Word: eclecticism
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THE sect's theology is, well, eclectic. According to his followers, Maharaj Ji is the last of a line of Spiritual Masters which has seen such past greats as Moses, Buddha, Krishna, Jesus and Mohammed. He is the highest manifestation of God incarnate; yet each individual on earth has portions...
EACH YEAR, a few ambitious directors summon the spirit of the Greek amphitheater to the dark, boxy Ex. Occasionally and remarkably, the Ex production of Prometheus Bound, directed by Brian Powers according to an eclectic translation, flashes with this spirit of intense, exalted suffering. The drama is powerful only as...
McNamara does not applaud all of today's enthusiasm for Eastern religions. "I am troubled," he says, "because the vast majority of people who are into the Eastern religious scene take a bit of this and a bit of that and wind up doctoring their spiritual lives in an...
The band's playing reached its peak in the eclectic final work. Karel Husa's "Music for Prague 1968." Husa, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music, borrows whoel motifs from both Bartok and Holst, but draws most heavily on an old Czech song which Smetana, the fervently nationalistic...
"We have tried to keep our reading list eclectic and of broad ideological sympathy, but if they feel there's something they can teach us, that's fine," Eckstein said.