Word: religion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prayer for the Dying hits direct about faith and religion, not subtly or from behind. As O'Nan remarks, "Thematically it's precisely the same as all my other books. It's always about hope and despair." Because the reader senses only through Jake, he hears Jake's internal question explicitly...
Chastened by the reception of a certain red-lettered heroine's heartrending tale, the director of such wide eyed spiritual triumphs as The Mission and City of God--just look at those titles--has gone blackly cynic. In Roland Joffe's twist-filled but flawed new feature, religion serves only to provide a respectable front for the depraved or to highlight its golly-gee practitioners' cluelessness. But that's not the main thrust: In this noir comedy, lust, greed, jealousy, betrayal and just generally people's worst sides stand in mocking contrast to any form of decency (i.e. gullibility...
...store has a religion section, including shelves on various Eastern religions like Hinduism, Islam and Taoism...
...store has a religion section, including shelves on Hinduism, Islam and Taoism...
Incredibly, amid the catcalls of the skeptics, one constituency seems to practice that old-time religion: online traders. These e-buyers--indeed, they are mostly buyers--believe in the Net long-term. We know it was the e-little guys doing the buying because the average size of each trade was well below a thousand shares. What seems flaky to Wall Street seems downright rigorous to e-Main Street...