Word: zealotism
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...tale of the settlers who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony involves internecine Calvinist squabbling. Thankfully, Vowell, author of the sharply funny armchair histories Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, injects a bit of Technicolor into her portraits of the stereotypically drab colonists: feisty prefeminist Anne Hutchinson, semicrazed zealot Roger Williams and the colony's first governor, John Winthrop, who coined the phrase city on a hill in a 1630 sermon to describe his hopes for the settlement. That vision--of a community of God's chosen people that would inspire the world--forms the core of Vowell's argument...
...emissions standards.) By the mid-1990s, the Hummer's gleaming chrome grille and 14-m.p.g. (17 L/100 km) fuel consumption epitomized American extravagance. General Motors bought the marketing rights in 1999 and rolled out new models--the H2 and H3--in the face of predictable outrage from environmentalists: one zealot set fire to a Hummer dealership in West Covina, Calif...
...religious zealot Cotton Mather—who left Harvard in the early 1700s “after decrying its godlessness”—would smile, however, had he known of President Faust’s latest crusade...
...years after his 10-year term as Israel's chief rabbi, Avraham Shapira was considered a sage by the religious right. Yet for many Israelis, the Talmudic scholar was a hard-line zealot whose theology--that Israel was land given by God to the Jews--anchored the settlers' movement and helped bring about the assassination of peace advocate Yitzhak Rabin. In 2005, despite his call for soldiers to disobey orders to evacuate disputed land or else risk disaster, the "disengagement" succeeded with little violence...
...used to be a "solar zealot." Those are Steven Strong's words. "Even back in the solar-crazy '70s," he says, "it was an open question if anyone could survive trying to sell houses that produce all the power they need through renewable energy sources...