Word: secularization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Suddenly, bleary-eyed students emerge from dorms armed with fistfuls of posters. By 7:02, students in various stages of undress begin to segregate by event. The air is tense, the voices low. The Eleganzians clear their throats and glance at the Rock for a Reason-ians. The Secular Society stands aloof, dour with morning tiredness and atheism...
...featured Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative Roman Catholic writer and speaker, who went head-to-head with preacher-turned-atheist Dan Barker for roughly two hours of discussion on topics ranging from the relationship between science and religion to the ethics of Christianity. Students from the Harvard Secular Society and the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship collaborated to write the questions...
...conversation about the traditions of one of the many religions represented on campus.The Harvard College Interfaith Council organized this culinary evening as the Kickoff Festival for its celebration of the first-ever National Interfaith Awareness Week during mid-April. By collaborating with 12 religious groups and the Harvard Secular Society, the Council works to foster interfaith dialogue among the more than 20 faith-based organizations on campus. A COUNCIL IS BORNThe Interfaith Council was officially established in 2004 as a purely discussion-based group, but didn’t initially generate much enthusiasm, according to current council chair Zeba...
...paintings. Works by El Greco are featured heavily but do not outshine those of his less famous contemporaries. The exhibit gets off to an impressive start in the first room, featuring six works from El Greco. “View of Toledo,” one of his few secular works, depicts the artist’s adopted home in central Spain. El Greco’s heavy application of paint compresses the landscape and creates a personal view of the city that evokes the mystical qualities of his religious works. The portraits in the second room were created...
...friendly," was a corruption of the peace movements as well. All of these occurred before Obama reached puberty - and they helped define the social atmosphere in academic communities like Chicago's Hyde Park, where Obama now lives. For 40 years, the Republican Party has feasted on the secular humanism, feminism, distrust of the military and permissiveness that caricature such communities. For 40 years, the Democratic Party has been burdened by its inability to break free of those stereotypes...