Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HRIDF is also appealing to the faculty. C. Peter Timmer, Black Professor of Agriculture and Business, Stanley H. Hoffmann, Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, and Diana L. Eck, professor of Hindu religion, have agreed to write letters to their colleagues on behalf of the HRIDF...
Five faculty member-graduate student pairs recently nabbed mentorship grants, first initiated this spring, to offer courses on narrowly focused topics ranging from religion to economics...
...RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE" usually implies an epiphany of sorts, an experience profound and electric. At least so it was in the pastoral world before the Church and Billy Graham fused with MTV, but a modern, urban brush with religion--or rather, its proselytes--can be a queasy, exploitive experience. Twice this semester I've been spiritually solicited, and the encounters have left me feeling cynical and defensive...
...heard. In this case, the Contras are the minority. The protesters could have spoken during the question and answer period. They could have had talks of their own. They believe in their cause. They are fighting for freedom in Nicaragua--freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from fear and freedom from poverty--and that is good. What they need to understand is that they can't bring about freedom in Nicaragua by suppressing those very same freedoms at home. Jee-Hye Park...
...Harvard group also visited the families of prisoners of conscience, who are imprisoned in the Soviet Union "because of their desire for freedom of religion," said Shoshana M. Robinson '86. Fastenberg said the group smuggled in kosher food, Hebrew books, and religious articles for the prisoners of conscience...