Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SECULAR SOUNDS. Fearing a Fundamentalist backlash, Columbia changed the title of Nick Lowe's 1978 Jesus of Cool album to Pure Pop for Now People...
...Puritans, who began it all, had "a desperate and intolerant wish to cleanse the world of its impurities," editor Lewis Lapham of Harper's has written, and their ambition was to build a New Jerusalem on earth despite all of life's uncertainties. In both spiritual and secular guise, that has been a recurring theme in U.S. history, from the Great Awakening of the early frontier days to the noble experiment of Prohibition...
...Service, which is as hard hit by the recession as any business. The Postal Service has one last chance to push the price up a penny, but it could hardly afford to be the Christmas stamp Grinch. So the two seasonal stamps -- one bearing a madonna, the other a secular winter motif -- will simply read 1991 and sell for whatever price is in effect by then...
...spread of new multicultural perspectives throughout America's schools has taken place without much notice; curriculum revisions, even sweeping ones, do not appear on local ballots. But these are not merely academic disputes. Especially in diverse, secular societies such as the U.S., a shared sense of the past plays a pivotal role in the way values and vision are transmitted from one generation to the next. "History is part of a society's attempt to structure a self-image and to communicate a common identity," points out Eugen Weber, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. "No community...
...nearly 44 years since India became independent, one vision of politics and society has reigned supreme. It interweaves two powerful strands: Congress Party leader Jawaharlal Nehru's legacy of a secular, socialist government; and the nonviolence and religious tolerance exemplified by Mahatma Gandhi, the ascetic Hindu champion. In elections concluded late last week, that tradition faces an unprecedented challenge from a movement that proudly proclaims itself to be the antithesis of what Nehru, and to some extent Gandhi, represented. It rejects the "foreign" influences of Islam, Christianity, capitalism and socialism, and aspires to restore Rama Rajya, a mythical golden...