Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gives his version of the events, with Hardy going first and last; like the famous Japanese short story and film Rashomon, their accounts do not quite measure up with each other. Playwright Brian Friel, who is undergoing an inexplicable vogue among the Harvard thespian set, handles the theme of religion as a divine con game with much less sophistication than Flannery O'Conner did in her novel Wise Blood...
...sociology: much of Durkheim's work is devoted to proving that sociology is a separate field that cannot be incorporated into the existing ones of psychology, philosophy and history. His work, and most sociological scholarship, can be considered to contain fixed political perspectives in many ways. It considers religion, for example, a social phenomenon rather than a divinely inspired necessity...
...Thank you all. Remember God loves you regardless of your race or religion--yes, white, Caucasian, Christian, or fundamentalist, you are blessed in His eyes. I trust you won't let the devil Satan restrain you from generous contributions. And don't forget that donations of three thousand dollars or more will receive a free calculator and an autographed photograph of me shaking hands with president Botha of South Africa...
...Calvary/ St. George's Episcopal Church, which she has attended since 1982. It is not the first time she has collaborated with Ostling. In 1977-78, years that saw a dramatic upsurge in U.S. Evangelical Protestantism and the death of two Popes, she was the reporter-researcher in the Religion section...
...life if backers did not send in millions. Then came Jim Bakker, admitting he paid heavy "blackmail" to cover up sexual sin. As fellow TV Stars Jimmy Swaggart and Jerry Falwell joined the controversy, a bystander, Pat Robertson, stood to lose the most from the Evangelicals' questionable deeds. See RELIGION...