Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student says he recently talked to a faculty member about writing a paper which would discuss the role of religion in psychoanalysis by comparing the writings of Sigmund Freud, an atheist, with the work of other psychoanalysts. The student says his professor told him the topic was just not empirical enough. Instead, "she suggested I send a questionnaire to psychoanalysts and just ask them about their beliefs," the students says...
...Questions I couldn't figure out: "What is my religion?" Does that mean what is my religious background or what do I believe in or both? What if I believe in several different things or none at all? "House's architechtural style"? This is one of the choices under the section about why you chose your House. Is this referring to the I-hate-Mather-because-it-is-ugly school of thought or does it mean a preference for large rooms...
Anthropologist Stan Binstead is en route from New England to the African bush to search for a lion-worshiping cult. In London a friend dismisses the sect as "just an old-fashioned protection racket." Stan insists it could be the start of a new religion. Ordinarily, the safari would also enable Stan to indulge his favorite pastime, philandering, but his drab wife Millie insists on coming along. In Rachel Ingalls' tale of transformations, the ill-used wife falls in love with a dashing game warden who is believed to possess the qualities of the lion he once killed...
...most erudite scholars of one of the most cerebral of all the world's philosophies, he has a gift for reducing his doctrine to a core of lucid practicality, crystallized in the title of his 1984 book, Kindness, Clarity and Insight (Snow Lion Press). "My true religion," he has said, "is kindness...
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