Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suggestions would undoubtedly lead to a judicially prescribed religious orthodoxy, with the potential for discrimination against believers of any persuasion. To guard against just this eventuality, the Supreme Court has declared that "no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in matters of politics, nationalism, religion, or other matter of opinion." Alan D. Viard, GSAS Bill O'Keefe, Kennedy School Stephen Sally, GSAS
...spring of 1985, a faculty committee headed by Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, completed a four-year review of the Foundation. That committee published a host of recommendations--calling for a full-time director, increased student and faculty input, and more adequate space for minority student groups, among them--and aimed at increasing the Foundation's presence...
...BEEN said that the problem with the fundamentalists' argument was that it complained against un-Christian, as opposed to specifically anti-Christian education. However, the most startling argument put forth in the case is that the school system teaches its own religion, "secular humanism...
...first double-take, calling secular humanism a religion seems a contradiction in terms. Here the fundamentalists, of all people, have made "secular" and "religious" interchangeable ideas, rather than antonyms. By putting them on a par, the fundamentalists betray their real agenda: not just sheltering their religious beliefs, but building a shelter of intolerance against a whole range of other values and social practices...
Harish Kavirajan '89, who is planning to take Washbrook's class next semester, says, "Most Indian studies courses at Harvard are literature and language, with a few in religion. The history of India doesn't really exist here, and there is a definite need for the historical perspective...