Word: religione
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Despite Faust’s contemporary focus, the baccalaureate ceremonies did not lack for ritual or religion. Cap-and-gown-clad seniors entered the church in procession and heard several of their classmates read passages from Confucius, the Bible, Hindu scripture, and the Quran...
...story represents a peculiar confluence of Eastern religion and Western science, as Taylor’s spiritual state was achieved not as a result of meditation or prayer, but through the literal destruction of a portion of her brain. Her journey is, in many ways, the ultimate display of materialism—even the ineffable condition of religious ecstasy can be created by neuro-chemical manipulation. The link between the physical and metaphysical serves as a powerful reminder that even the things about ourselves that we consider the most fundamental—our beliefs, our selves, and our basic conceptions...
...with him. IT is found in motion, in the “night-cars” which whisk across the Continent both in Kerouac’s novel and in Howl. IT is no more obscure than absolution, and no more mythical than the sacraments and symbols of any religion. What is new about the San Francisco approach is “anarchy...
...What occurred was an intangible change,” Tribe said. “It should be measured in the freedom from religion people enjoy, not the amount of liquor people consume...
...Blacks coming out of the '60s were no longer ashamed of being black people, nor did they have to apologize for being Christian. Because many persons in the African-American community were teasing us, Christians, of being a white man's religion," Wright told PBS' Bill Moyers earlier this year...