Word: secularize
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...Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine,” said there was “probably some other factor” that caused the correlation because subjects did not differ in lung function when they entered the study. Amanda L. Shapiro ’08, president of the Harvard Secular Society, said she worries that the study may be interpreted as “proof of a higher power, or, more specifically, proof of God’s work through participation in organized religion.” Maselko wrote in an e-mail, however, that researchers intend for people...
...view—he suggested that Harvard should produce prophets and spiritual leaders that would satisfy “the feeling of religious need [that] is abroad in our people today”—what Stimson said is a kind of metaphor for modern secular society. Contemporary society has attempted to do away with religion, but because it cannot find anything to replace religion with, it has been confronted over and over by the resurrected hydra. So the void remains...
...enterprise to a very large degree intertwined with a more general understanding of culture and history. The general education proposal says as much; according to it, the Reason and Faith requirement’s aim “is to help students understand the interplay between religious and secular institutions, practices, and ideas.” We do not believe that religious ideas in particular should be given a platform greater than other social and political forces, and bracketing these ideas as such gives them preeminence incommensurate with their proper place in understanding the modern world. That...
...Muslim world, parts of the Gulf, and Pakistan; a similar covering is known as the burqa in Afghanistan.) I come from a Muslim family and have spent years living in various Muslim communities around the Middle East. Every single Muslim female friend I've had, from pious to secular, veiled to vixen, has been unable to befriend, or even hold a proper conversation with a niqab-wearer. The young son of a close friend, raised in a large Muslim family in a large Muslim country, calls them "ninja ladies." Covering the face, whether in Yorkshire or Beirut, seems to send...
...other hand, faith-based groups had actually been getting chunks of that money for decades, and the regulations we put in place really didn't tackle the biggest problem facing secular and religious nonprofits. That problem was the general bureaucratic unfriendliness of the Federal Government to small, local organizations--precisely the kind that compassionate conservatives like Bush (and I) thought could do the best job tackling ingrained poverty and hopelessness on the community level. We were supposed to give these small groups their first shot, but without any money, our office was resigned to making mostly symbolic changes...