Word: religion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After almost three years of work, researchers studying the interplay between religion and environmental ethics will present their findings to the United Nations this fall...
...that matter. For them--and probably for many more people in America and elsewhere--the Beverly Hills of the television show is reality: everyone can wear nice clothes, there is little crime, no politics and no taxes, serious problems rarely arise and every day is eventful. Race and religion are never an issue, and everyone lives in a multi-story house with a yard, a garage and a pet or two. People don't die, they move to France...
...year the nation paves over an area the size of Delaware; the average North American and his house and car emit 3.5 tons of carbon annually, 20 times the output of the average Costa Rican. Cut consumption instead of births? Hopeless; consumption "is deep in our bones, the way religion was deep in the bones of your average 14th century peasant...
...Religion professor Elaine Pagels' 1995 book The Origin of Satan has been floating around a nearby library in recent days, as though the people of Lane County were searching its pages for answers. "What fascinates us about Satan is the way he expresses qualities that go beyond what we ordinarily recognize as human," Pagels writes. "...In his frustrated rage he mirrors aspects of our own confrontations...
...with a heart-wrenching rendition of "Over the Rainbow." Ever since her groundbreaking and soul-churning first album, Little Earthquakes, she has captured the attention of nearly everyone, from emotionally tormented souls and the most critical of music critics. Her quirky, often abrasive songs unabashedly confront sex, heartache and religion without whining or spewing out popmusic poetry, a la Jewel...