Word: religion
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...moral landscape the immigrant left behind was usually dominated by the spires of one church or perhaps of two churches living in uneasy peace after centuries of bloody contest. He is therefore overwhelmed by the dizzying variety of religion in America, by the churches, sects, subsects and cults that proliferate in a sort of spiritual shopping mall. But he learns to appreciate the fact that a country that can create God in so many images, no matter how eccentric, has never used fire and sword to impose a faith on its citizens...
...ways in which they are changing our nation. A 1981 cover story described the pervasive Hispanic influence in South Florida, and another in 1983 dealt with the new mix of ethnic groups in Los Angeles. The subject, however, encompasses areas as diverse as education, culture, food, business, religion, indeed every aspect of our lives. The more TIME's editors examined immigration today, the more they concluded that it represented a change of historic dimensions. For this reason, they have chosen to devote virtually an entire issue to the subject. This format has been used only three times in the past...
Wanda: I'm surprised you don't have a bit more sympathy for her, Ralph. Actually, she's rather conservative. She doesn't think married people should fool around. She says people should keep the rules of their religion and should feel guilty when they do rotten things. That's enough to set her apart from a good many people in the sex-advice business. She doesn't even think people should have sex on the first date...
...arguments were complex and painful. The Quinlans' lawyer argued that Karen had a constitutional right to die, based on both freedom of religion and the right to privacy, that it would be cruel and unusual punishment to keep her alive "after the dignity, beauty, promise and meaning of earthly life have vanished." A court-appointed guardian for Karen countered that the parents had no right to propose what amounted to euthanasia. The doctors' lawyer claimed that no court could determine whether or not Karen might yet recover. The state attorney general also felt obliged to intervene and sided with...
Publications on sixties-style spirtuality, religion and the occult can be found at Shambhala Booksellers (58 JFK), Sky Light Books (111 Mt. Auburn St.) and the Dawn Horse Bookstore (99 Mt. Auburn St.) For a more classical selection of religious titles there's The Thomas More Book Shop (next to Harvard University Press in Holyoke Center...