Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prayers. Contemporary day schools are much like Protestant or Roman Catholic private schools. At the Orthodox Manhattan Day School (tuition: $1,000 a year, although 80% of the students have scholarships), the 370 students spend their mornings on religious studies in Hebrew. After a kosher lunch, they turn to secular subjects, taught in English-including science and new math. Standards in the day schools are high; 90% of their graduates qualify for college scholarships...
Under Poling, the Herald generally avoided the theological controversies roiling today's church; Stewart plans to plunge into some of them, possibly even giving space to the new "God is dead" theologians. The Herald will also carry more news, both religious and secular. "In the past," says Stewart, "there has been an unfortunate liaison between religion and nostalgia on the magazine. Because of the change in general climate of the Christian community, I do feel religious journalism is going to have to reflect this change and keep pace...
...drank and exchanged presents in one long bacchanal. When the Christian missionaries began to comb the countryside for converts, they found that few were willing to give up their pagan rites. Figuring that pragmatism was called for, they combined the two holidays into the mixture of religious and secular customs that remains today...
Giant Jeweled Necklace. Both here and abroad, the traditional religious themes are losing ground in favor of secular, abstract decorations. London's Regent Street, which for twelve years has provided the backdrop for illuminated displays of reindeer, angels and the magi, has gone completely abstract. The stores along the street, which pay for the display according to their store frontage, this year hit upon a giant jeweled necklace consisting of eleven sections made up of 33 hexagonal frames wrapped in gilt tinsel. In the center of each hexagon is a three-foot star, and at the bottom of each...
...this approach seems too coolly commercial, there is a school which argues that perhaps Christ should indeed be taken out of Christmas-or at least out of the stores. These critics are less offended by totally secular displays than they are by the sanctimonious or hyprocritical use of religious ones-crèches in store windows, a Madonna presiding over the liquor-and-gift-basket department. In the U.S.'s mixed society, "the emphasis is to bypass our differences and get away from the controversy of Christmas," says Professor Dan Dodson, chairman of the sociology department at New York...