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Enter the figures Paul Elie calls crypto-religious. Here is Leonard Cohen writing Hallelujah on his knees in a Times Square hotel room; Andy Warhol adapting Leonardos The Last Supper in response to the AIDS pandemic; Prince making the cross and altar into
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The 1980s are usually seen as a slick, shrill decade. The Ayatollah Khomeini and his followers urged 'Death to America'; Ronald Reagan was in the White House, backed by the Moral Majority; John Paul II was asserting Catholic traditionalism and den