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The Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

"tumbles" his family into a "financial ruin from which they do not recover for two generations" (Bottum 64). Clarence finds that a...

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

theater is a reflection of the way people think and behave. It is also a precursor to where the society is going because it invol...

Religion and Why It Should be Studied

of people may have a completely different set of beliefs from another tribe. We do not even need to know what their beliefs were i...

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...

Passion, Influences, and Martyrdom of Perpetua

equal before God, including women. Indeed, the road to female freedom and self-expression has been paved with patriarchal intoler...

Gays and Stereotyping

lose weight for genetic reasons and that of course they would be thin if it were possible. Similarly, homosexuals claim that their...

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...

Dharma and Hinduism

Hindus in that they also believe that dharma is a natural universal law which is in and pervades everything. To live in harmony wi...

Thomas Aquinas and David Hume on Religious Morality

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

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. "...

U.S. Foreign Policy and Religious Persecution

pertaining to religious persecution have never received as much attention in the US as other forms of discrimination (Wales 579). ...

Overview of the Issue of Religious Persecution

can occupy the same country (Robinson). For example, Bosnia (which has seen a great deal of religious persecution) is home to Roma...

India and Hinduism

Interestingly enough, the Hindu religion is not one single religion per se, but rather, a collection of customs, traditions, belie...

Analyzing 'The Great Armada' Chapter of Herman Melville's Moby Dick

vengeance". This passage highlights an extreme sense of violence, and reveals the chaos and out-of-control nature of the...

Jesus in the Qua-ran and in the Bible

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 ...

'The Life You Save May Be Your Own' by Flannery O'Connor and Religious Themes

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

Religious Influences in the Music of Charles Ives

reworked" into passages that frequently sound "hymnic" (Tawa 67-68). As pointed out by Robert Bellah, Christianity, and the Jude...

History Of Religious Orders and Monasticism

(Marshall, nd). The basic principles of monasticism are found in Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Jainism and the Sufi br...

Christianity History and Significance of 'Church Order'

holding certain truths? The members of the Church are united, not by their belief in certain men, but by their belief in certain ...

Christ's Charge to Peter Drawing by Raphael

In seven pages this origin of this drawing is examines as Raphael's background in terms of what religious and social influences im...

Saving Grace by Lee Smith and Religious Psychosis

In 5 pages Reverend Shepard's religious 'psychosis' is examined in an analysis of Lee Smith's novel. There are no other sources l...

Hindu Religious Text Bhagavad Gita

In five pages this religious work is critically examined and considers how maintenance of the social status quo is a primary featu...

Intellect and Emotion in Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'

This paper addresses religious rationalism versus romantic passion in Nathanial Hawthorne's nineteenth century novel. This five p...

Middle East's Religious States and Secular Nationalism

religion has become globalized over the past three decades, it has taken on a decidedly different fa?ade: that of what is contrary...

Medieval Iberia Readings from Christian, Muslim and Jewish Sources and Religious Identity

In five pages this paper examines how in Medieval Iberia, Christians, Muslims, and Jews endeavored to establish their own religiou...

Victorian Age Literature, Despair, and Depression

In eleven pages the Victorian era feelings of despair and depression that were the result of various religious, economic, and tech...

Fifteenth Century Religious Art in France and Russia

the quality of lace. The faces and hands of these icons appear almost as burnished leather, but that may be due either to the age...

Moral Arguments on Euthanasia

potential for legal action against them. The idea of taking ones own life is also deemed as suicide (Pope John Paul II PG, Conwel...

The Issues Surrounding Abortion

A paper containing 8 pages the history of abortion, its evolving legal status as well as medical, social, and religious aspects of...