, which have long suspected the church of being a profit-making counseling outfit and no true religion at all.* These well-publicized tactics have helped Scientology grow to a claimed membership of 3.5 million (TIME, April...