Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...none seems impressed with the relative abundance or dearth of his followers. Most of the members, especially the younger men like Mumma, Blanning, and Schneider, seem satisfied to influence and be influenced by the great ecumenical, theological, and social changes that are pushing their religions into the modern secular world. The number of other people who might be drawn into the excitement seems almost immaterial to them, just so the excitement is there for them and the few students who actively seek...
...scholarly study of religion, shorn of both catechism and clericalism, is fast becoming a major subject in secular U.S. colleges and universities. Two decades ago, only a dozen state-supported campuses had full-fledged religion programs; elsewhere, religion was usually nothing more than the Bible as literature, taught by English professors. Now, says Cyrus Pangborn, head of Rutgers' religion department, "universities recognize that the study of religion is as respectable a discipline as philosophy or sociology...
...least 75% of the nation's four-year colleges have religion courses; more than 20% of U.S. state schools have separate religion departments. Princeton, a Presbyterian-founded school that is now as secular as any state university, started a religion program in 1946 with one teacher, three courses and 70 curious students. Today the department has 14 professors, 20 courses, and an average enrollment of more than 1,000. At Iowa, which set up a pioneering religion department in 1927, courses now attract 3,500 of the university's 16,000 students. The 1½-year-old religion...
...Pauw's plight differed from Berrigan's in that he had openly challenged church policy and conciliar directives, whereas Berrigan had embarrassed his superiors in a secular matter. But both cases showed that priests are much like privates when it comes to higher orders...
...aggressive, dedicated, militant laity. Escrivá wanted to create, much as Ignatius Loyola had done with his Society of Jesus in the 16th century, spiritual shock troops to rekindle the true spirit of Christianity within the church. But instead of retiring into monasteries, he felt, men with a secular calling as well as a sacred one should be able to follow both at once. The solution: in addition to vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, a man would pledge to God all his professional talents...