Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Syracuse University Religion Professor David L. Miller encountered the phenomenon two years ago when he set out to teach a course on ancient Greek religion: his students asked him what application the Greek gods might have to their lives today. Miller mulled over the question while attending a scholarly symposium, where he heard Radical Theologian William Hamilton say that today's students' spiritual search "looks like polytheism," that the young want "total access to all the gods of men." Now Miller, 38, is himself advocating a return to the gods, but not merely for the young...
...Child abuse has been neglected in this country," Nancy Poor, a member of the Symposium Committee, said yesterday. "It is closeted like homosexuality...
Over 70 per cent of the people at the symposium were women. Many child abusers are working mothers, and a majority of the social workers in the United States are women...
...primary purpose of the symposium, its organizers said, was to educate people to the problem of child abuse. "Child abuse is the symptom of a much larger problem in American society," Michael Turner, a social worker, said. "The child himself is not the problem; children are helpless...
Besides its symposium activities, Children's Advocates sponsors a group called "Parents Anonymous" to aid child abusers. It has also made recommendations for improved legislation and government support for child abuse programs...