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...additions. The Koran portrays Abraham as the first man to make full surrender to Allah. Each of the five repetitions of daily prayer ends with a reference to him. The holy book recounts Abraham's building of the Ka'aba, the black cube that is Mecca's central shrine. Several of the rituals performed in that city by pilgrims making the hajj recall episodes from his history. Those who cannot journey still join in celebrating the Festival of Sacrifice, in which a lamb or goat is offered up to commemorate the same near sacrifice of a son that the Jews...
Under Solano’s ownership since 1974, the shop has retained the intimacy of an exclusive club, but the community has become much more expansive, if no less illustrious. Indeed, the shop remains what it has always essentially been: a cluttered, charming shrine to the written word. Gazing down from on high, over more than 19,000 volumes of poetry stacked on only 404 square feet of floor space, are the black and white portraits of our greatest poets...
...It’s not a shop, it’s a shrine,” said Eamon Grennan, one of the featured poets, who discovered Grolier while a graduate student at Harvard. “I suppose in its own way, it’s sort of a chapel...
...reason for the official silence is that Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), in power almost continuously since 1955, is beholden to nationalistic groups such as the million-strong Shrine Association, which represents Japan's 80,000 Shinto shrines. This staunchly conservative organization, which opposes compensating sex slaves and other victims of Japan's aggression, continues to insist that Japan fought on foreign soil to liberate its neighbors from Western colonialism. Nearly half of the LDP members in Japan's parliament routinely attend Shrine Association events or accept its donations, according to Nobunao Tanaka, author of two books critical...
...Right-wing nationalists have made Chiran a shrine: every Aug. 15, which the Japanese mark as the date of the war's end, trucks roll through the streets blaring nationalist messages and songs. But in Tome's eyes, the kamikazes were kids, not political symbols, and she relentlessly preached peace. "She always said, 'No one wins in war,'" recalls Hatsuyo. "To her, these boys were victims." Many of the families visiting Chiran this Aug. 15 heed her message, and express pity and sorrow rather than jingoistic pride. "I came because I wanted to know the truth," says Kazunori Matsuo...