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Contemporary Religion of Japan

the sun, mountains, lakes, other aspects of nature and even some animals and humans and because of this Shinto is referred to as a...

An Analysis of One Market Under God by Thomas Frank

done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...

Roman Religion, Augury, and Divination

important ways (Geocities, 2003). Unlike divination, Augury meant to secure the approval of the gods, but this did not necessaril...

God's Existence and the Teleological Method of David Hume

supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

Cosmological Argument of David Hume

with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...

Religious Diversity, Biology, and Memes

(p. 434). How evolutionary theory (via Darwin and Dawkins) aids in understanding human migration, cultural development and social...

Women and the Effects of Male Bias

the Type-Writer Girl" (Keep, 1997, p. 401). Interestingly enough, Kipling further questioned one of these "girls," only to learn t...

Metaphysical Perspectives of Georges Bataille

teachings concerning the Void, which is expressed in the Upandishads and the Gita (Continuity/Discontinuity). From this viewpoint,...

Anatomy of the Sacred

methods presented by Livingston, and where they may well fit, we provide a brief look at the approaches, beginning with literary c...

Rushdie/Thematic similarities/Ayesha and Gibreel

portray this relationship as one built upon and surviving from an incongruous association perpetuated by greed and power. The stu...

Religion and Magic According to Sigmund Freud

can surely assume that he was intrigued by magic and religion. As one author states, "Freud must have been impressed by the univer...

Christmas and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by o...

War and its Impact

are people today who chant slogans related to peace and give up notions of war, inclusive of defense. This is of course something ...

Personal Freedom and Religion

personal liberation through approaching everything in life as it relates to what Allah wants, not what the individual wants. There...

Durang's Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All and Moliere's Tartuffe Compared

is so powerful to witness how Moliere never overtly describes the religious hypocrisy at hand, but instead shows the fervor with w...

Religious Influences in the Music of Charles Ives

reworked" into passages that frequently sound "hymnic" (Tawa 67-68). As pointed out by Robert Bellah, Christianity, and the Jude...

The People of 21st Century Japan

years ago. Economic integration almost precludes political confrontation" (Bovet 30). No country is immune from the crippling ef...

An Examination of Eastward to Tartary by Robert D. Kaplan

is difficult to imagine from the confines of our own democratic country. And yet, clearly these are truths the world...

History Of Religious Orders and Monasticism

(Marshall, nd). The basic principles of monasticism are found in Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Jainism and the Sufi br...

Society of India and Women

and their domestic responsibilities before themselves (Varma and Agrawal, 1992). In order to initiate sociological advancement, m...

Post Second World War European Politics and Christianity

and social forces in Europe. The European Union is more actively supported it is found, by the more affluent and economically sou...

Long and Short Term Causes of the English Civil War

The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...

Modern Religion Evolution

have been formulated that propose how religious observance may have come about. One of the first theories proposed pertaining to ...

African American Religion and How It Originated

west coast of Africa, but even within this area religious traditions varied greatly" (African-American Religion in the Nineteenth ...

Religious Beliefs in Issues of Child Development

and the pursing of a relationship with Christ, it is also beneficial to integrate interviews with children at varied stages in dev...

Sacred Texts and 'Sacredness'

and how they should, in turn, love one another. Such a characteristic is present in the sacred texts of the world ranging from the...

Literary Classics, Knowledge of Death and Religion

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

2 Philosophical Questions Examined

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...

Individuals Dying for Their Religions

sure, this mission has made for significant intrigue. When one looks into the death of Becket, one will quickly realize that the ...

Postwar Japan Economic and Political Restructuring Effects

The paper should show that Japans involvement in the war and the subsequent period of colonisation had a significant effect on Jap...