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:
“There’s no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)
“Religion is a great force: the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don’t understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)