Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tired of Plympton Street head over to The Book Case (42 Church St.) Post cards and junk gifts fill the top floor and a labyrinth of used volumes make up the basement. Look in the six-by-six foot "Room A" for occult books, "Room B" for religion, and go to the store's Annex (33 Church St.) if you don't like reading in the dark. The Pangloss Bookshop (65 Mt. Auburn St.) is another sure bet for cheap used books, especially in the social sciences...
...desire to reintroduce prayer in the public schools, the bill's chief sponsor, State Senator Donald Holmes, replied, "No, I did not have no other purpose in mind." That, said Stevens, "is not consistent with the established principle that the government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion," allowing an individual "to select any religious faith or none...
Former Solicitor General Rex Lee, whose office argued in favor of the Alabama law, expressed "great surprise," given that the court seemed to be abandoning its recent inclination to "accommodate" religion. It had done so, for example, in cases upholding legislative chaplains and government- sponsored Nativity scenes. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's sixth vote concurring with the majority was another shock to conservatives. Her failure to support a more pro-prayer position, as did Dissenters Warren Burger, William Rehnquist and Byron White, is "staggering," said Dan Alexander, president of the Mobile County school board at the time Jaffree sued...
Just this semester, a committee led by Diana L. Eck, professor of Religion and Indian Studies, "endorsed the principle" of the Foundation and "gave it legitimacy," Gomes adds...
...waged a lifelong inquiry into ways of reconciling Darwin's theory of evolution with his own conviction that transcendental religious experience was a "biological fact"; of a stroke suffered two weeks ago, only two days before he was to receive formally the $185,000 Templeton Prize for progress in religion; in Oxford, England...