American Women — Religion
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Women in religious life
Documentary on the role of women in organized religion, featuring several women in religions life including Bonnie Daniel, Pastor, and Pat Piven, Exhorter, from the West Bay Metropolitan Community Church in Santa Monica; Presbyterian interim pastor Donna Prickett; and three members of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart religious community: Margaret Welsh, who heads the…
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Why I am an atheist / Madalyn Murray.
Madalyn Murray (O’Hair), founder of American Atheists who was dubbed “the most hated woman in America” by Life Magazine in 1964, talks about her philosophy in these two recordings. On the first program, she goes into more detail about her atheism. On the second program, she discusses some of the incidents she’s encountered in her…
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Population report / produced and narrated by Elsa Knight Thompson and Dale Minor
Program produced and narrated by Elsa Knight Thompson. Readings of articles about the world’s population problem. Parts of articles by: 1. Robert C. Cook, President of the Population Reference Bureau. Article published in the Washington Post Outlook; read by Dale Minor. 2. Dr. Sripati Chandrasekhar, director of India’s Institute for Population in Madras. Article from…
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I don’t like atheists very much / Madalyn Murray O’Hair
A speech and question-and-answer session by Madalyn Murray O’Hair, an atheist, and the moving force behind numerous atheist institutions. In this speech delivered at the Mensa Annual Gathering in Houston in June 1971, O’Hair catalogs 57 varieties of atheists and explains her contempt of them. Both the speech and the Q&A period have been cut…