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| | The Observer | Comment | We should not fear religion |
 | | Etty Hillesum, coming from no religious background, with a passionate love for sex, found herself with a no less passionate love of God. |
 | | The kind of religion that took hold of Etty Hillesum, however, is 'about responsibility to and for a foreign and transcendent presence'. |
 | | Rowan Williams suggests that Hillesum, in making her life 'a habitation for grief and for God' is making the most effective resistance possible both to a secular reduction of human life and 'a spirituality, in which religious symbolism itself becomes a fashion accessory for the post-modern self'. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /Observer/comment/story/0,6903,1376825,00.html (1319 words) |
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