Word: religion
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...craze, and a good deal of the beat comes from the state of Bahia. There, in the Brazilian equivalent of the American Deep South, African tribal dances are blended with European sounds to create the insistent samba; the afoxe, associated with the Afro-Roman Catholic Candomble religion; and the chugging, accordion-dominated forro, which blends African rhythms with Portuguese folk music. Says U.S. guitarist Arto Lindsay, co-producer with Peter Scherer of the latest album by an eminent Brazilian performer, Caetano Veloso: "In Bahia and the north you find the purest African rhythms, some of the most innovative in Brazil...
...rabbis like Jerusalem's Pesach Schindler, such efforts are historically interesting but spiritually superfluous. A member of Judaism's Conservative branch, which shuns Orthodox literalism regarding the Temple, Schindler contends that "religion evolves. We have respect for the past, but it has no operational significance. With the establishment of the state of Israel, we have all our spiritual centers within us. That is where the Temples should be built...
Comparisons to final clubs do not end there. Although Sigma Alpha Mu's local officers say that their group will not base membership on race, religion or soci-economic status, members acknowledge that the group is all male and relatively homogenous...
...belief in witchcraft has existed foran immeasurable time period, perhaps beginningwith ancient shamman's concept of "sympatheticmagic" and holding with modern day concepts ofoccultism and New Age religion. History is rifewith stories and reports of witch-hunts, initiatedand perpetuated by hysterical masses desperated todefeat the all-powerful supernatural. A centralissue to address, then, is the need for people tocontrol these supernatural forces of witchcraft.Did the people they targeted as witches haveunnatural control over their surroundings? In mostcases in colonial America, the accused witches didnot have excessive personal or social power.However, their victims, as well as the hystericalcommunity, perceived them...
...andtwenty-four of them were women. These seven menwere also associated with "known" witches, and"...in most cases...the ["known" witch] was theprimary subject, with the man becoming implicatedthrough a literal process of guilt byassociation."3 The accused were usually wives andmothers of "...solidly English stock and mostly`Puritan' religion" (Demos, p. 71). In thesecharacteristics, the accused did not deviate fromthe cultural norm. They did deviate in severalnoteable ways, however: most of the accused werethought to be poorly conditioned socially. Theydid not hold positions of high respect orauthority in the church or the other areas wherepower for women was deemed...