Word: religiousity
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The President was visibly excited on the ride out to the airport and obviously engaged during the immense welcome ceremony the next day. The contrast between the swaggering born-again Texan and the cerebral Catholic scholar seems stark. Indeed, there is plenty to separate them, particularly their views of the...
'Some of them were sympathetic with these lawbreakers, some refused to battle for political or national or sectarian or religious reasons.' MAJOR GENERAL ABDUL-KARIM KHALAF, an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman, on the 1,300 Iraqi soldiers and policemen who were dismissed for either deserting or refusing to fight during...
That was partly because of the arrival of influences from outside, especially Italy. As his name tells you, El Greco (the Greek) wasn't a product of Spain at all. He was a meteor that fell there. He was born on Crete in 1541 and made his way to Spain...
Another import from Italy was the still life, and some of the most haunting canvases in this show are the paintings by Juan Sánchez Cotán. His practice was not so much to present as to isolate a few vegetables and pieces of fruit on a shelf or suspend...
But Paul Waldau, the director of the Tufts Veterinary School Center for Animals and Public Policy and an expert on animals and religion, argues that it can also come from a misunderstanding of religious traditions. He notes that many preachers point to the passage in Genesis where God grants man...