Word: worshiper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They will also be able to worship as they please for the first time. In his new constitution, Franco eliminated Catholic Spain's 10-year-old ban on public worship by Spain's 30,000 Protestants and 6,000 Jews. They will be permitted to designate their places of worship with signs, and openly invite participation in their services...
...ologian Robert McAfee Brown and Roman Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak, religion has become one of Stanford's most adventurous intellectual disciplines, and Dean of the Chapel B. Davie Napier has turned the once staid services at the pseudo-Roman esque Memorial Church into a continuing experiment in worship. The result is an enlightening case study of how Christianity on a secular campus can be imaginatively brought to life...
Although Napier's chapel and academic religion at Stanford are independent, the revitalization of both has begun to have a synergistic effect: students of religion have felt compelled to express their new concern about faith in worship, while students inspired by worship plan to enroll in religion courses. Concludes Brown: "Faith and learning can exist in partnership with each other: they need not be antithetical...
...problem of the mountain men has been centuries in the making. Primitive aborigines who wear loincloths and worship ghosts, they are descended from natives who occupied the Indo-Chinese peninsula long before the Chinese-related Vietnamese moved south some 1,700 years ago. The Vietnamese took over the rice-rich coastal plains and the Mekong Valley, pushing the aborigines into the rugged, jungle-thick mountains to the northwest...
...movie has all these things and plenty more. It has Color by Deluxe, some charmingly scummy urbs and suburbs, a hilarious "sitdown orgy for 40," and a bunch of top bananas: Phil Silvers cast as a pious pimp who combines worship and whoreship, Jack Gilford playing a collector of "erotic pottery," the late Buster Keaton doing a deadpan dad with a somewhat unusual problem: "My daughter is a eunuch...