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...While each tale is enriched by the specific details of the lead character’s cultural background, there are themes and dynamics that recur throughout and speak to more universal experiences of migrant life...
...Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies, and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon Valley prophets are creating a new universal...
...And by the early modern period, national identities were interposing themselves between the local and the universal now represented by such institutions as the Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire....
...He and another Alcor member, Tripper McCarthy, belong to the Society for Universal Immortalism, a religious group that tries to incorporate church rituals into atheism and transhumanism....
...It was a school of life.” He became involved in religion through literature and began going to his local church in Pushchino, where he still attends weekly liturgy....
...As a 13-year-old apprentice bell-ringer, I had been summoned to the local church tower for an introduction to the bells I would be ringing every Sunday....
...Before that, though, it was a church for nearly 1,000 years; the centre of a community, a kind of secular monastery; and before that, the materials used to make it were part of the Roman fort of Othona,...
...The differences between Christians, Muslims and followers of a Judaic tradition there seem no greater than the division between Methodists, Baptists and the Church of England in Britain....
...“It was really my life, that church....
...She watches her friends’ excited preparations for the Buddha’s birthday, which usually draws 30,000 to the local monastery....
...I had sung in the church choir until my voice broke, and I missed it.” He scraped into music college in London, and enjoyed a “fairly conventional classical music career....
...(Although I was raised a Jew, I discovered I might be better off as a Universal Unitarian)....
...The patient would be taken off life support and the body burnt to prevent infection. But magical realism is the province of mad Latins....
...I brought Clinton’s near-1,000 page autobiography, My Life, with me, hoping to find insights into his current interest in Africa’s problems....
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