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Cardinal John Henry Newman and Flannery O'Connor

the contemporary novels of today. Rather, they are a means to an end. That end, of course being to illustrate Christian mysteries ...

Christianity vs. Neopaganism: The Human Condition, Theodicy and Soteriology

Christians view the human condition as being integrally tied with the fact that we were created in the image of God. While we som...

The Golden Age: The Political Concepts of Islam by Ira Lapidus and The Community in Islamic History by Hamilton A.R Gibb

custodians of the true Islam. This, it is argued, reflect in the way that the states have evolved today and the different models t...

Religion, Social Stability, and Machiavelli's Discourses On Titus Livius

This paper examines Machiavelli's Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius. The author discusses Machiavelli's views on...

Age of Enlightenment and Religious Views on God?

In eight pages this paper discusses the Ages of Reason and Enlightenment in a consideration of how God was viewed by the Jewish an...

Theological views on Euthanasia

In five pages theological views on euthanasia and assisted suicide are examined in a conclusion that religion and not law should e...

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...

Religion and Sigmund Freud

The work that would lead Freud to be called the father of psychoanalysis stemmed from his great curiosity of the mechanisms by whi...

Leonard Levy's The Establishment Clause

In five pages this paper discusses Levy's conclusion that Congress's view of religious freedom was broad and that government was p...

Islamic and Hindu Religions on Death and Dying

In eight pages the ways these religions deal with dying and death through ritual and corpse disposition are compared and contraste...

Comparative Analysis of the Philosophies of Galileo, Descartes, and St. Augustine on Science and Religion

In five pages this report contrasts and compares these scholars views on science and religion. Three sources are cited in the bib...

China and India in the Eyes of the World

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the views the world holds of China and India. The writer pays particular attention to rel...

Arnold J. Toynbee and Pitirim Sorokin

In four pages these sociological theorists are contrasted and compared in terms of their views on human civilization's future and ...

Socrates' Life and Philosophies

In fourteen pages this paper examines Socrates in an overview of his life and philosophical views regarding law, religion, reason ...

French Revolution and Civility

In four pages the French Revolution period is considered within the context of religion according to Alexis de Tocqueville and civ...

Medieval Perspectives on Religion by Keith Thomas and Eamon Duffy Compared

the other hand, is quite different. Duffy sees the magical element as part of an overall religious system that was flexible, vibra...

Religion, Illusion, and the Theories of Sigmund Freud

the thanatos. Freudian theory holds that human personality is divided into three subsystems, the id, the ego, and the super...

Secular Society and Doubt and Belief

In five pages society's incorporation of religion is discussed in terms of several philosophical views that include mainstream rel...

Kierkegaard on Human Nature

or that their lives are even close to resembling those of the first disciples?" (as qtd. in Galli, 2002, p.62). He poses a good qu...

Toleration as Defined in 'A Letter Concerning Toleration' by John Locke

in order to ensure proper behavior among the worlds population, yet, Lockes critics asked who is to determine what this ethical co...

Christianity and Religion According to On Liberty and A Letter Concerning Toleration

of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...

Homosexuality and World Religions

represents a threat to those ideals is subject to punition" (Swidler). While the protection of womens morality is common throughou...

2 Articles on Education, Sex, and Religion Reviewed

proven to marginalize religion in America, seeking to "exclude it from the public square" (Jeynes, 2001, p. 31) and, thereby, reli...

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...

Medieval Individuality and Leadership

require freedom. It would not be until much later, during the latter part of the eighteenth century, that the world would see imme...

Romantic Era Human Rights and Religious Sentiments Represented by Mary Wollstonecraft

thousand years, which was directly related to the need for a shared responsibility for survival. This began to change, however, w...

Evil in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of Gods existence and the problem of evil, the journey of understanding...

Politics and the Incorporation of Religion by President George W. Bush

is found on the money used and in every courtroom in America, there is a bible used. However, as time goes on, and new ways of loo...

John Stuart Mill, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Hobbes

In six pages this research paper examines religion and the state as viewed by philosophers Mill, Rousseau, and Hobbes. Three sour...

Newman and Rousseau: Victorian and Romantic Ideas of Religion

support of it. If Rousseau is a Romantic and Newman a Victorian, it seems that the difference lies in the fact that Rousseau wants...