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In contemporary US institutional religion grows with a vigor equalled only in the early decades of the 19th cent. From the earliest days before independence it was realized that religious liberty was the only workable rule in a land of increasing religious diversity. Yet contemporary trends indicate that America is being steadily transformed from a predominantly Protestant into a more or less equally Protestant, Cath & Jewish country. However, in some degree tension & conflict truly mirror the US religious scene; but religious individualism has not obscured the soc vision of the many Churches. IPSA.

Reprinted from the forthcoming book entitled, "What America stands for," a symposium by Notre Dame committee on international relations.

Any study of Pakistani society must be concerned with the soc & pol'al signif of religious instit's & leadership. There are religious specialists, not formally connected with the mosque, giving spiritual guidance & extending specific aid to all kinds of ills & misfortunes-the piir & the murshid. The diff's in their roles are not quite clarified: the pirs seem to be spiritual leaders who can also give secular support & have considerable pol'al influence. The Pir is also a murshid to his disciples; gen erally it seems that the murshid does not deal with problems of this world. A study of the role of pirs would help to assess the place of the 'religion of the shrine' in present-day Islam. IPSA.

Views the abortion debate in the context of separation of church and state; US.