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...learned to love America as the face of liberty, the palladium of justice, and the embodiment of the ideal of government under law, not under men. This paramount place of Law is etched in Latin above the entrance to our law school; it is our shining national ideal, the religion of America, the essence of the enlightenment that flowed from our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights...
...causing AIDS; similarly, the World Health Organization’s attempts to eradicate polio have run into ethnic and religious barriers in northern Nigeria and parts of India. Thus biological discovery and technology development can be stymied if not coupled with an understanding of political science, anthropology, and religion...
...working, even now, to create a broader program in South Asian languages, cultures, and histories. India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Tibet—all are ever more important to understanding the world in which we live. And for many years, the Study of Religion has operated as a degree-granting Committee without departmental status, patching together faculty and courses from many departments and from the Divinity School. Meanwhile, the energies of religion have hardly subsided in the face of secularism. In fact, the religious traditions of humankind are flourishing in all their diversity, creating worldwide promise and worldwide...
...Diana L. Eck is professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and master of Lowell House...
When Daniel J. Rinehart ’09 proposed to his fiancé Leslie E. Nightingale ’09 last May, his plan did not unfold exactly the way he intended. On their first date their freshman year, Rinehart, a religion concentrator from Northfield, Minn., took Nightingale, a history and literature concentrator from St. Louis, Mo., to the Bunker Hill Monument. So when he decided to ask Nightingale to marry him, that monument seemed like the logical choice for location. This time around, Rinehart decided to take the bus instead of the subway in order to keep the proposal...