Word: worship
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...early years, the voluntary immigrants came in trickles, driven from Europe by poverty or persecution: the Puritans seeking a place to worship in New England, the bedeviled Quakers fleeing to Pennsylvania as a haven, the Huguenots escaping to South Carolina from France's intolerant Sun King. But it was not until 1840 that the tide really began to flow, and it did not ebb for nearly a century. A blight in Ireland and a pogrom in Russia, a famine in Scandinavia and civil strife in South China, starvation in Sicily and crop failures in Greece, a wave of political...
Jazz Masses & Albee. For these chaplains, formal worship is merely the starting point of their ministry. Church services, says the Rev. Larry Rouillard, Episcopal chaplain at California's Claremont Colleges, are primarily a means of nurturing those who are already committed, not of reaching out to students. Most ministers agree with Yale's Protestant chaplain, Presbyterian William Sloane Coffin, that "liturgy doesn't carry the freight it used to," and they freely experiment with different worship forms. At M.I.T., chapel services have included everything from jazz Masses to a dance by a Radcliffe girl in leotards. Episcopal...
...Religious Liberty. Widely regarded as a touchstone of council progress, the declaration affirms the right of all men- by implication, atheists as well as believers in God - to freedom of conscience; the state can neither coerce adherence to one faith nor interfere with man's right to worship...
...hatred lies bone-deep, and is cultural as well as religious. Hindus worship cows and Moslems eat them. Hindus regard Moslems as unclean, and Moslems call Hindus caste-ridden. The great Sepoy Rebellion still rankles. When Moslem regiments revolted, Hindus helped the British to crush them...
...Arab masters for most of the past 200 years, the Sudanese Negroes are little more than primitive prisoners in their own land. Political rights have been denied them, education withheld, and they have managed to preserve their dignity only by clinging to their past. The tall, naked Dinkas still worship animal spirits and fear the evil eye. The fierce Nuer herdsmen still subsist on milk, termites and the blood of cattle. The stately Shilluks still spear lion and crocodile, still stand for hours, cranelike, on one foot...