Word: worshiper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sherry Turner of Atlanta will preside over the closing worship. The conference will end Saturday night after participants attend a Kuumba concert...
...determine when a "cult" becomes a religion, especially in a land where freedom of religion is sacrosanct? My Random House unabridged dictionary defines cult as "a particular system of religious worship" and then, seven lines later, as "a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox or extremist." A cult, in other words, is a religion and isn't one, depending on who's looking...
...organizations (and Jim Jones' People's Temple is sometimes considered a church that devolved into a cult). As Scientologists do battle with the government in Germany, they could point out that religion apparently comes from the Latin religare, or "to bind"; cult comes from the Latin cultus, meaning "worship...
Central Africa's military messiah is accompanied by a bizarre band of apostles. Many of Kabila's soldiers are clad in rubber Wellington boots, and their uniforms are gleaned from several different armies. Until recently, they were assisted by Mai-Mai tribesmen, who smoke marijuana, worship water and festoon themselves with bathroom fixtures--mainly faucets and hoses--in the belief that these fetishes will aid them in battle. For the moment, the rebel leader has established his headquarters in Mobutu's former home in Goma. He has dubbed his new residence "the Museum of Shame" because its ostentatious decor mirrors...
...human body in heaven: "Compare a hairy peach pit to the tree it becomes, loaded with fragrant blossoms and sweet fruit." Like Russell's, Tada's heaven is firmly God-centered ("Most of all, together we shall fall on our faces at the foot of the throne and worship our Savior forever"). Her musings are scripturally solid, although she points out that even biblical tropes are "only shadowy images of the real thing." Perhaps most important, she is not afraid to sell. "Oh, the things that we shall do!" she writes. "You and your friends will rule the world...