Word: secularization
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...lynching, she took her three children and moved in with her mother. She took everything that was valuable to her - photographs and jewelry - because she was afraid the house might get ransacked. It struck me that where she lives is not a stereotypical religious settlement. Givon is basically secular and affluent...
...students and religious groups came up with ingenious ways to protest--and in some instances, defy--the court's decision. For the faithful in the Christian heartland, praying on game night is the latest in a series of new constitutional maneuvers to circumvent laws that they consider to be secular oppression. Already the religious rebellion is organizing into a successful Christian resistance movement of everyday people. After an Alabama judge was sued for refusing to remove the Ten Commandments from his courtroom, Christian groups pushed to have them declared a historical document in several states. Now they hang next...
...right when it comes to the peace process. Shas quit the Cabinet in July because Barak wouldn't advise the party leadership of his plans for the Camp David summit with President Bill Clinton and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Barak's response was to call for a "secular revolution" that would end the Orthodox rabbis' lock on institutions like marriage and allow civil weddings. And though most observers believe Barak was just looking for political leverage, it's clear that the balance of God and power in Israel--always a subtext in political exchanges--is teetering again...
...last month with a prayer and some Scripture, but no one wanted to pounce the moment the first Jewish national candidate mentioned God. That was before he cited George Washington's admonition last week to never suppose that "morality can be maintained without religion"--as if agnostics, atheists and secular humanists are by definition immoral--and called for the nation to renew its dedication to "God and God's purpose...
...just as the old order in the West was giving way to new notions of God, the state and the citizen. His response--a wholesale rejection of modernity--dominated Catholicism for almost a century after his death and continues to color its present. A true reactionary who saw the secular state, and indeed civil rights, as satanic manifestations, he made it difficult for generations of believers to claim intellectual independence or integrity. Says journalist-historian Garry Wills, who savages Pius in his best seller Papal Sins: "He was a disaster, and his influence has been bad ever since...