Word: co-opt
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...team that has compiled them, offer the first comprehensive view of Gnosticism as "a religion in its own right." That view is startling indeed. The Gnostics were imaginative religious scavengers who borrowed freely from various sources to furnish their own scriptures. But they evidently felt a particular need to co-opt and corrupt elements of their rival, Christianity. Typically, two of the best-known tracts from the Nag Hammadi library, the previously published Gospel of Thomas and Gospel of Philip, contain sayings of Jesus purportedly collected by two of his Apostles but often twisted by the Gnostics to fit their...
...outgoing panel members voted last week to recommend that the panel be dissolved. Jean Agnew, a graduate student in history and a member of the panel, said then that the vote was based on graduate student feeling that the panel served only to co-opt graduate student protest...
...History Department vote follows a recommendation made last week by current panel members that the group stop sending representatives to the CGE, a student-faculty advisory body. At that meeting, Agnew said he felt the CGE was "a cosmetic operation designed to co-opt graduate student protest...
...potential while pressuring for a far wider conception of the ACSER. Representatives must couple their participation on the committee with a commitment to work for a broader-based and more powerful body. Undergraduates should cooperate in University change, but refuse to legitimize any "advisory committee's" attempt to co-opt opposition to University policies...
...developing alternative political and social institutions. These alternatives will require government reform in order to succeed, at least in their early stages. However, as the women's committee points out so well, the reforms they need are "non-reformist reforms," which open the path to further change, rather than co-opt and diffuse the strength of the movement...