Word: secularization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...range from atheists to Zoroastrians. We shouldn’t be afraid to talk about it.” Jessamin H. Birdsall ’10, an audience member, called the discussions “enlightening.” “Oftentimes in a secular university, issues of faith get pushed to the side,” Birdsall added. “I’m really excited to see Harvard recognizing faith in this setting.” The day also featured Washington Post journalist Sally Quinn as the keynote speaker. Along with Jon Meacham?...
...both the primary and general elections. Castellanos, an émigré from Cuba and an IOP Fellow this semester, praised the bottom-up organization of the Obama campaign and its effectiveness in mobilizing support. He dubbed Obama’s grassroots call for change a “secular religion.” But the greatest factor in Obama’s favor, Castellanos said, is the financial crisis that has swept Wall Street over the past few weeks. While the Republican National Convention and the nomination of Sarah Palin moved the McCain campaign in a more...
...dictators; the ever widening gaps between the rich and the hardworking common people are a curse not only in India but the world over - including in so-called communist countries like China, with their cheap slave labor [Aug. 25]. Maybe in the future the world will get accountable, secular democracies, and the U.S. and U.K. will lead the world as role models. Until then, the world must suffer from the sins of profiteers. Vijay Bansal, WARRINGTON, ENGLAND...
...ground with scandals and a disastrous military campaign in Lebanon in 2006. It remains to be seen whether Kadima's next leader, be it Livni or Mofaz, can keep the vision of a centrist party of pragmatic peace alive in a country so polarized between right and left, secular and religious, Jew and Arab...
...believe Sarah would not live in a fragmented world,” and adding that her worldview, “that really only the Bible and the relationship with Jesus opens up,” could not simply be ‘marginalized’ in the interest of secular leadership...