BORN IN THE V.S.A. When the Anabaptists argued that de-bunking tradition and getting back to the New Testament ought to involve baptizing only adults, or when the peas-ants attacked secular...
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Stranded between cultures Robert Coles epeatedly, in spoken and R written word, Margaret Mead complained of a certain ironic provinciality among anthropologists: they wander the world in...
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Better living through chemistry? The Power to Harm Mind, Medicine, and Murder on Trial John Comwell Viking, $24.95,321 pp. Robert Coles We are intent, these days, on exploring the physical...
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Robert Coles SHUSAKU ENDO
At the river's edge
With the recent death of Shusaku Endo, in Tokyo, at seventy-three, after a long struggle with hep-atitis, Japan lost one of its foremost novelists,...
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THEN & NOW Mississippi An American Journey Anthony Walton Alfred A Knopf, $24,279 pp. Robert Coles During the early 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement in the South, even the...
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BOOKS Critics1 choices for Christmas Sara Naitland Sara Maitland, a novelist and theologian, lives in Kettering, England. Her most recent novel is Ancestral Truths (Henry Holt). asily the...
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BOOKS The seer of Covington
wo years ago this past May Walker Percy died at home in Covington, Louisiana, his departure still an aching ab- sence for many readers who regarded his...
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BOOKS Critics' choices for Christmas Molly Finn MOLLY FINN, a New Yorker, is the author of three cookbooks. A musician, she sings with Amici Musicale. When not singing, she's reading. 'm...
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THE OLD CHURCH, THE SPANISH CHURCH, THE AMERICAN CHURCH ROBERT COLES 'I am an instrument of the Lord's," one priest says I N TOWS after town up the hills of far northern New Mexico or in the...
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THE LORD OF THE GHETTOS THE GOD WHO ASKED PEOPLE TO CROSS RIVERS AND DESERTS ROBERT COLES ERE briefly, soon enough gone, we who are fairly well-off and consider ourselves well-educated ask why...
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TALKING WITH GOD .................. The God of mountain hollows and migrant...
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PIAGET AS GOD ROBERT COLES Psychology and psychiatry continue to reign supreme. They are part and parcel of our unashamedly pagan climate, our "upper middle-class Western intellectual world," as...
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