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The Dalai Lama: A Religious Celebrity?

no one particular leader who "heads up" the religion the way the Pope is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church (Das, 2007). The ...

The Same Sex Marriage Debate and Religious Discourse

the fight against same-sex marriage being legalized is largely influenced by religious ideology in the legislative and constitutio...

Religious Experience and the Brain

understandings, such as the idea that "the role of personal beliefs, expectations and experiences may interject bias into the inte...

Religious Affiliation and Prayer

the participants were active churchgoers and had voted in the 2004 presidential election (Hanek, Olson, & McAdams, 2011). The samp...

Akhenaten: Heretic Not Religious

innovative leader whose combined perspective and actions serve to bring about positive change. While in one negative sense, Akhen...

THE PROBLEM WITH RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

home for a variety of reasons. One of the main reasons is the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The clause, "Congr...

Religious Beliefs, Importance to Nursing

This paper considers the role of patients' religion and how it should impact nursing care. The writer focuses on the way in whic...

Politics Morals Religious and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

This paper asks the question of whether the most vociferous members of society are now directing medicine in a way that diverts re...

NDEs and Religious Ministers

Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...

Religious Influences in the Music of Charles Ives

reworked" into passages that frequently sound "hymnic" (Tawa 67-68). As pointed out by Robert Bellah, Christianity, and the Jude...

History Of Religious Orders and Monasticism

(Marshall, nd). The basic principles of monasticism are found in Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Jainism and the Sufi br...

'The Life You Save May Be Your Own' by Flannery O'Connor and Religious Themes

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

Mayan Empire's Ritual and Religious Practices

they conquered. MAYAN CIVILIZATION: THE SPANISH INVASION The typical Maya family consisted on average of five to seven members. ...

Composition of a Higher Renaissance Religious Mass

the opening, your next task is to turn to a declamatory delivery of the words "ut animalia viderent Dominium natum" (that the anim...

Religious Diversity, Biology, and Memes

(p. 434). How evolutionary theory (via Darwin and Dawkins) aids in understanding human migration, cultural development and social...

Religious Connotations of 'Just War'

with holy wars that are most familiar to Westerners are in the Old Testament. Exodus 32:27 tells of how God ordered the destructio...

Islamic and Hinduism Religious Concepts of Death

and that death impacts the body and soul, the impact differs based on the religious practices. Islam believes that ones sou...

Women and the Problems of Their Religious Ordination

father, son and holy ghost (Ferrara, 1994). There is also the belief that because Jesus was a male, those who follow in his foots...

3 Reviews on Religious Books

a thumbnail description of the rise of modern science beginning in the sixteenth century. This discussion offers insight into this...

Slavery & Religious Principles

feet" (Grimke 2)(all citations refer to the page number in the source document transmitted by the student researching this topic)....

Religious Fundamentalism and its Dangers

first arose, "on the basis that fundamental principles upon which the larger religious group is supposedly founded have become cor...

Culture, Politics, and Religious Faith

a precarious adventure in the Middle East the motives for which are mixed. While Bush and other politicians make it clear that the...

Religious Pilgrimages, Architecture, and Art

the numbers of pilgrims on the roads (Petersen, 2005). These churches were characterized by "thick heavy walls which support sto...

Religious Plurality Views

through Me" (Vlach, 2007). However, Judaism and Islam are also exclusive religions (Vlach, 2007). They may admit or acknowledge th...

Romantic Era Human Rights and Religious Sentiments Represented by Mary Wollstonecraft

thousand years, which was directly related to the need for a shared responsibility for survival. This began to change, however, w...

Death, Religious Faith, and Resurrection

memorial prayer for the dead: "O God full of compassion, who dwell on high, grant perfect peace under the wings of the Shekhinah, ...

Literary Religious Themes, Symbolism, and Imagery

rejected this kind of philosophical process. In Chapter 27, Forster wrote: The chief point was that God lives inside the sun,...

THE RELIGIOUS PHILOSPHY OF WILLIAM BLAKE

was raised a Catholic, he was christened in St. James Church (Eaves et al). During his childhood, Blake was surrounded by visions ...

Religious Profiling Or Reasonable Outreach?

or social sect are potential perpetrators merely by association. This reflects the harm principle of this situation, inasmuch as ...

Story of the Religious Leader Joshua

learned from Moses instruction (Hammer, 1995). When Joshua would become a ruler in his own right, he would always follow Moses ex...