Word: worshipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among India's many primitive sects, one of the strangest is the orgiastic Shakta. The five elements of Shakta worship are madya (liquor), mamsa (meat), matsya (fish), mudra (grain), and maithuna (sexual intercourse), and it has long been their custom to worship the Hindu goddess Shakti by seeking unity of body and soul in communal sex rites. Such is kanchalia dharam, the ceremony of the blouse...
Among wriggling dormitories and three-cornered orange peels on the MIT campus, an awesome cylinder of bricks is being raised heavenward. That this unique type of structure be erected as a place of worship is more than ironically sagacious: it is downright shrewd. For, especially here on the MIT campus, form must follow function, in this case, to inspire divine thoughts in the pragmatic-and-recently sobered heads of MIT scientific supermen. the problem of directing brains from the mechanisms of Ac-DC current, the path of least resistance, to thoughts of the spirit, the divine essence and meaning...
...advance, seeking perfection in roundness (this being the closest architecture can presently come to the perfect sphere), does not inspire the students with religious zeal, it may yet, by its very strangeness of form, further their engineering interests and drive them to design even "bigger and better" chapels of worship. Nan Barkin--Radcliffe...
...efforts to please the government, it has become so watered down as an institution that to the average Swede it has lost most of its spiritual meaning. The Swedes regard the church as a proper place to marry in or be buried from; only a handful go to Sunday worship. The bishop with whom I spoke-one of those who signed the notorious letter-personally opposes abortions and birth control "except in cases of dire medical necessity." But he admitted to me that he had never spoken out against either of these things in church, because he "did not think...
...first man in Eden, and every man since, challenges us in the atomic problem. It is the exercise of choice, the dangerous freedom to use God-given power for good or ill. I do not mean for a moment that science is wrong, but only man's worship of it. Surely, a part of our duty, the effect of the primal urge implanted by our creator, is to discover more and more of the world we live in. But science can give man mastery only over matter. It never reaches ultimates...