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...Body worship, "as a primarily Asian American expression of Christian worship, is one example of the ethnic contributions Asian Americans bring to the Western tradition," they wrote...
...group had sought to perform "body worship," a form of worship that sets hand motions to religious music. Group members describe body worship as unique to the Asian American Christian tradition...
These organizations and many others, including informal weekly Bible studies and formalized Friday worship in Lowell Hall, boast heavy student involvement and large memberships. The vastly secular education Harvard offers its flocks seems not to have circumscribed them, but to have freed them...
Students who are religiously observant here sometimes participate in groups that provide fellowship and common worship, while others often do so quietly, but decisively. My first-year roommate, a devout Mormon, took seriously the commandment "to keep the Sabbath holy." She never did school work on Sundays. Even before final exams, she would study for the first part of the weekend then would rise early on Monday morning to finish whatever she had left undone. She used her Sunday as a day of reflection, prayer, church activities and "catching up" with family and friends...
Happily, religious observance at Harvard does not end with Sabbath worship, but moves into the world as students put their faith into action in service to the Harvard community, to Cambridge, Boston and to the world beyond. Don't believe me? Ask someone from the Catholic Students Association and you'll find out those who fast on Ash Wednesday--the first day of the Lenten period preceding Easter--have usually been able to donate the raw cost of their meals to international hunger relief programs. Jewish students on campus were able to do something similar when fasting during Yom Kippur...