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Hallucinations, Possession Trance And Religious Authenticity: Hollywood's Accurate Interpretation

benefit of any mutilating tool; Sands (2001) notes that to suggest this trance - or hallucination - is motivated by anything other...

Political Correctness: A Negative Impact on the Holidays

the season to mere consumerism" (Dwyer, 2004). As noted above, it is this "hypersensitivity" and our attempt to avoid offending an...

Place Of Religious Experience In Lawrence Kohlberg's Ideas Of Human Development

social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...

Religion in Early America

In five pages the original 13 American colonies are examined in terms of their diverse religious practices with the effects on wom...

Religious Change in America by Andrew M. Greeley

In five pages Greeley's text which discusses the changes in American religious observances is considered and reveals that contrary...

A World View and Personal Faith

14). Consequently, Barth began to formulate a personal theology based solely on scripture, virtually ignoring the theological prin...

Influence and Impact of Reverend Billy Graham

In nine pages the major political influence and religious impact of minister and evangelist Billy Graham are discussed within the ...

Comparative Analysis of Mohammed, Moses, and Jesus

In seven pages this paper attempts to determine the religious mythos' origins by examining these religious leaders in terms of the...

Religion in the Epic of Gilgamesh

In five pages the religious views of the Sumerians as represented in the Epic of Gilgamesh are contrasted and compared with contem...

Magic and Primitive Religion

In six pages this paper compares Catholic religious practices with the magic used in primal religious rituals with Kenneth Kuykend...

A Review of the Eighteenth Century Play The Love Suicides At Sonezaki

only option it seems is for him and Ohatsu to commit suicide. In the last lines of the poem he laments:...

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...

The Chosen by Chaim Potok and Religious Pluralism

In five pages this paper discusses religious pluralism within the context of Potok's novel and the religious patterns featured in ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Iraq, North Korea, and American Ill Will

the United States (Culture of North Korea, 2010). The capital of Pyongyang, which had been severely bombed by the United States d...

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...

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...

Criminal Justice Agency & Terrorism: Proposed Administrative Change

community include greater manpower to detain and interrogate, however, this does not necessarily equate to the need for greater fu...

Reducing Prejudice

contemporary forms of prejudice" (Dovidio et al, 1999, pp. 101-105). Intergroup contact as a method of reducing prejudice ...

Social Theory: Recreation, Leisure And Play

Peer Group Affiliation And Differences According To Residential Status, Subsistence Patterns, And Use Of Services" provide empiric...

Free Rider And Rational Choice Theory

free rider problem: "external or collective consequences of individual actions...[and] structures of communication and networks wh...

Solutions for Community Problems

addition to simply abiding the law and hoping for the best. Check points do help to resolve the situation. In White Plains, New Y...

Are Immigrants and Native Born minorities All Liberals

This paper considers the idea that immigrants and native born minorities can all be classified into the same political group and w...

African-American Youth Public Speaking And Community Relations

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

People Need Training to Become Effective Teams

Teamwork training is essential if teams are going to be effective. Teams need to learn specific skills to be effective, high-perfo...

Book Report Therapeutic Communities

One of the substance abuse treatment interventions that has been shown to be effective is the Therapeutic Community. Although this...

Groups Need Direction

A leader will emerge in every group. Groups and teams need direction if they are to achieve their goals. If a formal/official lead...