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...When it comes to their own political realm, they think more secularly than the secular," he said then, on a conference call with supporters. "Some really worship at the altar of electability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mike Huckabee: Still a GOP Star | 9/5/2008 | See Source »

...mounted on a high marble plinth. His hooves and horns are 18-carat gold. His head is crowned by a gold Egyptian solar disk. Seen head-on, he's a false idol whose headgear is simultaneously silly and mesmerizing. (Hirst is assuming his buyers know the Bible story about worshipping a false god, just like the one they are about to worship.) But the beast is best seen in profile, the view that leaves you to reconcile as best you can his hieratic gravity with the laugh-out-loud abundance of his genitals. When Hirst is good, he's good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damien Hirst: Bad Boy Makes Good | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...like to call this the Bible Belt of Alaska," says Cheryl Metiva, head of the local chamber of commerce. Churches proliferate in Wasilla today, and among the largest and most influential is the Wasilla Bible Church, where the Palins worship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mayor Palin: A Rough Record | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

...continued, Shinto was initially condemned by the occupying Americans as yet another ideology that had led Japan to wartime disaster. But centuries of tradition are hard to eschew. Today, for film director Naomi Kawase, who was raised by her grandparents in the ancient capital of Nara, Shinto's nature worship is integral to her work - and she's not about to apologize for it. Kawase won last year's runner-up prize at the Cannes Film Festival for The Mourning Forest, which celebrates man's mystical relationship with nature. "Because of the circumstances of my childhood, I never fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's New Groove | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

...that includes Brahma the creator and Vishnu the preserver - imparted the secrets of creation to his consort, Parvati, in Amarnath. Each year, during the months of July and August, hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims from across India and abroad take an arduous five-day, 40-mile trek to worship at this cave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Perilous Religious Game in Kashmir | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

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