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...Christians must currently struggle against political restrictions on their religious freedom. Nearly two-thirds of the book consists of detailed statistics on religions in countries from Afghanistan (where it is a capital crime for a Muslim to convert to Christianity) to Zimbabwe (where 40% of the people still practice tribal religions...
...Christians during the 1970s, more than one-third of them as converts rather than through natural population growth. In Saudi Arabia, Islam's epicenter, thousands of youths have covertly converted to Christianity through listening to radio preachers. In Nigeria, where as of 1900, 73% of the people followed tribal faiths and 26% Islam, the population today-Africa's largest-is 49% Christian and 45% Muslim. South Korea demonstrates the world's most dramatic Christian revival: the churches are growing by 6.6% a year, fully two-thirds through conversions rather than the birth rate...
...Shelley Rogers' dark eyes and impish beauty could trigger instant puberty for any twelve-year-old boy in her class. Rogers is one of four young actresses who alternate roles as students and teachers in a Yonkers, N.Y., parochial school back in the '60s. All the tribal rites reprised here have been done before, and better, and too often-at alumnae gabfests, if not onstage-for Playwright Casey Kurtti to pretend to freshness. Alas, freshness-make that impudence-is all School Girls has going for it. The play's antireligious broadsides are clumsy enough to make...
...except that it is clear-eyed, touching and buoyantly funny. The stage set itself is something of an anachronism with its Sheraton table, Hepplewhite chairs and dour ancestral portraits. The time span is from the Depression to the present. The dining room used to be the site of unalterable tribal rites-Thanksgiving, Christmas, family fiscal confabulations. Now people eat in the kitchen...
...collection, as it now stands, is strong in New Guinea and Melanesian art. And its African material, particularly in the areas of Senufo, Dan and Dogon tribal art, is superb. But the coverage of Australian and (more surprisingly) Northwest American Indian art is sketchy. This may be because the roots of Rockefeller's own taste were set in the culture of European modernism-in the admiration for the primitive that formed the experimental work of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Brancusi...