Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parliament voted to make the Koran supreme law, clearing the way for a fundamentalist takeover of a country already made unstable by U.S. sanctions. Should the bill pass the upper house of parliament, it will grant unrestricted power for the state to enforce Islamic law, rolling back what meager secular checks currently exist. The bottom line, according to Pakistani analyst Paula Newberg, will be a severe reduction in civil liberties (i.e. freedom...
...More remarkable than what he said is the fact that the pontiff chose to engage with the prevailing secular intellectual currents. "This pope cares about ideas," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "He is an intellecutal along with being a mystic, and since postmodernism challenges the harmony between faith and reason, he feels compelled to engage with it." Don't expect him to bump any French metatheorists off Comp Lit reading lists, but rare is the pontiff who displays an awareness of the prevailing wisdom in college-coffee-bar philosophy...
Franklin's enthralling new album opens with a skit in which the gospel singer-choir leader is put on trial for blending the secular and the sacred. Unlike most skits on music albums, this one hits home: Franklin has proved himself to be a threat to musical orthodoxy. His blend of gospel, funk and hip-hop is ingenious and unique; and in pop music it's certainly harder to advocate positive religious values than it is to be Marilyn Manson. On this album Franklin has refined his sound further; his melodies are stronger, the vocal arrangements more graceful. Hard, beat...
...religion. I wonder how the Puritans who founded this institution would react to that. Despite my adviser's amiable response, I probably won't mention religion to any great extent in my senior thesis on community service as democratic participation. Nor will I offer the religious answers to secular questions I encounter in sections and discussions every day, answers that not only seem obvious to me but that seem right...
Several economists see the current market as an untraditional bear market or, as Harvinder Kalirai, an economist at the consulting group I.D.E.A., sees it, what's happening on Wall Street is "a cyclical bear in a secular bull market. This is a cyclical fluctuation." The longer-term or secular trend in the market, though, "is still higher...