Organized religion has long maintained a central role in the lives of many Americans. Its significance is not just spiritual. Churches and other places of worship can also be venues for socializing. In the Catholic church of my childhood, for example, fellow parishioners would chat after mass ea...
The article examines the political influence of the religious right in the United States. The author claims that conservative religious leaders and their churches have less impact on the American political landscape than they once did. Barack Obama, the 2008 Democratic Party candidate for president, ...
Our churches and other religious organizations. Our jobs. As an investor, I continue to have great faith in gold as a store of value during times of economic and geopolitical uncertainty. It’s behaved precisely as I expect it to. In response to heightened global trade concerns and weakening...
David L. Edwards in the Preface toHonest to God(2001 edition) You are living in a self-constructed internment camp ringed round by doctrines. You don’t know the large and beautiful world outside, and dare not trust yourselves to explore it. Ernest Oaten addressing the Archbishop of Canterb...
such as the authorization of American maintenance of churches and hospitals in treaty ports and the permission for the French to propagate Catholicism. The end of the Opium War and the treaties that ensued left the Qing government with a bruised ego, civil unrest, and a precedent of being take...
“Enjoy the Decline” is not a screed of pessimism – but of Hope. Hope in the satisfactory, hope in the self, hope in the overcoming – the pragmatism to recognize the limitations of the self, and the age in which one lives, seeking the eternal in all that we do upon this Earth. ...
Even though not all European churches can be ascribed a political profile, moral issues have unleashed the protest of some of them alongside Christian-inspired groups and advocacy coalitions. Mobilization against these issues is not surp... SA Fernández 被引量: 8发表: 2012年 ...
It is true that firms, universities, foundations, churches, and other non-governmental groups develop soft power of their own which may reinforce or be at odds with official foreign policy goals. And all of these private sources of soft power are likely to become increasingly important in the ...
ado you work for american company ? 您是否工作为美国公司?[translate] aShe told me wait for her at restaurant door in yesterday 她告诉了我昨天等待她在餐馆门[translate] athere are special christmas services in christian churches all over the world 有特别圣诞节服务在基督教会里全世界[translate] ...
In the eyes of the left-wing American theorist Noam Chomsky, “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” In most Western countries the public has a choice between left-wing ...