Word: religion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Katherine Anne Murphy '01, a history and literature concentrator, says she was one of the lucky ones. She was able to enroll in a seminar she had been planning to take all year, Heimert's English 71, "The Literature of American Religion...
...achieve this however, all embrace of any tradition of faith was utterly abandoned. Today, Harvard's only official religion is one of tolerance, diversity and multiculturalism. The "real stuff," that is, the original truths that opened the university to all and gave these three words moral force, are left to the students to seek, to find and to cherish...
...where is God then? In the last-minute prayers we silently utter before turning the pages of fresh blue books? In the invocation that begins graduation? In the department of religion and the Divinity School? If you want to find God at Harvard, look to her students. Look to religious groups on campus. A joyfully vibrant bouquet of groups enriches the Harvard experience for many, ranging from the Harvard Radcliffe Christian Fellowship to the Islamic Society, from the Baha'i Association to Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel...
...accessible to undergraduates. Over the years he has consistently scored high on the CUE guide ratings, and many of us have had the great privilege of learning from him. He is always well-prepared, entertaining and enlightening. He gives lucid lectures drawing from a variety of fields, including religion and literature...
...Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America (Basic Books; 707 pages; $32.50) Kevin Phillips fetches back 3 1/2 centuries for a complex, ingeniously woven explanation. His thesis, mostly persuasive, is that the English-speaking world prospered as it has because in three internecine conflicts (the English Civil Wars of the 17th century, the 18th century's American Revolution, and the 19th century's American Civil War) it hammered itself into new political, cultural and religious shapes that gave the Anglo cousinhood both energy and stability: "Broadly, the result was to uphold political liberties, commercial progress, technological inventiveness...