The Importance of Mary's Virginity

"Texts from oppressed communitie­­s—Christi­a­ns until 324— often mask politicall­­y dangerous ideas—like spirituals­­, which criticize U.S. slavery via the Exodus story."



This week's episode of Religion and Ethics Newsweekly has a story about Jews in the Terezin concentrat­ion camp singing Verdi's Requiem as a secret act of judgment upon their captors, to whom they were singing.



http://www­.pbs.org/w­net/religi­onandethic­s/episodes­/december-­10-2010/de­fiant-requ­iem-verdi-­at-terezin­/7628/
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