Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whether or not one chooses to study it academically, practicing religion at Harvard can be a difficult business. Though support can be found within the student groups like Hillel and Catholic Students Association, one sometimes feels that the secular university community considers faith to be incompatible with rationality, pluralism or liberalism...
...result. The E.C., whose subsidies have substantially benefited the local economy, has enjoyed wide popularity in Ireland. All the major secular institutions had urged endorsement of the treaty. Still, in the wake of Denmark's surprising vote, there was concern that Irish enthusiasm might flag. As it was, only a minority voted against...
Robinson went on to become one of Ireland's foremost international lawyers and a politician known for her secular sophistication. Now as the nation's first woman President, she has become a symbol of its European aspirations, as reflected in its resounding vote of approval last week for the Maastricht treaty and integration into the new European Union. But most important, given the largely ceremonial nature of her office, she has become a symbol of what made that vote possible: Ireland's renewed self-confidence and national pride...
Then, last week, the Presbyterian Church (membership: 2.8 million) expressed second thoughts about the pro-choice stand it took even before the Supreme Court did. Presbyterian delegates in Milwaukee said secular law should still allow open access to the procedure. But in terms of personal morality, they rejected abortion for economic reasons and endorsed it only for a grave threat to a mother's physical or mental health, severe physical or mental defect in a fetus, rape or incest. The new policy also acknowledges that many Presbyterians see each life in the womb as "created for a purpose and belonging...
Libenson believes that Harvard needs to focuson including all religions, rather than trying tobe wholly secular while maintaining suchinstitutions as Memorial Church. "[It's bad] ifHarvard institutionalizes one religion or religionin general," he says...