Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been regularly told (whether she believed it or not) that it was the housewife's duty, happiness and fulfillment to maintain a home for her husband and children. From this, certain reassuring (or oppressive) rules followed. Among them: that monogamy is a state blessed by, and based on, religion; that sex inside marriage is sacred, though sinful outside; that it is largely up to a wife to keep her husband from straying and, indeed, to set the moral and spiritual tone of their union. Today, in addition to all the chores of housework-and, increasingly, the additional demands...
...very different principle applies," Bok said. In the first Saudi case he had feared that applicants might be discriminated against on the basis of their religion, but there is no such danger in the Law school gift, he said...
...Religion and the Rise of Capitalism...
...theater, they can put on this elaborate celebration of the way things are, were and will be. There is no groping, little creating and no confusion--simply the acting out of a rite of tradition that never wants change or growth. Maybe this is all right in matters of religion or faith, but in a convention of frivolity there seems to be something the matter with it. Unless it is a matter of something that runs deeper, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with life or theater or the times we live in, even for many people...
...bigotry and domination that plagued Europe in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and obstructed its human experience. Your experiment of building what is now the oldest federal system where human beings and states are equal before the law with no discrimination on the basis of class, national origin, religion and color represents a light that can illuminate the human march toward a better world...