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Religion and its Origins According to Various Theorists

came about simply because it is true. Theories about Gods existence have been around for quite some time. There is Descartes proo...

NonWestern Religions and Their Completeness

actual word, religion, comes from literally means bound to(Larue 2004). Thus, a person is dedicated toward living a certain way, b...

Scientology and Its Impact on Actor Tom Cruise

its members. From this perspective it is easy to see that Scientology has more than likely had as negative of an impact on Tom Cr...

Divorce in America

hold families together as some claim. Some experts believe that Protestant sects do little to hold families together, unlike Catho...

What is Hinduism?

adherents and the West. Features of Hinduism Many Hindus endorse the idea of a transcendent God that exists "beyond the universe,...

Islam, Hinduism, Christianity and Women

study the Vedas. This particular Hindu book says that women "are entirely worthless creatures" (Dharma Universe, 2010). Even so,...

Contemporary Muslim Women

womans role in relation to her society in somewhat different ways. The differences between the Shia and Sunni sects are particula...

Western Religion - Trends

faith, new scientific discoveries and theories appear to be offering support for many traditional religious views, particularly in...

U.S. South Before the Civil War, Slaves, and the Role Played by Religion

conditions as they relate to the white man instilling religion into the slaves of the South. "In the 1780s, Methodists--who repr...

Attending Church and Religion

of voluntary association, such as union membership (Bruce, 2002). He also discusses the advent of television evangelism and the da...

Government and Religion

To Kennedy, religion is personal and private and the nation should really not scrutinize his religious activity nor any other poli...

Religion in the Modern World

with ardour and faith" this is much broader, but may also be argued as week, as according this not only those beliefs that are hel...

Jung & Maslow On Religion

personal unconscious, there is also "an infinitely more important collective unconscious" (Connolly 151). This refers to a "repos...

Comparing Islam, Judaism, and Christianity

their complex social and cultural mores. Tradition was therefore rooted in the memory of the people as was the physical and moral...

Literature of Early Africa and Identity

how Africa had been at some point before its development. While the old works cited above do provide a sense of identity for the p...

Spirituality & Religion in Counseling

to focus on the therapeutic relationship. Counselor C, who is a biblical counselor, rejects all secular approaches and turns to Sc...

Buddhism: Sacred Text v. Ritual

Buddha perceived many faults with the status quo approach to religion. He consequently proposed radical alternatives advocating i...

Questions of Religion

revelations of Judaism and then Christianity, but draws the story onward to yet another climax" (Neusner, 2006). Neusner says that...

Religious Beliefs and the Theories of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx

study the primitive, not because there was any one point in time at which religion could have been said to have begun, but because...

America’s Founding Fathers, the First Amendment of the Constitution, and the ‘Separation of Church and State’

increasingly marginalized from public and private spheres. Once upon a time, prayer was permitted in public schools, and no one t...

Hanbali Islam; The Religion of Saudi Arabia

the rulers. The differences between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam developed over a number of centuries, for many y...

Overview of Hinduism

In eleven pages this research paper examines Hindu principles, beliefs, text, yoga importance, and the religion's Western signific...

Appeal of the Gnostic Religion

a simple one - they would provide man with Knowledge, and allow him "to control his own destiny When discussing the Gnostics it ...

Society, Religion, and Art of the Renaissance

In three pages this paper examines the society, religion, and art of the Renaissance with a consideration of the importance of rel...

Commonality of Family Dysfunction in 'Go Tell It On the Mountain' by James Baldwin

In 5 pages the common themes of family dysfunction and religion's 'being saved' are examined within the context of this story by J...

Concepts of God

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

Religion in Vietnam and America

This research paper contrasts and compares the principal religions of the U.S. and those of Vietnam, whilc also discussing the inf...

Modern Medicine and Religious Traditions of the East

were any medical practitioners (Dworkin 3). The major obstacle in incorporating Eastern traditions into modern medicine has been ...

Democracy and Religion's Contribution

democracy is as fearlessly new today as when it was first proposed. "If it does not have to be reinvented, it certainly has to be ...

Mohammad and Jesus

of God were those of the Old Testament, then came Jesus, whom they consider to be another divine prophet, and then Mohammad, the l...