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Mysticism, Religious Experience, and Faith

was commended as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must belie...

Religions of Mesoamerica by David Carrasco

sun traveled at night" (Carrasco 35). The game was viewed as a representation of a cosmic struggle in which the players competed t...

Overview of Going Home Jesus and Buddha as Brothers

is our home" (Hanh, 1999). He goes on, "A wave looking deeply into herself will see that she is made up of all the other waves an...

Comparative Analysis of Works by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine

will be examined and compared and contrasted. Paine insisted, in his "Common Sense" that "Securing freedom and property to all men...

New York City Politics and the Effects of Religious and Ethnic Groups

in New York, regardless of numbers. This is because New York City is "home to the nations largest community of American Jews" ("N...

Religious Importance of Jerusalem

And finally, can the nature of Jerusalem as a "sacred space" for all three faiths "throw any light on the conduct of politicians a...

Encountering God and Diane Eck's Unconvincing Argument

carried through in any short amount of time; in fact, each step forward toward a modicum of religious harmony is often met with a ...

World History Effects of Three Forms of Nationalism

represents often empowers citizens into believing their nations and peoples are the best and brightest in the world. It is believ...

Masturbation

form of sexual pleasure unlikely to result in a population increase (e.g. masturbation, homosexuality, oral/anal sex) has routinel...

Religious Prejudice and Ethics

perhaps for good reasons but with disastrous results over the long term. Community over self is more obvious and calls to m...

American Society Problems

of Navajo and Zuni reservations and this is widely seen and known by most. And, it seems that no matter how educated they become, ...

Faith and Reason in the Thinking of Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri

be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...

Biography of St. Augustine

but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

due to biblical passages describing how divine vengeance was "meted out to guilty and innocent alike" in "the Great Flood, the des...

The Career and Writings of Evangelist Carl F.H. Henry

pursuits out of fear of being contaminated by criticism of the Bible or by the increasing tendency of universities to turn away fr...

Widmar v. Vincent and Free Speech

an issue that directly impacted on Cornerstone, but could equally impact on any religious group wanting to use any public grounds,...

Legal Brief of Wisconsin v. Yoder Addressing Amish Religious Freedom

In four pages this paper examines the education law of the state of Wisconsin and religious freedom as they are addressed in the W...

An Iraq Government Structure

5 percent are identified as Assyrian, Turkoman and other (CIA, 2005). These demographics must be considered when developing a new ...

US Supreme Court Case of Widmar et al v. Vincent et al

that the students had a right to free speech and contended that because the University had an established policy of accommodating ...

Emily Dickinson's Religious Perspectives in 'Some Keep the Sabbath by Going to Church'

is arguing in this poem that the search for eternal peace and a relationship with the divine can be just as meaningful when carrie...

Film as Religion by John Lyden

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe and Modernity v. Tradition Discourses

come together as one to protect the land during times of war (Olaniyan 22, Lindfors 23). Ezeulu was the arrow of god because the ...

'Some keep the Sabbath going to church' by Emily Dickinson

In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...

Historical Significance of The Third Reich

This paper discusses the Holocaust, The Third Reich, and the concept of history repeating itself if people do not stay vigilant. ...

Islam, Christianity, and Terrorism

society, leading to their religious viewpoint forming the basis of social morality. However, there is also something of a gre...

Human Religious Commitment Not Based on Blood

many global inhabitants that it is virtually impossible to extract their religious views from their political/social perspectives....

Ireland from 1879 to 1918 in Terms of Protestant Unionism and Catholic Nationalism

just the opposite during Irelands late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, proving to pull people apart who would otherwise ...

Aspects of Euthanasia

carrying out and action and by withholding life-sustaining care, respectively. II. LEGAL ASPECT The recent Terri Schiavo situat...

Drama and Religious Education

of instructing children in how write and then perform in their own plays. Briefly, the Sklar (1990) method involves, first of all,...

Hinduism and Mythology

came about where concepts such as heaven, divinity, truth, the sanctity of birth, and sacrifice (2005). These were new concepts in...