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Churches of racial & ethnic minorities have developed & exist to serve the religious & soc needs of these groups. This function has been shaped & reinforced by practices of racial & ethnic discrimination in the US. The goals & programs of racial & ethnic churches are affected by such factors as the movement toward desegregation & integration, the aspiration to full participation in community life, mobility, urbanization, & changes in SES. Though ethnic churches for persons of European background have virtually disappeared in the US, churches of other ethnic & racial minority groups-Negro, Puerto Rican, Spanish-speaking people of the Southwest, American Indian, Chinese American, & Japanese American-continue to exist as signif institutions. Both the Protestant & the Roman Catholic churches recognize that discrimination & segregation contrad ict their basic beliefs & teachings. There has been a movement toward desegregation & integration within the life of the churches themselves. Because the pattern of ethnic & racial segregation in the churches is related to the pattern of ethnic & racial segregation in society, the churches have had to concern themselves with the elimination of policies & practices of discrimination & segregation in all areas of community life. AA.

The encounter between the human mind and the outside world is the essence of speculation. The dramatic element in the encounter has been provided by man's assertion that mind is capable of comprehending and ordering the world about him. This same "epistemological presumptuousness," which we associate instinctively with the spectacular successes of the natural sciences, has also been implicit in the enterprise of political theory. Here, too, the claim is that the human intellect can understand all of the complex interrelationships of a political order. In some ways this claim is even more assertive than that of the natural scientist. The theorist seeks not only to analyze and explain certain phenomena, but to prescribe more satisfactory patterns.Given the complexity of the subject matter of politics and the finite character of the human mind, it is not surprising that the ideas of political theorists lend themselves to diverse interpretations at the hands of later commentators. Disagreement in interpretation, however, can take one of two forms: it may turn on a question concerning a particular idea, meaning, or emphasis; or it may find the interpreters taking diametrically opposed positions concerning the basic tendency of a given set of political ideas.

A première vue, le Mexique est un pays profondément catholique. Malgré des lois anticléricales très sévères — peut-être les plus sévères du monde — l'Église catholique y jouit d'un grand prestige et d'une influence considérable. Les signes extérieurs de la piété y sont nombreux et parfois obsédants. Or il suffit de quelques semaines au visiteur le moins averti pour faire un certain nombre de découvertes qui ne laissent pas de l'intriguer.Tantôt c'est une sculpture discrètement placée dans le coin le plus obscur d'un rétable, et dont le paganisme éclate soudain aux yeux de qui la découvre. Tantôt ce sont des Indiens, catholiques depuis des générations, qui, sous la lune, au fond d'un cimetière, se livrent à d'étranges rites. Tantôt c'est la nana, la vieille bonne indienne, qu'on entend raconter aux enfants de curieuses légendes où les aventures de Diosito — le petit Jésus — se mêlent à celles de la déesse du Maïs.