Essays 271 - 300
Dogon people specifically mentions that the Dogon will be destroyed by a strange and powerful people who flew down from the sky. ...
speech associates her with a shrine, a religious object, and then offers up his lips as pilgrims. Pilgrims often made journeys to ...
had not merely been a practical matter, but one of deep, psychological significance (1990). They had rejected a system that condem...
order" (Dulles PG). The reincarnation of the sacramental model, according to Dulles, is traced back some sixty years ago when th...
In five pages the contemporary world application of Hartshorne's centripetal and centrifugal force theories is offered along with ...
home of the most violent conflicts between the two factions. Industry The First Industrial Revolution in Northern Irela...
with holy wars that are most familiar to Westerners are in the Old Testament. Exodus 32:27 tells of how God ordered the destructio...
Sierra Leone, at the current site of the city of Freetown. The newly-freed slaves did not fare well in Freetown; they suffered fr...
reworked" into passages that frequently sound "hymnic" (Tawa 67-68). As pointed out by Robert Bellah, Christianity, and the Jude...
(Marshall, nd). The basic principles of monasticism are found in Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Jainism and the Sufi br...
holding certain truths? The members of the Church are united, not by their belief in certain men, but by their belief in certain ...
vengeance". This passage highlights an extreme sense of violence, and reveals the chaos and out-of-control nature of the...
pertaining to religious persecution have never received as much attention in the US as other forms of discrimination (Wales 579). ...
can occupy the same country (Robinson). For example, Bosnia (which has seen a great deal of religious persecution) is home to Roma...
Interestingly enough, the Hindu religion is not one single religion per se, but rather, a collection of customs, traditions, belie...
not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...
began to feel old and weak, it would gather spices and aromatic branches, make a fire and immolate itself in the fragrant flames (...
for the love of God, I seek consolation from you, that I may be assured. More than two years ago, indeed, I saw you in a vision, l...
majestic, awesome, bedazzling, exalted" (Mack, 1995, p. 45; Pandit, 1996, p. 179). Similarly, the opening lines of Psalm 104 also ...
always existed whether it was called "Israel or Christian" (Snyder, 1997). Luther argued that it was not he who had broken away fr...
is now dead (Jesus - The Quranic View, 2003). Those who would consider Jesus to be God, the Son of God, or part of a trinity are ...
them somehow" (Ancient Greek Religion and Mythology, 2003). For example, "The Egyptian goddess Isis was especially popular in Athe...
this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...
eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...
they conquered. MAYAN CIVILIZATION: THE SPANISH INVASION The typical Maya family consisted on average of five to seven members. ...
it means "partiality of cultural and historical truths" (1986) because the whole truth cannot be known in anthropological studies ...
life of their own, relegated to minding the household chores, raising the children and looking after a husband who never recognize...
deal of architectural, cultural and religious renovation and change. Summary & Critique Necipoglus article compares the Hagia Sop...
type of religious experience generally is most closely associated with the Christian perspective. In his discussion of this...
varied types of ritual which characterize her new home and the interrelationships between the various members of her new family. ...