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Strong Congregations by Kennon Callahan

qualities that he identifies as intrinsic to small, strong congregations as the foundation for his chapters, building upon these t...

US Future and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

hold much power today. One author notes that the novel of Atwoods specifically seems to target "fundamentalist Protestants in Amer...

Views on the Social Practice of Gay Marriage

Bush Oppose Gay Marriage 14). The statement went on to pronounce heterosexual marriage as "holy, while homosexual acts go against...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Hypocrisy and Religion

particular excerpt almost seems to serve as an introduction to how religion is seen in the society of Huck Finn. The reader sees t...

Grace and Its Mystery in 'Revelation,' 'Good Country People,' 'Greenleaf' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

is true of the character Joy/Hulga in "Good Country People." Joy/Hulga has a heart condition, which prevents her from living the...

Mysticism, Religious Experience, and Faith

was commended as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must belie...

Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' and Religion

much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...

Increasingly Secular World and Beliefs

these religious belief systems is very purposeful. Freud demonstrates this in his definition of the German term Weltanschauung, w...

Religion, Ethics, and Taxes

tax fraud served to support the belief that religious leaders and people of faith are not exempt from immoral actions regarding mo...

Why Same Sex Marriage Should be Legal in the New Millennium

Not only are Christians against the idea that the sacrament of marriage be allowed for homosexuals, but the issue also permeates J...

Parable Of The Sower By Octavia E. Butler

hostile world. She prepares for the day she will leave. She seems to have also learned that even if she survives the journey she p...

Religious And Racial Stereotyping: Causes Many Problems In Today's Culture

categorization. Inasmuch as racial and religious stereotypes are both unreasonable and erroneous, such predisposed opinions about...

Questions on the Crusades

Cairo. Also, the recent deaths meant that there was a power vacuum and no decisive leadership anywhere. Therefore, Muslim forces n...

Understanding Terrorism Based Upon The Terrorist Act of 9/11

Security Research, no date), a point duly clarified by International Terrorism and Security Research: "The strategy of ter...

Reading as a Form of Resistance

imagine a more severe disparity of power than the one that exists in present-day Iran since its revolution and the institution of ...

Hebrew and Greek Legacy

BC) of the Jews that they set about truly "purifying their religion" (Hooker, 1996). It was during this period that they worked to...

Antigone/The Female Role in Society

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...

Kosovo Crisis: Military Intervention

world is robbing them of their right to self-determination" (Anonymous, 1999, p. 20). Historically the Serbs have always held Kos...

Salvation and the Old Testament

this account of Jesus ministry portrays it as a "coherent judgment comprising sin, chastisement and restoration" (Clifford and Ana...

Religious Quotations

This is the lesson here: that we cannot be full of self-importance because its misplaced. The second quotation is: ""Praise be to...

The Evolution Of Women - Feminism

in terms of political and economic equality. We can also say that political feminism officially began with the suffragette movemen...

U.S. Constitution and Policies of George W. Bush

has been asserted that in both cases the underlying aim is to accustom the public to the circumscription of civil liberties, the c...

4 Voyages in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

traveled to Lilliput, where there was a constant state of war between the Lilliputians and their bitter enemies, the Blefuscudians...

Women's Power Women's Passion by Patricia L. Hunter

humankind, then all women, regardless of ethnicity, class, varying abilities, or sexual orientation, are a part of Gods very good ...

Bible and Bhagavad Gita Compared

The Bible, on the other hand, has a much looser structure and was not written by a single author, or group of authors, at one part...

Religious Thought v. the Enlightenment

challenge to, the assertions of Jonathan Edwards. Ben Franklins autobiography is also characteristic of Enlightenment thought whi...

Biblical Imagery in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...

William James' 4 Saintliness Criteria and How They Apply to 13th Century Poet Rumi

yet another book, Annemarie Schimmels "Rumis World". William James lectured and wrote on what he referred to as "natural re...

Questions on Religion Answered

defined by the functional role of that state, rather than by proposed intrinsic features of that state. As this demonstrates, neit...

Aspects of Confucianism

collection of sayings which give a significant insight into Confucian thought and philosophy. The Book of Changes, for instance, i...