Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that "reveals to the Japanese the state of perfection," art "motivated by an awareness of the inconceivable and invisible sources of all being in Buddhist metaphysics." For more than ten years, Kimiko and Johen Powers have been assembling their private collection, incorporating Buddhist works as well as secular works of Japan's decorative and literary styles. Whereas Buddhism documented the sutras (the Buddhist scriptures purporting to contain the words of the Historical Buddha) or created images of its religious pantheon, the decorative and literary styles drew from everyday activities that were less significant in terms of religion...
...short, I am a pro-football nut. And I share my insanity with thousands -nay, millions-of others who have turned a weekend entertainment into a mystique, an obsession, and a secular religion...
Ecclesiastical powers are reacting to the churches' secularizing trends of recent history not by withdrawing from secular concerns but by expanding those concerns while infusing into them the traditional theology supposedly eschewed or modified through secularization. Secularized spirituality becomes materialized theology. Reclaiming the civil order while going back to that old-time religion...
...UNION of church and state is prone to becoming a union of church and state with race. Religious belief draws biological lines more sharply than does the secular state. In America, the crises in church-and-state and black-and-white may each come to a head through coming together. "Nation-building" is the new and culminating black concept and commitment. Various roads are converging on the South as a black secessionist Afro-Islamic nation wrenched from a white Christian America...
...except among Reconstructionist Jews, who hold men and women equal-no number of women can make up for one absent man. In Orthodox synagogues, women are seated separately, and in Jerusalem they must worship separately at the Wailing Wall. Though women in Israel have fully equal secular rights and are even subject to compulsory military service, Orthodox control of such social institutions as marriage clearly favors the man. In the strict interpretation of the law, for instance, only a husband can grant a divorce. The Orthodox male attitude is perhaps best exemplified by his familiar daily prayer. "Blessed be thou...