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"The Great Religions" by
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of the faiths practiced by the
peoples of the world.
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Judaism, Buddhism, Hin-
duism, Zoroastrianism,
Christianity and Islam.
Buddhism as practiced in
China and Japan is
thoroughly reviewed in a
lengthy chapter. Shintoism
as well as Buddhism are
practiced in China and
Japan and with reference to
Japan Cavendish com-
ments:
"The statistics of reli-
gious affiliation in con-
temporary Japan are
confusing. Although
many Japanese no longer
believe in any religion at
all, so many are real or
nominal adherents of
both Shinto and Buddh-
ism that when the figures
for all the religions are
added up there appear to
be more believers in the
country than there are
people.
"Christians number less
than one percent of the
population, and Islam and
Judaism have never made
any headway in Japan.
Among those who cleave to
a single religion, Buddhism
in one form or another
seems to have rather more
support than Shinto."
Recognizing the sec-
ularist trends, Cavendish,
in a chapter on "Religion in
the Secular Age," makes
these interesting asser-
tions:
"For the future, the long
history of religion and the
continuing demand for it
suggest that no society will
ever be able to do entirely
without it. Religion has not
withered away, even under
the quasi-religion of Com-
munism or the materialism
of the West.
"In the West, if history
repeats itself, the time
looks ripe for the rise of a
new popular religion.
The conditions which ac-
companied the
emergence of major reli-
gions in the past are pre-
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sent again. The growth of
large-scale institutions,
the disappearance of
familiar landmarks, the
confusion of moral
standards, urbanization,
cosmopolitanism and in-
creased social and physi-
cal mobility have again
created anxiety and a
need for greater
psychological security
than established institu-
tions supply.
"Science, technology and
materialism have made the
world more comfortable
physically, but less com-
fortable spiritually.
"Judging from history,
however, there is a serious
obstacle. In the past, new
religions established them-
selves only with the support
of political regimes. This is
as true of modern Com-
munism as of Buddhism and
Christianity.
"The governments of the
West do not look likely to
give vigorous backing to
any religion. As long as
religion remains a private
matter, it is questionable
whether a new major faith
can come to power."
Illustrations from his-
toric books and photos of
festival observances
supplement the chapter
on "Judaism." In some
measure, this section also
touches upon Jewish his-
tory, while dealing with
Jhdaism's influence
upon the religions of the
world.
The author traces the his-
tory of the Zionist move-
ment, leading up, after his
discussion of the Holocaust,
to the emergence of the
state of Israel. The influ-
ence of Israel in the post-
Holocaust era draws this
comment from Cavendish:
-"At last, after 2,000 years
of exile and dispersion, Zion
was regained, the Promised
Land was once more Jewish
land. In the first 10 years a
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million impoverished exiles
from 60 different countries
were absorbed into the new
state and a country which
had been largely desert
began to blossom.
"Zionism was in principle
a political not a religious
movement, but it inevitably
appealed to religious senti-
ment and to echoes of the
towering promises of the
prophets in the Bible. There
were Zionists who saw, ar-'
still see, the creation of
Jewish state in Messianic
terms as the beginning of
the fulfillment of Israel's
divine mission, a giant step
towards the coming of the
kingdom of God on earth.
"Outside Palestine it-
self, the state of Israel
and Israeli achievements
have given Jewish com-
munities a fresh sense of
pride, a greater feeling of
solidarity and a revived
confidence in their na-
tional and religions tradi-
tion."
The Cavendish book is in-
structive and will serve as a
guide for students of the
faiths practiced throughout
the world. The historic fac-
tors accompanying the ana-
lytical reviews of religious
practices add significantly
to the value of "The Great
Religions."
Grant Sustains
Judaica at
Harvard Library
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
(JTA) — A grant of
$500,000 to the Harvard
College Library to establish
"The Harvard-Littauer
Judaica Endowment" has
been described as the
largest preservation
endowment yet established
and the first such endow-
ment to preserve a collec-
tion of Judaica.
The grant was made by
the Lucius Littauer Found-
ation of New York. The
status and significance of
the grant were evaluated by
Charles Berlin, Lee Fried-
man bibliographer in
Judaica at Harvard.
He said the endowment
was a permanent one and
that its income would be
used in perpetuity to fund
preservation microfilming
of materials in the library's
Judaica collection, as well
as to acquire other mic-
rofilmings to strengthen the
library's Judaica holdings.
He said the grant was
in the tradition of sup- -
port for Harvard that -
Lucius Littauer,
member of the 1878 class,
and the Littauer Founda-
tion, have sustained for
half a century.
These benefactions in-
clude the School of Public
Administration, which be-
came the Kennedy School of
Government; the Nathan
Littauer Professorship of
Hebrew literature and phi-
losophy, the first endowed
chair in JeWish studies at
any American university;
the Nathan Littauer Fund,
the university's first
endowed book fund for
Judaica; and the Harry
Starr Professorship.