Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this brief but dense book, Handlin and his wife tackle issues of power, space, family relations, conceptions of rights and religion in pre-revolutionary America, and throughout, a thousand little anecdotes from every colony and every time illustrate their points...
...Fine Arts tutorial on Chinese figure painting which he leads, Wu Hung has adopted this method of free discussion and exchange. "Communication is my religion, my ideology," he says. "If I really believe in any one thing, that...
...contact, let alone that the U.S. was supplying Iran with arms, some cover for Jacobsen's release had to be found. Waite and his mission provided the necessary public appearance, and it is doubtful that anyone else could have done so, since Waite, as a nonpolitical man of religion, has the trust of all parties involved, including the kidnapers. One Israeli official refers to Waite as the "cellophane wrapping" around hostage releases. Says he: "You cannot deliver a gift package unwrapped. That is why there will be no more hostage releases until he returns to the region...
...There's a sense of vulnerability and terror, of a state of siege on the part of minorities," said John Grayson, an assistant professor of religion at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley...
...Departments which sent the most concentrators into public service: Social Studies (6 out of 69); Comparative Study of Religion (2 of 11); and Government...