Word: religione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...14th century France, when the Black Plague was turning Europe into a mass graveyard, Noses tells the story of one Father Flote, a priest with revolutionary ideas about the role of religion in people's lives. Flote, played with amazing grace by Michael Starr, rebels against the penitents and clergy who argue that the plague is God's punishment for humanity's sins. The only way to save the world, say the penitents, is through pain--self-inflicted or otherwise...
...officials decided to shoot segments for the show at Harvard because of the Divinity School's work on issues relating to women and religion, public policy and progressive attitudes towards the study of religion, according to "Today" show producer Marlo Bendau...
Gardner said that NBC's "Religion in America" series, which first aired on Monday, focuses on religion in the 1990s the roles of women, Blacks and Native Americans in religious organizations and the relationship between religion and public policy...
...sociologist of religion Emile Durkheim once said that the contrast between the sacred and the profane is the widest and deepest of all contrasts that the human mind can make. In retrospect, in the churchier precincts of the memory, the election of 1960 has, for some, a numinous glow. The election was the prologue to everything that happened after. It was the American politics before the fall. Its protagonists went on to their high, dramatic fates. Perhaps part of the magic of that race is that we know the tale to its dramatic completion...
...Harvard is more mature. Today's students form associations based on mutual interests, not mutual friends. Even in a decade known for its student apathy, their projects last beyond the next day's hangover. Sex, religion, social class and ethnic origin may influence their membership, but rarely if ever do they cause anyone's exclusion...