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Dignity of Difference by Jonathan Sacks

baffling questions, questions that are not answered with power or with wealth. He further indicates "Religion does" offer hope for...

The Role of Religion in the 2008 Presidential Campaign

the are hungry for a pragmatic, much less ideological, approach to the problems the country confronts" (Daniel and Holladay). Th...

Article Analysis/Crazy Beliefs

example, one of his main analogies is to compare the irrationality of religious loyalty to the phenomenon of falling of love, whic...

Greek Virtue

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

Bringing Christianity to China

constantly threatened by invasion from the east (Mungello, 2005). In other words, China was at a high point in its history and Eur...

God in Traditional African Religions

nature worship, and may have in common the 3 kind of occultism: Divination, witchcraft (magic) and spiritism, with the sacrifice o...

Microhistory Europe Early 16th Century

1584. Menocchio declared: "in my opinion, all was chaos... and out of that bulk a mass formed - just as cheese is made out of milk...

Frantz Fanon; Applications to the Undermining of Nationalism In the US

where there is an apparent political clash of ideals and an inability to reconcile them. Fanons work has often been referred t...

Ethics Questions

well without religious influence: Those who are dedicated practitioners meanwhile follow a multiplicity of religious paths. From t...

Overview of Buddhism

This essay presents an overview of Buddhism that explains the fundamental beliefs of this world religion. The Buddhist orientation...

FUNCTIONS OF THE ARDAY-VIRAF NAMA

Discusses the consoling factors introduced in the Arday-Viraf Nama and points out why people gain comfort from religion. There are...

Spirituality in the Workplace

Spirituality has become more important to organizational leaders and it can be observed in many businesses. This essay reports wha...

Walker, et al (2004) Article Summary,

This article review pertains to the meta-analysis conducted by Walker, Gorsuch and Tan (2004), who examined how therapists integra...

Analysis Review Article on Religion and Secularism

This essay reviews an essay by Asad about the nation-state, religion, and secularism. There is one source listed in the bibliograp...

A SCIENTOLOGY OVERVIEW

Discusses the Church of Scientology and whether it is a "viable" religion or a brainwashing cult. There are 5 sources listed in th...

Same-Sex Marriage - A Philosophical Analysis

In a paper of nine pages, the writer looks at the topic of same-sex marriage. Frameworks such as religion, politics, and ethical p...

Religious Affiliation and Prayer

the participants were active churchgoers and had voted in the 2004 presidential election (Hanek, Olson, & McAdams, 2011). The samp...

An Analysis of Purity and Danger

ideas. Some examples provided by the author respect the Jewish dietary traditions as well as ideas about sexuality and cleanliness...

Various Topics Pertaining to Teaneck, NJ

has a violent crime rate of 240 incidents per 100,000 in population, which compares to a rate of 342 in New Jersey as a whole and ...

Emile Durkheim Max Weber and Religion

Communist party and was devoted to building a better socialist society (Jacobsen and Polder 2008, p. 5). He conducted worker stud...

Religious Experience and the Brain

understandings, such as the idea that "the role of personal beliefs, expectations and experiences may interject bias into the inte...

WHAT DOES RELIGION “LOOK” LIKE?

Earthlings are religious, wed have to say that yes they are. The problem with Earthlings and religion, however, is that they tend ...

Science, Religion, and Being Set Free by Untruths in Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

multimillionaire Julian Castle, who now resides on the Caribbean island of San Lorenzo. This impoverished country is also home to...

Deep Ecology vs Religion

Our world hardly even resembles the world as it existed just a few generations ago. Ever expanding human populations...

The Modern World and Shinto

kami (gods or spirits)" that are linked to a variety of aspects of nature, from the earth and the sea, to the sky and the sun ("Sh...

The Transition of Shinto to the Modern World

describing kami in too theological a fashion, because oftentimes these spirits are not understood to be literal spirits, but rathe...

Founders of Christianity and Islam

Son. Joseph was a carpenter in a small village. Nazareth was a farming village but it was also a hub for the market which made i...

Confucianism Taoism and the Superior Man

Confucianism and Taoism are two of the Easts largest...

In Favor of the Ground Zero Mosque

This research paper offers an over-all summary of the debate over whether or not New York City should allow construction of an Isl...

The Influence of Missionaries in West Africa on Christianity

the Middle East and North Africa that religion has its foundations, it was only in the fifteenth century that the centre of Christ...