Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same effect within the Orthodox church as within Soviet society as a whole: conservative "stagnators" and "reformers" are struggling for church control. In addition, some conservatives in Orthodoxy are joining forces with unreconstructed Communists and right-wing nationalists. Their goal: revival of old-style Russian chauvinism, both religious and secular, within the boundaries of the Soviet multinational empire. Rumors are rife in Moscow that the right-wing movement inspired the murder a month ago of Father Alexander Menn, an outstanding church progressive assailed by anti-Semites for his Jewish descent...
...brought on his demission. Diversity and non-orthodoxy are frequently the rule rather than the exception at the 230 U.S. Catholic colleges and universities, especially on sexual issues and on the Pope's adamant opposition to women priests. Indeed, many of the country's diverse Catholic postsecondary schools resemble secular institutions more than purely religious ones...
...hierarchy is urging, and sometimes forcing, wayward priests to seek therapy from private doctors, secular clinics or half a dozen church- affiliated centers. Two of the most respected are the 42-year-old Servants of the Paraclete center, tucked into the remote mountains of New Mexico, and the five-year-old program at St. Luke Institute in Suitland...
...there was more to this faith in the military than simply a psychological longing for security. In Israel at least half the Jewish population practices Judaism in a secular way. These people find no need to assert their Jewishness because they live in Israel. Yet, for them, something has replaced religion--the state itself...
...this era of cynicism, such legendary figures have all but disappeared in the U.S. Martyrdom at an early age was necessary to lift John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X to the status of secular saints. Mandela is unique among heroes because he is a living embodiment of black liberation. Like Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer enjoying their own eulogies from a hiding place in the church, he can bathe in the adulation of a worldwide throng yearning to, if not touch the hem of his garment, at least catch a glimpse of him whirring...