Word: secularized
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Hosting such secular holiday gatherings has not always passed without comment...
...failings and weaknesses of those regimes, very much the way that scapegoating the Jews served some Christian and anti-Semitic rulers in their time. Arab leaders who sought peace with Israel, such as King Abdullah I of Jordan and Anwar Sadat of Egypt, were assassinated by rivals. Religious and secular factions competed with one another over whose aggression against Israel was bloodier and more intimidating.Moreover, the war against Israel required the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs to permanent refugee status, lest their productive redeployment mean (as Cairo radio put it in 1957) “the final...
Neither Christmas Story nor Wonderful Life, though, has an exclusive on the spirit of Christmas. The holiday is full of paradox: sacred and secular, giving and gorging, loving others and suffering them. It's not so bad to get that cornball annual reminder that Bedford Falls needs you. But it's not so terrible either to wonder whether, sometimes, you'd be better off without Bedford Falls...
...What Terrorists Want” lays out a fascinating and illuminating history that takes the reader from the first-century Jewish struggle against the Romans to al Qaeda’s jihad against America. A picture of terrorism emerges that stretches from Indonesia to Germany and embraces both secular and religious causes. Perhaps the most profound facet of Richardson’s work is her documentation of the continuity of terrorism.Despite the breadth of terrorist groups that Richardson examines, she is able to isolate terrorism as the preferred means for weak sub-state groups to challenge powerful geopolitical entities. Richardson...
Attending a secular university presents difficulties in religious students’ daily routines, but it often also reinforces their faith, student group leaders said at a panel discussion yesterday. The panelists, who represented Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, and Jewish student organizations, also discussed how students manage to balance religious and academic commitments, and how they maintain their faith in classrooms that sometimes challenge it. “I remember sitting there listening to them say religion was just a means of cooperation,” former Harvard Hillel vice president Joshua C. Wertheimer ’08 said, recalling...