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...Locals have turned to less orthodox methods. According to one popular story, the Lapindo drilling may have angered a spirit living in a tree near the eruption site. Such beliefs have an enduring appeal in this part of Indonesia, where religion is a syncretic mix of Islam and animism, and Lusi has drawn mystics from Bali and Borneo, who have sacrificed chickens, monkeys and even a cow to mollify the upset spirit. The government's engineering team has tried similar tactics; a spokesman says the group has hired diviners to pray for rain to wash the mud away...
...Harvard, Page says he started as a Comparative Religion concentrator, but eventually transferred to the History department to focus on the roots of early Christianity. He attended services at Memorial Church about once a month, but says he never felt a strong connection...
Chiara Condi ’08, the chair of the committee that organized the event, said she was pleased that “someone who works on literature can discuss and find points of agreement with someone who works on science and someone who works on religion...
...trying to make a case for why I should believe in the Bible,” she recalls. SIMPLY NOT PROFESSIONALReligion professor Peter J. Gomes believes that solicitation is not the way to interest students in various religious practices. “Most students don’t discover religion through the history of the school, or the churches in the square,” he said in March 2006. “They discover it either through other students or in the course of their studies.”Although Harvard Chaplains, the umbrella group for clergy at Harvard...
...crowd nature of the event, some tasks involved working with others. At one point in the throwdown, dancers were instructed to look for a familiar face—Moses, who then lead them in a conga line. With limited interpersonal interaction and intellectual references to art and religion, the party was a success for those who made the T ride. For those who didn’t (after all, getting to Faneuil Hall requires not only going into Boston, but changing trains!), remember that all it takes is an iPod and charisma to start your very own silent dance party...