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...been tremendously influential.... He's sparked new ideas wherever he's gone," says Ann Swidler '66, a sociologist who co-wrote Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life and The Good Society with Bellah...
...town's text commission labored hard to respond to complaints, especially those lodged by American Jews. The commission reworked the basic text, itself a 19th century revision by a local priest, Alois Daisenberger. The new version was prepared in consultation with Jewish agencies and two Catholic scholars, Leonard Swidler and the Rev. Gerard Sloyan of Temple University. The numerous alterations include the re-Judaization of Jesus and his disciples, who wear prayer shawls and yarmulkes, and the removal of stereotypes of the Jews as avaricious and mercenary. "They have made very significant improvements," says Swidler, who has been working with...
...ordination is perhaps the most fundamental conflict between the church's hierarchy and its militant women critics. "It is the central issue because without it, there is no route to power within the church," says Mary Gordon, a lay activist and author of the novel Final Payments. Arlene Swidler, who teaches religion at Villanova, says simply, "Ordination remains the central issue because it includes everything...
...years behind schedule. With $6.8 billion in outstanding debt. WPPS is the largest borrower ever in the municipal bond market; but it can't get any more funds because Washington's voters recently approved a ballot proposition giving themselves veto power over any more WPPS bond issues. As Joseph Swidler, former chairman of the Federal Power Commission, succinctly put it. "Utilities have run out of money." Nuclear power, then, is both an environmental nightmare and an economic basket case...
...department continued to honor its part of the University's commitment to affirmative action: with the hiring early this year of Ann Swidler '66, three of the department's five junior faculty are women, all of them hired in the last two years...