Religion
- William Ament, controversial missionary to China, criticized by Mark Twain.
- Hobart Baumann Amstutz studied at the Conservatory 1914–15 before graduating from Oberlin High School in 1915. Later served as a Bishop for The Methodist Church.
- Antoinette Brown (1847), the first ordained female minister in the U.S..
- Lewis Sperry Chafer (1891), theologian, one of the prominent proponents of Christian Dispensationalism, founder and first president of Dallas Theological Seminary.
- Fanny Jackson Coppin (1865), influential African-American educator and missionary.
- William Hamilton (1944), theologian affiliated with Death of God controversy
- Vernon Johns (1919), African-American preacher, PhD University of Chicago, predecessor of Martin Luther King Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, widely hailed as the father of the civil rights movement.
- Martha Root (1890s), Hand of the Cause in the Bahá'í Faith.
- Lorenzo Snow, Mormon prophet, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu, abbot of a Buddhist monastery in California
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“The cloister and the observatory saint
Take comfort in about the same complaint.
So science and religion really meet.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Magic is the envelopment and coercion of the objective world by the ego; it is a dynamic subjectivism. Religion is the coercion of the ego by gods and spirits who are objectively conceived beings in control of nature and man.”
—Richard Chase (b. 1914)
“The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always encouraged. A world of superstition and folly have grown up around its forms and ceremonies. But the truth in it is one of the deep sentiments in human nature.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)