Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone "knows" about Islam is that it prohibited artists from painting the human figure. In fact, this was not wholly true. The Koran had nothing to say on the matter. Prophetic tradition banished figures from the walls of mosques, for fear of idolatry; but there was no rule against secular figure painting. Therefore, the decoration of all the great mosques of Islam was nonfigurative, but there was nothing heretical about the secular miniatures−of astrological images, courtly scenes or scientific inventions−represented in this show. Arab culture was pragmatic. Almost everything the Italian Renaissance knew of medicine...
...priest for four decades, Jadot, now 65, was born into a prominent Belgian family of engineers, but gave up certain secular success for a priestly vocation. As chief chaplain to Belgium's colonial forces in the Congo, a friend recalls, he learned to walk a tightrope, quietly encouraging Congolese independence while the army steadfastly opposed it. In 1968, Pope Paul made him a titular archbishop and tapped him to be a papal envoy, first to Thailand, then to several posts in West Africa...
Though all foreign correspondents have been expelled from the country, a few more details about the men who engineered the coup began to emerge. Several had been dismissed from the army for anti-Indian prejudice and were believed to be more militantly Moslem than Mujib's secular regime. Like many other officers, they were fearful of the growing power of Mujib's special security force, the 25,000-man Rakkhi Bahini. They may have been alarmed by reports that Mujib was planning to put the armed forces under control of the ruling Awami League party. They were also...
...ordination by filing complaints with the New York State Division of Human Rights and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The complaints, which add a new dimension to the ongoing dispute, charge Bishop Cole with discriminating against her because of her sex. Schiess's suits contend that the secular laws permitting a church to practice discrimination in employment are meant to exclude only persons who do not share its beliefs. The ban on women as priests, which stems from centuries of tradition, is not a belief, she argues. The government agencies are likely to be reluctant to take action...
Schiess's decision to accuse her bishop of sex discrimination through secular channels is likely to do the women's cause little good within the church, and it could well create a backlash. Many delegates to next year's convention, like St. Paul in / Corinthians 6:1, may take a dim view of filing a suit against a Christian "brother...