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Religious Rituals of Judaism and Christianity

offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...

Japan and Spreading Western Religion

that they were in contrast to many of the characteristic elements of Japanese culture (4). By 1564, some say that the missionarie...

Irish Scholar Gareth Higgins

War I (Kazin, 1998, p. 16). As this suggests, pinning down the cultural meaning of Judeo-Christian tradition and scriptural teachi...

Zoroastrianism's Influences on World Religions

not accomplish this task until the end of time (Stepaniants, 2002). According to Zoroastrian cosmology, the history of humanity co...

Alexandria and Antioch Exegeses

discover which hermeneutical key to open each door (Blowers, 2004). Alexandria was based on a soteriological theology, which mean...

Contemporary Religion of Japan

the sun, mountains, lakes, other aspects of nature and even some animals and humans and because of this Shinto is referred to as a...

Early Christians' Success Factors

understand the draw to the marginalized groups such as the converted Jews, but to see the evidence which supported the recruit of ...

'Paradise Lost' by John Milton, Christianity, and Classics

very important fact when considering the relationship between the classics and Christianity in Miltons poem by stating the followi...

Christian Creeds, Confessions of Faith, Councils and Their Historical Significance

(Constitution, Apostles, 1996). The creed derived its name from the initial belief that it was written by the Apostles on the tent...

Hagia Sophia or the Church of the Holy Wisdom

analyzed the chemical composition of the cement through the use of an electron microscope. One of the scientists on the team descr...

Art and Europe's Christianity Rise

of art etched into wood tablets, metal and on engraving plates. The religious overtones were highly pronounced and most of the wor...

'Image of God' and Humanity Implications

of this passage implies that humanity resembles God, that is, that the human race is similar "in kind" in a manner that is analogo...

Christianity and Evolution Compatibility

To understand however how different Christian groups understand evolution, it is important to understand the two different formula...

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...

Christianity and Buddhism

other part of the Roman empire. Merely associating with non-Jews was believed to make a Jewish person unclean" (Rosser, 1995). How...

Self Mastery Similarities in John Cassian's Conference I, Hinduism, and Buddhism

laborer such as a farmer, a tradesman or one in the military3. Like in any other profession, in order to obtain his goal, a monk m...

God's Doctrine as Interpreted by Gordon Kaufman, Pamela Young, and Sallie McFague

evil, was literally personified in the body of evil curses, evil spirits and superstitions. Now, of course, for the most part peop...

Modern World Strategies and Religion

They believe that there is only one acceptable religion and that is theirs. Things are beginning to change in modern society, how...

Christianity and the Wrong Views of Friedrich Nietzsche

by those in a particular sect of Christianity, there would be more purity in the Christian religions. Yet, this is not the case an...

Post Second World War European Politics and Christianity

and social forces in Europe. The European Union is more actively supported it is found, by the more affluent and economically sou...

Reflections on Confucianism and Christianity

and man. This was accomplished by the assumption of the worlds sins by His son, Jesus Christ, who was crucified and was seen alive...

Hinduism and Christianity Ethics

is greater than respect for other life, social justice and peace. Ignorance and the ongoing struggle to obtain inordinate securit...

Christian Views on the Islamic Prophet Muhammad

however, given the current state of world affairs it is imperative that we gain a better understanding of it. A number...

Similarities and Differences That Exist Among Global Religions

that their God will ultimately rule the world, that the Jews have established the doctrines of faith and hope as the "two most pro...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and its Themes

at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price o...

Concept of Divinity of God

that there is "within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted i...

Transgendered, Transsexual, and Homosexual Individuals and Religion

sex with a male, after the manner of sex with a woman, they have both committed an abomination, they shall surely be killed" (Quot...

A Discussion of Christian Elements in the Epic Poem Beowulf, and in the Character of Beowulf Himself

the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...

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...

Christianity and Worldview

the way for a great number of other inventors to follow, as well as establishing a changing trend in the way the world viewed tech...