Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...starting five is only 6 ft. 5 in. "Rupp's Runts," sportswriters call them-yet they win. Last week they whipped Louisiana State 111-85 and Auburn 115-78, ran their season's record to 14-0, to remain one of only two (the other: Texas Western) still unbeaten major college teams...
...scientific discipline that universities are somewhat at odds about how to teach it. Columbia concentrates on a sociological approach. At Rutgers, the emphasis is on relating religion to modern life through courses on contemporary theological trends and the relation of religion to science. Princeton and Western Michigan lean heavily to religious history. Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley have no separate religion departments, but offer a number of courses in different departments. At Michigan, for example, primitive religion is taught in anthropology classes, the background of the Bible in the Near Eastern studies program...
...religion department. Universities deliberately avoid hiring propagandizers for a faith. "It's completely irrelevant to us whether a man is a good Christian or a good Protestant or a good atheist just so long as he is a good and competent scholar," says Columbia's Joseph Blau. Western Michigan has had a Jesuit priest teaching Hinduism and Buddhism, while at Wisconsin a course on the Reformation is taught by a Jew, another on the philosophy of religion by an avowed agnostic. Stanford's religion course on ecumenism is taught jointly by Presbyterian Robert McAfee Brown and Roman...
...objectivity of the religion courses sometimes startles students, who frequently sign up to have their faith reinforced, not scrutinized. At Michigan State Dr. Robert T. Anderson, a conservative Methodist theologian, begins Religion 220 by telling his students: "The Bible is the greatest collection of mythology in the history of Western civilization." Students who were fundamentalists in September frequently are demythologizers by January. Some students who have no faith take the courses because they fill a genuine lack in their experience. Seven of 14 who took one Dartmouth class on Kierkegaard billed themselves as agnostics. Students who study religion...
Chinese culture, isolated for centuries from Western influence, emphasizes a hierarchical, Glitist society and rejects the notion of national self-determination, he points out. Because of this difference, he says, China and America regard each other as "backward, evil and deserving destruction...