Word: secularization
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...atheist and future medical professional, I plan to dutifully care for all my patients equally, the religious and the secular. I will be a present and fervent listener at the time of a grim diagnosis, attempting to understand my patient’s fears/desires and offering guidance for the future. And, yes, I will even pray with a patient should...
...that person for my patients. Does this make my contribution to patient care less meaningful or in any way less effective? Maybe for some patients; though most will find spiritual comfort in others. And perhaps still other patients will value the advice and life perspective of their secular physician. Even though he never took a course on religion at the medical school...
...religion stretches beyond academia, says Mark U. Edwards, Jr., associate dean for academic administration at HDS. It enters the public sphere through the debates about intelligent design and stem cell research as well as through bestselling books such as “The God Delusion” by secular scientist Richard Dawkins...
Amanda L. Shapiro ’08, president of the Harvard Secular Society, says she is disappointed that the requirement was nixed and that she hopes to see “more support for inquiry” between the two camps, though she doesn’t believe one group should cater to the other...
...tale's main protagonist. "Of course, we have a separation of State and Church," Putin said during a visit to a Russian Orthodox monastery in January 2004. "But in the people's soul they're together." The resurgence of a Church in open disdain of the secular Constitution is only likely to exacerbate divisions in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious Russia...