Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Primary aims of the community, according to Williams, include creating a non-sectarian forum for Buddhist students, allowing contact between ordained members and lay people, sponsoring educational forums and considering and acting upon issues in the outside world...
Williams emphasized the inclusive nature of the community. "The underlying premise, the spirit we wanted to imbue the group with was non-sectarian," he said...
Soon the community will organize anon-sectarian worship service which will includeaspects of many different Buddhist lineages,Williams said...
...decided that politics was unstable as a career. His dissertation, on the early history of church-related colleges, is still remembered. "It was a first-rate piece of work," says Professor James Roark, "but I'm not sure Ralph would want it published today." The paper criticized some sectarian schools for trading off their religious heritage in exchange for endowments. In fact, Reed is proud of its argument: that traditional Christian values -- as born-again conservatives define them -- deserve to be protected...
Political fashions drift from left to right. The enthusiastic sectarian style of American communists during the 1930s and 1940s traveled with the neoconservatives when they washed ashore as immigrants to the land of conservatism during the 1970s and 1980s. The rallying cry of race-blind equal opportunity, which was of little interest to right-wingers during the heyday of the civil rights movement, was later taken as the right's own in the struggle over affirmative action. And now, having spent recent years diagnosing a virus of democracy they label "political correctness," some conservatives seem to be succumbing themselves...