Word: priestcraft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Iowa has just organized a school of religion in which earnest men will strive to teach religion as a dynamic force in life, rather than as a matter of creed, tenets, rites, thaumaturgy or priestcraft. At this aim, endorsed by the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, the Presbyterian, "an official organ of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America," last week scoffed...
...eternal rest. Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the course of his wanderings, has left a vast legacy of the stories and superstitions current in his day. The tales regarding kings buried deep in the rock under the pyramids have been relegated with the tales of black magic and priestcraft to the confines of fiction. All have been considered too far fetched to be true. The truth of the statements with regard to Gizeh seems now in a fair way to become proven conclusively...