Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feeling good is a religion, its cathedral is Esalen. The nerve center of the counterculture, the cradle of Gestalt therapy, the inspiration for a thousand adult-education courses (with the emphasis often on adult), the Esalen Institute, perched on the windswept cliffs of Big Sur, Calif., along one of the loveliest stretches of unreal estate in the world, has long been the Platonic model of an Aquarian think tank. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, it has also become a symbol for the beauty, and something of the folly, of the peculiarly American belief that perfection is just a day away...
...unanimously overturning Hand's decision, the three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Appeals Court in Atlanta sidestepped the issue of whether secular humanism is a religion. Even assuming that it were a religion, wrote Appellate Judge Frank Johnson Jr., the plaintiffs had failed to show that the books promoted secular humanism. The information in the books, Johnson argued, was "essentially neutral in its religious content." Hand had also maintained that the history and social studies texts had been drained of virtually all mentions of the role of religion in society. That may be true, Johnson & responded...
...other way." Appeals to the Supreme Court are planned. But only two months ago the high court ruled 7 to 2 that Louisiana could not require public schools to teach "creation science." With last week's two new losses, the Fundamentalist strategy of using constitutional cases to restore religion to the school curriculum looks to be in tatters. "These two are the last of the coordinated and systematic attacks by a politicized Fundamentalist movement," said Ira Glasser of the American Civil Liberties Union, which helped win the Alabama case. "There aren't a large number of avenues open to them...
...Fundamentalists may have made one enduring point. The Alabama case helped dramatize the extent to which many textbooks have been purged not merely of religious dogma but also of references to the role of religion in history. "The textbook manufacturers are going to be calling in consultants to see what they should be doing about this," predicted Law Professor Michael McConnell of the University of Chicago. "The consequence is going to be a more balanced approach." Deciding how to teach the historical facts of religion without promoting its tenets is a delicate task. Nonetheless, it is one that a nation...
...crucial to John Paul' s campaign to restore church discipline. But a TIME poll shows that most Catholics, while respecting their Pontiff, disagree with him on a number of key moral issues. -- Cities that will be host to the visit agonize about logistical problems, protests and tacky commercialism. See RELIGION...