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no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...

throughout most of Western history, Christianity has practiced active and persistent racism against Jews, as European pogroms agai...

and too mysterious to be reduced to a slogan on a bumper sticker, and yet that is what has happened (Wells, 1994). The reason fo...

the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...

complex or larger than many families. In this basic setting one can see how the family is affected by the power of the nation an...

as a necessity of life as food, water, and comfort. The people who make no effort to know God cannot understand the world in whic...

to merge . This would seem to be a level in ones spiritual development, in fact, it would be the final level on earth since Nirvan...

Claire persisted - "But God will end good people to hell?" The Pastor also commented that since he did not know what was in the ma...

nature worship, and may have in common the 3 kind of occultism: Divination, witchcraft (magic) and spiritism, with the sacrifice o...

to happen. There is also the reality wherein a being that is powerful enough to create the entire world is far beyond...

adorned with art, sculpture and other adornments. He even included the Pope in his negative comments (Encyclopedia of World Biogra...

talking about Ulysses and his struggles to get home after the Trojan War: "So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck ...

1584. Menocchio declared: "in my opinion, all was chaos... and out of that bulk a mass formed - just as cheese is made out of milk...

other and as such their need to survive was often driven by their separation. Another example of survival can be seen in the rel...

afterlife, gods and worship, adventure and achievement, and legacy. The gender roles and children depicted in The Epic of Gilgame...

idea of a virtuous republican citizen similar to how one might consider a citizen today. To give power and authority to the indivi...

East Asia (Fiero, DATE). This religion provided "spiritual unity and cultural cohesiveness to people of a wide variety of language...

arranges marriages, though she also comes from a culture that, according to Indian standards, "Kerala is well known for its relati...

in the earliest forms of the Roman Creed but it was not until 360 that the word Catholic was added to the Creed in the West (Thurs...

warrior society that Beowulf invokes derives from these "newcomers" to the British Isles. Abrams, et al also state that in this wa...

In four pages concepts of religion, God, and transcendence are considered in a comparative analysis of Kant's philosophy and Hegel...

with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...

America, they worked very hard to convert the Native American Indians, who obviously did not believe in Jesus Christ. The new set...

human origins. He discusses the beliefs maintained by the three major Semitic religions and then discusses the role of Charles Dar...

As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...

addresses the divine" (Smith PG). Greek mythology is replete with examples of how anthropomorphic gods influenced cultural behavi...

tells the reader that all the Romans desired, and more, would actually be found in the City of God. This is not to say that moneta...

Chief among notable theologians to undertake study of this matter is Jurgen Moltmann, and his philosophy is often referred to as t...

so clearly it is evident why the Indian people placed such importance on caste and took the entire system so seriously....

these characteristics he is able to become a wealthy landowner and politician in the town of Eatonville. In fact, Hurston indicate...