Word: worshipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bible Belt. Baptist Christianity, like many another dissident religion, found a happy home in the U.S. Its fierce egalitarianism, its jealous separation of church and state, its warm, free form of worship-all had strong appeal for the kind of man most likely to succeed on the new continent. And so the cantankerous, nonconformist, freedom-worshiping Baptists and the cantankerous, nonconformist, freedom-worshiping Americans took to each other and grew up together...
Between the gods and the faithful who worship at the 100 Jain* temples of Ahmedabad in western India stand 600-odd priests. Theirs is a hard and holy life; they say ritual prayers, guard temple treasures, abstain from smoking and drinking, sup before sundown (for lamps lure moths to destruction), and wear white cloth pads over their noses and mouths (lest their breathing destroy gnats or germs). Their wages never exceed $5 a month...
...described opposition to nationalism as the main task of all higher religions in the 20th century. Christianity should realize the threat presented to it and the West by these forms of "worship of collective power," he said...
...form of man-worship, more insidious than that of the ancients since it does not symbolize itself in gods and hence is not recognized, was cited as the chief threat to religion by historian Arnold J. Toynbee last night...
...than 9,053 new liquor outlets sprang up in the U.S., while in all of 1954 the number of new churches increased by only 5,697. At present, according to the board, there are 141,733 more saloons, bars, cocktail lounges and liquor stores than there are houses of worship...