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    PBS Religion Program Lists Most 
    Influential Religious Figures 
 
    by Religion News Service 
 
WASHINGTON--Which religious figures have most influenced Americans during 
the past 
100 years? 
 
    The PBS program "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" has come up with a list 
of 25 
individuals it says fit that bill. 
 
    The list includes Americans and non-Americans, Christians, Jews, 
Muslims and at least one Buddhist and one Hindu. 
 
    In alphabetical order, they are: Karl Barth, Swiss pastor and 
theologian; Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian; Martin 
Buber, Jewish theologian; the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist leader; Dorothy 
Day, pacifist and founder of the Catholic Worker Movement; Mary Baker Eddy, 
founder of Christian Science; Mohandas Gandhi, Indian spiritual leader; 
evangelist Billy Graham; and Gustavo Guti‚rrez, Peruvian Catholic known as 
the father of liberation theology. 
 
    Also, Carl F.H. Henry, evangelical theologian and first editor of 
"Christianity Today" magazine; Abraham Joshua Heschel, rabbi and civil 
rights activist; Pope John XXIII; Pope John Paul II; the Rev. Martin Luther 
King Jr.; Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian Shiite Muslim leader; C.S. Lewis, 
Christian author and scholar; Thomas Merton, Trappist monk; Elijah 
Muhammad, Nation of Islam leader; Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian; 
Norman Vincent Peale, positive thinking advocate; Walter Rauschenbusch, 
known as the father of the social gospel; Albert Schweitzer, theologian and 
humanitarian; Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late Lubavitcher rabbi; 
Mother Teresa; and Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author. 
 
    "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" begins its second season Sept. 4 with a 
discussion of these and other religious men and women who have influenced 
American culture in the past century. 
 
    The half-hour program airs on PBS stations nationwide (check local 
listings for time and day).  It is produced by WNET in New York and funded 
by the Lilly Endowment, based in Indianapolis. 

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