Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bemoaning the economic ignorance of most priests, a financial adviser to the New York archdiocese told Gollin, "It's a good thing they have God on their side." They need secular help as well. Urban parishes increasingly depend on raffles, lotteries, Monte Carlo nights and bingo to make ends meet. Priests often consider gambling demeaning, if not immoral, but their parishes need it. The annual $15,000 or so it provides may keep the parish school open. One priest explains, "Bingo isn't a sign of greed. It's a confession of defeat-an admission that...
...wide-scale support, and he distrusts Muskie's political judgment. Referring to Muskie's trip to South Vietnam in 1967, during which the Senator said that the Thieu victory of that year was a free election. Peretz says: "I'm like the Old Baptists: people can redeem themselves with secular versions of penance. But this is pretty late. I would be very wary of the type of judgments Muskie would make...
...used to be rare for anyone to get a doctoral degree in religion unless he was a clergyman. But in the past decade so many students have been studying religion for personal reasons and to become teachers that it is now the fastest-growing graduate field at secular universities. More doctorates (335 last year) are now granted in religion than in philosophy, geology, art, music, speech or any language...
...beguiling and wrong, says Welch. Instead, he says, the qualifications for scholars are the same in religion as in any other discipline, including the ability to perform critical analysis. Welch is convinced that the study of religion must be buttressed with that of the social sciences and the other secular resources of a good university...
...synagogue only three times a year. Young Steven wanted more, and entered Manhattan's Orthodox Yeshiva University High School. There he first came under the influence of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchek, a preeminent U.S. Orthodox authority and Kantian scholar who emphasizes Orthodoxy's basic compatibility with secular learning. Riskin went on to become valedictorian at Yeshiva University. Then, journeying to Israel to attend Hebrew University, he sought out Martin Buber, whose works he had been reading since he was twelve. Riskin found that he had a more traditionalist view of Judaism than the great philosopher. "Buber could...