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Judaism, Christianity and Muhammadanism are male dominant, and Robbins seems to feel -- though this and much else are not clear -- that worship of the goddess Astarte in early times was gentler. His novel's heroine is an Astarte- Venus-Jezebel figure, a young artist named Ellen Cherry. Her husband Boomer, a lame, redneck welder, appears to represent the lame god Vulcan in this strange jumble of myths...
Discussing it with my traitor-friends, I decided that I did not want to ask male friends, men I don't like, men I don't know and men who don't worship the ground I walk on, send me multiple bouquets of flowers and help me pass...
...together in South Central Los Angeles would have been as difficult to imagine as a summit between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Last week 125 members of the First A.M.E. Church, the oldest and most influential black congregation in the city, traveled to a nearby mosque to worship with so-called black Muslims from the notorious Nation of Islam. The following night the Muslims reciprocated by attending a service at the church...
Also, more than one thousand students worship weekly at the masses provided jointly by St. Paul's and the CSC, including the Sunday 5 p.m. student liturgy. In addition, the CSC chaplains work in one-to-one situations, counseling, teaching and helping people in need...
Alongside freedom of worship, Muslim citizens of the Central Asian republics are becoming more assertive about culture. Many are demanding a return to the original Arabic script of their respective languages. The Cyrillic alphabet was forced on the Central Asian republics by Stalin in 1939 to cut Muslims off from their rich cultural heritage and to exacerbate relatively minor linguistic differences among the four main Turkic groups of the area. Today, privately run Arabic-language schools are flourishing in Tashkent and other major cities, while Tashkent's five Arabic-language middle schools are crammed to capacity. At the Tashkent...