Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab case, self-contempt has not been a goad to positive achievement, as it sometimes can be, but rather to self-destruction. Today it is often forgotten that Nasser's 1952 revolution began as the most promising event in modern Arab history. Here was a completely secular government devoid of Islamic hobbles, one that stopped barefoot wretches from sleeping in the Cairo streets and moved them into high-rise apartments. Here was a leader who asserted that the Koran could be made compatible with "Arab socialism," who emancipated women, started birth control, planned the Aswan Dam, produced nuclear energy...
Since the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, in A.D. 70, Conservative and Orthodox Jews have beseeched God four times a week to "renew our days as they once were" - a plea for the restoration of the Temple. Although Zionism was largely a secular movement, one of its sources was the prayers of Jews for a return to Palestine so that they could build a new Temple...
...service to their religion, Orthodox Jews dominated Israeli society and lawmaking from the first, are responsible for the many restrictions and proscriptions (no public bus service on the Sabbath, the refusal of restaurants to serve milk and meat at the same meal) that make Israel a sort of secular theocracy...
...election of a Moslem to India's highest, though largely ceremonial, post would have pleased Jawaharlal Nehru. As India's first Prime Minister, he insisted that religion and politics should be separated in the newly independent country, hoped that India would develop into a secular, Western-style nation rather than a religion-centered Hindu homeland. Fittingly, it was his daughter who engineered the election. Selecting Husain as her candidate, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi argued that other countries would not believe India's claim to ethnic and religious impartiality unless a Moslem could become head of state...
...fashioned businessmen blamed Opus Dei when they lost their clients to brash young Opus Dei competitors. With their air of enthusiastic self-righteousness, Opus Dei members often irritate both laity and clergy-particularly since in many areas they accomplish more than the church. With their insistence that secular life should be Christianized rather than Christianity secularized, they raise inevitable suspicions in some quarters that they favor a practical union of church and state...