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Richard Dunn's The Age of Religious Wars

II of France met on neutral ground in the bishops palace...to arrange a peace treaty between their respective masters...they both ...

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...

American Religion and the 2003 Film Bruce Almighty

how dependent upon technology the average citizen has become in everyday life. The fact that God initially contacted Bruce via hi...

Paul Heelas' The New Age Movement The Celebration of the Self and the Secularization of Modernity

The New Age religious movement is the focus of this review of Paul Heelas' The New Age Movement The Celebration of the Self and t...

Religious Theories of Emile Durkheim in The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

premises the concept that religion is rooted in the nature of things and that any system of belief which dos not have this groundi...

Allegories in The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

to friends to see what their feelings were about what he had written. He explains that some told him it was wonderful while other...

The Weeping Prophet

The Book of Jeremiah is the longest book in the Bible containing more words than any other book. The greatest majority of the Book...

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...

Topographical Approaches to Architectural History

"quiet zone of large mansions and parks."iv While a large tract of land was needed for the building of the cathedral, this locatio...

The Myths of Innovation (Book Review Summaries and Analysis)

the processes used by several investors, something that might be used as inspiration (Matazan, 2008). The gist of this review, asi...

Religious Rights In The Workplace

heretofore been clean-shaven for the previous fourteen years of employment. His abrupt demand to be allowed to serve food with fa...

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Book Review)

the work very quickly and this is attributable to the quality of the writing. An example comes from the first paragraph in the fir...

The World is Flat (Book Review)

insights from Friedman (2005) and the recognition that things are definitely changing, one is inclined to explore the new dynamic ...

Book Review of Dorothy Roberts' Killing the Black Body Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

with knowledge. Dorothy Roberts "Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty" is a reflection of that ...

Book Review of Rosalind Rosenberg's Divided Lives, American Women in the Twentieth Century

to be the homemakers, the wives, the mothers, the caregivers. Women were alternately placed on a pedestal and held in subservienc...

Explanatory and Descriptive Reductionism

experience in religious terms, then it is not appropriate for others to describe it in terms of a purely physical experience (noti...

Book Review of Theda Perdue's Cherokee Women Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835

Perdue (1999) examines the role of gender in Cherokee life during one of the most turbulent times of their history. During the...

Reviewing The Book of the Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch by Thomas Mann

are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...

Reviewing Books on Architectural Design and Culture Building

wiring, plumbing, etc...have to be changed out every few decades or so. Space and stuff are the last to s layers in Brands book....

Book Review of Ann Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

would dare to challenge the social mores to effect societal change. She would become on of the first blacks to protest unfair trea...

A Review of Mike Rose's Book, Lives on the Boundary

house. Sometimes that extended to taking Mike to the large library downtown. Lou would teach Mike about astronomy, taught him how ...

A Book Review of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men

under surveillance. The government does all they can to frustrate the story, sending them erroneous leads which go nowhere. In fac...

Black American Perspectives on Death and Dying from a Religious View

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

Book Review of James Fallow's Breaking the News How the Media Undermine American Democracy

the press separating itself from its ability to act as a public forum for political issues. Fallow brings to our attention ...

Samuel Adams Radical Puritan Book Review

in his life. ""Delivering five children, three deaths among them took a heavy toll on Elizabeth...Elizabeth died on 25 July" (Fow...

Book Review of Burton Gordon Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Malkiels particularly applicable considerations is the fact that risk capacities vary for individual investors according to a numb...

Book Review of Story of Zahra by Hana al Shaykh

finds problems there, too, when her uncle becomes sexually interested in her and she agrees, in order to fend of his advances, to ...

Summarizing and Reviewing Four Spirtuality Articles and Books

writers in this genre do the same thing, Andrews does seem to provide an extra sense of authenticity as dialogue is included to de...

Book Review of Morningstar Mercredi's Fort Chipewyan Homecoming, A Journey to Native Canada

home, Matthew normally lives one year with his mother and the following year with his father. This introduces a number of complex...

Public School System and the Issue of Religion

be learning about other religions and religious tolerance. In August of 1995, the Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley ...