Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cross-cultural panache. Serpell writes passionately and well about a subject that seems to have fallen between the cracks of specializations. His overview is sweeping and provocative. To wit: in traditional Western thought, God created humans in his own image and animals to serve mankind. This anthropocentric view dominated religion and philosophy for more than 2,000 years, and still exerts a powerful influence. But so do our animal instincts, the cause of psychological conflict and moral ambivalence...
...ridiculed the "bewildering Catch-22 logic" behind the 1985 Aguilar vs. Felton decision forbidding public school teachers to instruct in parochial schools. He remarked that the court's generally high level of neutrality between what he called religion and irreligion (e.g., barring prayer in public schools) would have struck the framers of the Constitution as "bizarre...
...referendum. Such democratic participation is unparalleled in the history of Ethiopia. Once the constitution assumes its final shape, Ethiopia will never again be ruled by the personal absolutism of any one individual or a handful of individuals. There will be no more discrimination according to sex, religion or ethnic origin, no more nepotism or exploitation...
Most striking of all, for this Catholic family whose scion broke the religion bar in presidential politics, Schlossberg is Jewish. The son of a Manhattan textile manufacturer, he is liked by the bride's family not for his ability to garner votes or toss a football but because he is comfortable sitting in the background and learning what others have...
...their suit against the Hawkins County schools, however, the Fundamentalists appear to be on fragile legal ground. Federal Judge Thomas Hull, who is hearing the case without a jury, must find not only that the required readings are a burden on the plaintiffs' freedom of religion but also that there is no overriding governmental interest to justify using the books. In a 1968 case, Epperson vs. Arkansas, the U.S. Supreme Court suggested that it would look with disfavor on attempts by the state to cater to one particular religion. "There is and can be no doubt," the Justices said, "that...