Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many observers hold two related theories about U.S. religion: it is 1) booming, and 2) growing progressively more secular. Sociologist Seymour M. Lipset of the University of California disagrees. While church membership has clearly risen in recent years, Lipset reports in the Columbia University quarterly Forum, there is "no basic trend" in churchgoing: it was 41% of the adult population in an average week of 1939, only 39% in 1950, and 47% in 1957. Other statistics...
...general, says Fromm. "Freud's aim was to found a movement for the ethical liberation of man, a new secular and scientific religion for an elite which was to guide mankind." What happened? His "messianic impulses" struck a response in followers who had no strong religious, political and philosophic convictions, but a hidden need for them. In "the movement" they found everything: "A dogma, a ritual, a leader, a hierarchy, the feeling of possessing the truth, of being superior to the uninitiated...
...also wrote whodunits with his wife (Murder in the Munition Works)] in London. After onetime Prime Minister Clement Attlee was elevated to the peerage, G.D.H. Cole sneeringly wondered how a Laborite could "wish to be so degraded." Wrote New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin last week: "Douglas Cole was a secular saint...
...press of Communist East Germany was cheering what it considered a victory last week. Berlin's Lutheran Bishop Otto Dibelius, gloated a Neues Deutschland editorial, "has blown the retreat" on the issue of permitting Protestant boys and girls to participate in the secular "Youth Dedications" with which the Communists have been trying for the past four years to supplant church confirmations...
...find them?" Marty suggests that Protestantism is insecure because it senses itself to be a minority (although statistically it is not), while Roman Catholicism has assumed a "quasi-majority responsibility" and Judaism continues its "quest for definition." All three are confused in "the presence of the secular, natural, national humanistic religion...