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African and Women Victimized by Violence

to this new law for Muslims, introduced in the northern states of Nigeria" (The Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002). She was to be stoned to...

Domestic Violence- Treatment of Male Abusers

have reason to hold such fears. Womens advocates have made headway over the years, however, in disseminating the information that...

Ethics and Religion According to Augustine and Aristotle

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...

Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Family

family may be seen as different make up where there is a carting and safe environment, This may mean not looking at the characteri...

Comparing Covenants and Religions of Moses and Abraham

lifestyle and covenant can be found in the book of the Exodus. Peter Henderson compared these two lives and covenants using the Ne...

European History and Religion from the Sixteenth Century to Today

seventeenth century. During the Enlightenment, there was a change in thinking and a transitioning from religious thought to i...

Comparing Western and Eastern Religions

ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

World Religion Characteristics

there are two different types of magic as it relates to religions of the world. There is sympathetic magic and contagious magic. "...

Yearley's Religious Plurality Perspectives in 'New Religious Virtues and the Study of Religion'

having inherent familiarity and truth, and others as alien in the sense of irrevocably different, and tempting in the sense that o...

Education and a Serious Religion Curriculum

between the teacher and the students. In the book, Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum, by Warren Nord and Charles Ha...

Religion, Creation Science, True Science, and S.J. Gould

not be empirically tested, and therefore could not be classed as true science, the creationists shifted their ground. Instead of m...

Religion in 'Beowulf' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

for his own wants as a man. Sir Gawains virtue is tested against the backdrop of religious implication when Bercilaks wife ...

Judeo Christian Religion and Blood Sacrifice

This sacrifice, however, did not require the sinner to relinquish his life, for God realized that would be too great a cost, so He...

Canada and Hockey's Culture of Violence

become a strong component of the national culture even for those who do not participate in the game. Canadian hockey divisions be...

Internet Violence and Pornography Issues

this research and to illuminate the real problems which are associated with pornography, particularly in regard to the World Wide ...

Ancient Egypt Religion and Mythology

land to appear with their nutrient rich soils. By day Ra sailed through the air on a boat between the sky and the earth, resting a...

Life, Salvation, and Religion

It can be said that his treatises on this subject had great influence on the study of redemption in later years, or in the vernacu...

School Violence, Poverty, Racism and the Nation's Schools

as a whole, or toward an individual because he (or she) is a member of that group" (Spencer, 1998, p. 25). By and large, schools ...

Questions on Religion Answered

defined by the functional role of that state, rather than by proposed intrinsic features of that state. As this demonstrates, neit...

Arnold, Stewart, and McNeece's 'Perpetrators as Victims Understanding Violence by Female Street-Walking Prostitutes'

potentially enter into this equation as well. Arnold, Stewart, and McNeece identify the fact that many prostitutes enter th...

Review of The Mystery Religions by Samuel Angus

maintain his claims. As one becomes lost in the unraveling of a very ancient tale, one becomes aware that the author is purposel...

Reason and Religious Belief An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Michael L. Peterson

corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...

Religion and Emily Dickinson

who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...

Religion and Consumer Behavior

students who were not religious consumed alcoholic beverages at a high rate then those students that professed religious faith. Fu...

Visual Arts and Religion

life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...

Religion and Racism Themes in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

the boy some cookies. Marlow meets one of the men from his company, on the street and joins him in his hut office, but after a sh...

Islamic Religion and Impacts of Culture

interpreted. Islam in particular has begun to serve as a point of confusion for the Western World as to exactly what its teaching...

United Kingdom and Domestic Violence

psychological abuse or neglect. It is also the case that domestic violence is not confined to particular socio-economic group, but...

Power and Violence in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

telling, the generality of it is that in the midst of brutality, magic still exists and in the never-ending search for power -- pe...