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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before examining the truth of the phrase "renascence," one must first note that it is really quite difficult to say that "Harvard," in the sense of Harvard students, is doing or believing or undergoing anything. Each assumption made from this random poll will be challenged by hundreds, and each analysis...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Beyond Tradition: Students Leave Orthodoxy In Eclectic Search for Meaningful Religion | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

We must, at the outset, deny that a "religious renascence" is an adequate term for the religious interests of students at Harvard. One must first look askance at the word "religious," which implies some sort of mixture of faith and ritualistic practice. While attendance at Memorial Church has multiplied many...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Beyond Tradition: Students Leave Orthodoxy In Eclectic Search for Meaningful Religion | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Secondly, we must deny the word "renascence." Students here have been talking about religion for a good many years, and so to infer that there has been a lapse in theological inquiry is not really accurate. If the word is to imply a renascence of the religion of the Puritan...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Beyond Tradition: Students Leave Orthodoxy In Eclectic Search for Meaningful Religion | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Reasons for this difference in attrition rates are not difficult to find, but it is nigh impossible to find a single explanation suitable for all cases. Catholics and Episcopalians have, of course, much more to bind them to their faith than Protestants with a weaker liturgical tradition which occupies a...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Beyond Tradition: Students Leave Orthodoxy In Eclectic Search for Meaningful Religion | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

What appears from this and related questions is a separation of ethics from religion. Originally the foundation of moral systems, religion, to these respondents at least, has lost the claim of sole ownership to the ethical beliefs of the secular society. Asked whether they "believe that correct ethical principles are...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Beyond Tradition: Students Leave Orthodoxy In Eclectic Search for Meaningful Religion | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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