Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Karmapa, who swept into the Center for World Religion in a limousine flanked by a police escort, told about 20 reporters at a 5 p.m. news conference that his religion emphasizes the "impermanence of physical existence," the "permanence of the mind" and "compassion" for others...
Goodness, what a serious matter. Unless college can deliver a better pay-out, liberal education is bound to suffer the fate of other respectable but low-return activities like religion, love and honesty. Parents will stop investing in their children's education and shift to soybean futures. Students will abandon college classrooms for brokerage offices. Professors of economics will have to go to work...
...restrict any person from the free practice of religion is unconstitutional, he added...
...writers figure that Rome succumbed to outer Goths and inner decadence. McNeill maintains that a series of epidemics-measles, smallpox, plague-so depleted the empire's population that by the middle of the 3rd century A.D. it was no longer able to resist the barbarians. Disease, rather than religion, also lay at the roots of India's caste system, according to McNeill; its rigid rules developed as the country's Aryan invaders sought to protect themselves from the diseases carried by the people whose lands they had overrun...
Under the rubric of "What is the Christian message?" Professor Kung addressed such topics as religion and modern man, Christian humanism, the compatibility of Christianity and world religions and the present state of ecumenical dialogue between the Protestant and Roman Catholic church...