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Whether the change indicates an important degree of secularization.

Challenges to the Italian Communist Party, 1967 to the present. Partial contents: The student revolt 1967-68; The workers' rebellion 1968-1970; Black terrorism 1969-1984; Secularization 1972-1981; National solidarity 1976-1979; Autonomia and red brigades.

To identify the kind of a world in which one lives is a matter of serious consequence whether that be the world of pre-Christian Rome, of Aquinas and the age of faith, of Puritan New England, of the Enlightenment, of Victorian England, or of today. For one's understanding of his world enables him to address himself to it, in one way or another; and for the Christian this means the possibility of comparing it with God's intention for the world and ministering to it in his name. Ours is not the world that our fathers of a generation or two ago conceived it to be. The rise of totalitarianisms in a Europe once baptized; the rise of crime and the abandonment of Christian morality; the cri sis in belief in God and the dimini shing strength and influence of organized religion—these are but a few, though potent, evidences of that fact. We no longer take certain mores for granted. We do not go to war to make the world safe for democracy; we hope that we can retain it for ourselves! With disillusionment,pessimism, and even cynicism evident in all sectors of society it is little wonder that ours is being called a post-Christian era—in Europe, and also here.

If a zoologist chose to discuss a particular species of monkey not in the context of his general exposition of the Simian group, but in the context of the human group, one would suspect that there was some doubt about its status, or some confusion in his mind, or, perhaps, both. If the Second Vatican Council chose to discuss the so called 'Secular Institutes', which Pius XII had clearly stated were lay in character, not in the Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity, but in the Decree on the renewal of the Religious Life, similar suspicions naturally arise. ; N/A

By Nadje Al-Ali, Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women's Movement (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2000).

THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES THE IMPLICATIONS OF RECENT DEVELOPMENT IN IRAN FOR THEORIES OF POLITICAL MODERNIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT. IT IS ARGUED THAT THE EVENT IN IRAN AND THE SURROUNDING REGION REQUIRE THE REASSESSMENT OF CERTAIN BASIC ASSUMPTIONS OF MAINSTREAM MODERNIZATION THEORIES, SUCH AS THE SHIFT TO SECULARISM.

IN THIS STUDY OF THE LEISURE LIFE OF URBAN WORKERS, THE AUTHOR POINTS TO THE SECULAR EQUIVALENT OF REDEMPTION THEY FIND IN THEIR ESCAPE INTO THE EFFERVESCENCE OF LOUNGE RIGHT LIFE. IN THE LOUNGE, ALL IS CONTRIVED TO BOLSTER THE EGO AND SELF-ESTEEM THOSE WHO OTHERWISE ARE THE UNRECOGNIZED OF THE WORLD THE SERVICE WORKERS, GARBAGE COLLECTORS, MAINTENANCE MEN, TRUCK DRIVERS, PLUMBERS, TAXI DRIVERS, ET AL.

Partial contents: The left and the Catholic question in Spain, by Eusebio Mujal-León; The Catholic Church and Italian politics: the impact of secularisation, by Douglas A. Wertman; Christians and Marxists in Allende's Chile: lessons for Western Europe, by Brian H. Smith.

Reviews literature exploring the relationship between Christianity and Marxism. Suggests that Marx was wrong in predicting a continuing drift towards secularism; religion will remain as a means through which man seeks to explain and cope with his temporal existence. (RSM)