Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt at introducing a sectarian, doctrinaire approach to religion at Harvard would be inconsistent with the University's secular traditions...
Protestant Scotford thinks that Protestantism is moving toward a "sense of belonging to an inclusive movement." The 1 emphasis is slowly shifting "from the sectarian part to the ecumenical whole.[But] Protestant unity needs to be dramatized in such a fashion that the man on the street will forget about the 'warring sects,' which exist mainly in the past and in Catholic propaganda, and will see the universal ties by which we are united...
...dissidents were no fiery-eyed hotheads, but the most conservative, high-church wing of the Anglican Church-the Anglo-Catholics. Increasingly disturbed over what they consider a dangerous drift toward collaboration with the sectarian "free churches" (Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists, etc.), they have been quietly protesting for years at such unity symptoms as the proposed Chapel of Unity in the plans for rebuilding Coventry Cathedral. Last week's service was something more than the customary soft-voiced protest...
...Jersey justices held that readings from the Old Testament are religious but not "sectarian." Moreover, the New Jersey court thought the readings were a pretty sound idea: "It is not necessary that the state should be stripped of religious sentiment . . . We are at a crucial hour in which it may behoove our people to conserve all of the elements which have made our land what...
...Freedom Foundation is a "non-political, non-sectarian organization" whose aim is to make awards for "contributions toward a better understanding of freedom." This foundation recently made over 800 awards to groups and individuals all over the nation. Many of these went to worthy speakers and organizations, like General Eisenhower, Charles E. Wilson, and the Crusade for Freedom, but some very poor choices weakened the whole program. Too many awards were made solely on the basis of "Americanism...