The lack of access to the words of the religions masters and founders enabled religious leaders to distort the teachings of these towering figures to reflect their own ideologies.
It can be wrapped in the language of Western civilization, democracy, religion, the master race, Liberté, égalité, fraternité, the worker's paradise, the idyllic agrarian society, the new man or scientific rationalism.
Biography: Born March 6 , 1961 in Manhattan... family moved to the Bronx when he was in fourth grade... graduated from Kings College, in Westchester County, N.Y., where he majored in world religions... master's degree in urban planning from Hunter College... lives with his wife, Linda, on City Island in the Bronx; they have three daughters and one son.
Less than a decade after 9/11, there was even more public hostility toward Islam than there is today; few scholars of religion had mastered the rhetorical tools to thrive in the arena of public debate.
Fortunately Anderson went on to cast him as the boss of a phone-sex line in Punch-Drunk Love (2002) and as the leader of a Scientology-like religion in The Master (2012).
Mr. Beauvoir, tall and majestic with closely cropped white hair, is a voodoo priest who was just named the religion's supreme master, a newly created position that is aimed at reviving voodoo.
Intellectually, using religion as a master category when it should be a subdivision doesn't make sense, and means our understanding of religion is impaired by a lack of comparative work with the alternatives: non-religiosity (religious-like philosophies and practices) and secularity (when both religious and non-religious philosophies and practices are of secondary or minor importance).
It does not matter what religion and what master one follows.
Prior to this work, Morgan studied philosophy and religion, earning a Masters degree in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
