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...could devotedly nurse his first wife as she lay dying of tuberculosis in a sanatorium a few miles from the wartime Manhattan Project, where he worked, yet later in life could make a sport out of picking women up in bars; a man who despised hero worship yet wrote books in which he was the hero; a man who rarely taught classes or took on doctoral students but is regarded as one of physics' great teachers. If some questions remain about exactly what made Feynman Feynman, and not just a garden-variety genius, that is no fault of Gleick...
...others point to women who have formed separatist "Women-Church" worship, a New Age blend of feminist, ecological, neopagan and Christian elements. One book offers liturgies to celebrate the coming-out of lesbians, teenagers' first menstrual period and cycles of the moon. In an Ash Wednesday rite, women repent not of their own sins but of the sins the church commits | against women. Last month, 30 members of Chicago Catholic Women gathered to chant, "I am a woman giving birth to myself; bless what I bring forth," and then shared eucharistic bread and wine -- without once uttering the name...
...lesser extent in Western Europe, it is an entrenched force in secular society and, increasingly, in Catholic agencies, campuses and parishes. In some liberal Protestant churches, the women's movement is on its way to becoming the single most important influence over how members worship and what they believe...
Santeria is a mixture of Roman Catholic and Yoruba (West African) religious practices. Its main focus is the worship of saints, who are equated with Yoruba deities. As in Catholicism, one prays to these saints to intercede in a crisis. Unlike Catholics, however, the santeros invoke their saints by sacrificing an animal as an offering. Ritual sacrifice also plays a role in priests' ordination rites...
...Modern multiculturalists might profit by pondering the combination of tolerance and sternness with which he views them. Cooper does not demonize Indians; when whole tribes are presented as villainous, this is a plot device, not a racial judgment (the French get the same treatment). Nor does Cooper worship Indians, in the manner of Dances with Wolves. Up to a point, he is a relativist. Good white men go to heaven when they die, while good Indians head for the happy hunting ground. Natty refuses to send either on their way minus scalps, because it goes against the grain...