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Already a member of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, lovely Candida is also enrolled in an evangelical sect called Pilgrim Zeal, which has promised her a trip to their holy of holies: Minneapolis, Minn. Candida races about the islands with the enraptured but platonic Henry (her only proviso: "We must not make a baby!"). She involves him in punching a local union leader in the jaw and horsewhipping an editor. The timid colonial government claps Henry into jail and ships him off as a bundle for Britain...
Occupation Complex. History has left some psychological scars on the Shah's 20 million subjects. After centuries of conquest, Iran has a kind of occupation complex, vividly exemplified by a tenet of its Shi'ite sect of Islam, which holds that a man may legitimately disavow his religion in time of danger. ''Deep in the Iranian mind," says one Middle East expert, "lies the conviction that nothing ever happens in Iran except by the desire of a foreign power." Many of the middle-class Teheran intellectuals and business men who most heatedly denounced the recent election...
...Stupa. Johnson's recent work (see color) shows how far he has gone in breaking new ground while finding imaginative uses for old forms. The haystack-shaped shrine, set in a Grecian court in New Harmony, Ind., was built as a memorial to the Harmonists, a German Separatist sect that assured its own extinction by faithfully practicing celibacy. But to Johnson it suggests the stave churches of Norway and the stupa forms of India. Without its name, the Nuclear Reactor Building in Israel could be a medieval cloister, topped by a huge, 20-sided tower that seems to change...
...Sacred Congregation of Rites is considering other changes in the baptismal liturgy. Under the old formula, codified in 1614, the priest called upon ex-pagans to "hold idols in horror, reject images," ex-Jews to "hold in horror and reject Hebrew superstition," ex-Moslems to "reject the wicked sect of infidelity," and ex-Protestants to "hold in horror wicked heresy, reject the nefarious sect of impious [name of denomination]." To make things easier for converts, much of this language may soon be toned down...
...Speaking in tongues is no longer a phenomenon of some odd sect across the street," the Living Church (Episcopal) editorialized. "It is in our midst, and it is being practiced by clergy and laity who have stature and good reputation in the Church ... Its widespread introduction would jar against our esthetic sense and some of our more strongly entrenched preconceptions. But we know that we are members of a Church which definitely needs jarring ... If God has chosen this time to dynamite what Bishop Sterling of Montana has called 'Episcopalian respectabilianism,' we know no more terrifyingly effective explosive...