Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Ecclesiastical powers are reacting to the churches' secularizing trends of recent history not by withdrawing from secular concerns but by expanding those concerns while infusing into them the traditional theology supposedly eschewed or modified through secularization. Secularized spirituality becomes materialized theology. Reclaiming the civil order while going back to that old-time religion...
...UNION of church and state is prone to becoming a union of church and state with race. Religious belief draws biological lines more sharply than does the secular state. In America, the crises in church-and-state and black-and-white may each come to a head through coming together. "Nation-building" is the new and culminating black concept and commitment. Various roads are converging on the South as a black secessionist Afro-Islamic nation wrenched from a white Christian America...
...except among Reconstructionist Jews, who hold men and women equal-no number of women can make up for one absent man. In Orthodox synagogues, women are seated separately, and in Jerusalem they must worship separately at the Wailing Wall. Though women in Israel have fully equal secular rights and are even subject to compulsory military service, Orthodox control of such social institutions as marriage clearly favors the man. In the strict interpretation of the law, for instance, only a husband can grant a divorce. The Orthodox male attitude is perhaps best exemplified by his familiar daily prayer. "Blessed be thou...
...Thus the pronouncement from Rome last week was received by most Catholics with some surprise and bewilderment: the Vatican has revived, in a shorter version, an ancient rite of virginal consecration. It will enable Catholic women to take a public vow of virginity while still remaining within secular society, much as women did in the early church before there were religious orders or convents...
...personal fortune on the profits, which went mainly into diocesan funds in India. Even the most notorious recruiter, Father Cyriac Puthenpura, who enlisted at least 500 novices himself, seems to have used his profits for a beneficent purpose: to build the Nirmala Bhavan (Home of the Pure of Heart) Secular Institute for girls in Kerala's Ettumannur district. In his zeal, however, Puthenpura may have oversold his audience. His recruits did not, as he claimed, "live like princesses" in Europe. Like novices everywhere, they had to wash dishes, scrub floors, and perform other menial tasks...