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Article: Religion and international affairs. (includes appeal from Shirley MacLaine) (God in the Newsroom)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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The old question of religion and politics, the relationship of spiritual and temporal power, has a new and sharper edge to it in the 1990's. During the last decade the role of religion as a catalyst for change--at times destructive, at other times constructive--was evident in Central America and Central Europe, in South Africa and South Korea, in the Philippines and in the Middle East. Each of these situations had its own causes and complexity, but the pervasive role of religious ideas and leaders was evident to the most casual observer. In the 1990's the pattern continues, most dramatically in the Balkans but also in Haiti, as well as in the new states emerging from the ...