Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state Equal Rights Amendment if approved would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as race, religion or national origin. It is sad that the amendment is necessary, but its passage would speed the process of reversing long-standing patterns of discrimination...
...against abortion. Moreover, Carter is a Southern Baptist, and ethnics view that denomination suspiciously because of its anti-Catholicism in years past. Ford is also a devout Protestant (Episcopalian), but many ethnics feel more comfortable with him than with Carter because the President does not appear to make his religion so paramount...
Attracted by this bizarre landscape, some of the first Christians in Anatolia came here to practice their religion in seclusion. They must have been gratified by the ease with which the soft stone could be hollowed out, for they fashioned homes for themselves in the rocks. Later, in the seventh and eighth centuries, they were joined by great numbers of Byzantines seeking refuge from their Arab brethren. Invasions were nothing new to Anatolia. From the days of the Hittites, Hurrites, and Assyrians, its history is a colorful, if rather repetitive, tale of conquerors surging from west to east, and from...
...belt that is prospering; it is the Bible Belt. Religion has a powerful effect in maintaining the humanity, civility and cohesiveness of a region. It teaches people that there are higher values than efficiency and moneymaking...
...diffused largely by ethnic differences that separate the mass of immigrants who fueled industrial development). Northern working class people escaped into privatism and a waxing standard of living; white Southerners, living in a perpetually underdeveloped region, had no such luxury--aside from racist rage, they escaped into tradition and religion. Fundamentals millenarian cults and hysterical revival meetings in one way, opened outlets for the frustration of feeling dumb and oppressed...