Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appearance" of knowledge than for real understanding. "What would happen," Holt asks, "at Harvard or Yale if a prof gave a surprise test in March on work covered in October? Everyone knows what would happen; that's why they don't do it." In this "temple of worship for right answers, the way to get ahead is to lay plenty of them on the altar." The whole system, insists Holt, convinces most students that "school is mainly a place where you follow meaningless procedures to get meaningless answers to meaningless questions...
...success in keeping him out of the first council session, he was on hand as an expert for the second, and when the bishops rose to applaud the passage of the declaration on religious liberty, which confirmed the right of all men to freedom of conscience in worship, many of them felt that the applause was really for John Courtney Murray...
Bhutanese tapestries and wall paintings are a blend of Buddhism, Hinduism and Bon, the country's original cult of sorcery and spirit worship. There is little in them to distinguish today from yesterday. Works are not dated; subject matter is part of a continuous tradition handed down from monk to monk, generation to generation. Often the meaning of the centuries-old silk tapestries is obscure. The Mystic Spiral, intended for monastic meditation, is a vision whose precise symbolism is known only to a few learned lamas. To the Western viewer, its concentric circles, drawing him into a dizzying infinity...
...Trotter of California's School of Theology at Claremont. "What is holy is the presence of God, which is everywhere brought into focus by an act of love." In this way of thinking, God's presence is to be discovered not only in a formal act of worship in a "sacred" place such as a church, but may also become apparent in purely secular events and experiences-an encounter with another person, a selfless surrender to a cause...
...Mohammed the Conqueror proclaimed it a mosque in 1453, one of Christendom's largest churches. "It's beautiful," murmured the Pontiff, who startled his hosts by kneeling for a moment of silent prayer in what is now a state museum-and by law out of bounds for worship by any faith...