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with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...

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

view of reality that emphasizes a more Biblical approach to life. Through the "good" characters of the novel, principally Sissy, S...

acquired even consciousness as well as to have facilitated cultural productions, but excepting religion (2002). Whether Darwins t...

a religion. By practice, the Church of Scientology is a cult. Since practice and the effects on people are more important than she...

Board of Directors, by a two-thirds majority vote, can suspend or expel a member (PFWB, 1999). Issues that are grounds for expulsi...

can see this is Book IV, lines 32-113. It is perhaps this section that gives us the most intricate look at the theme of religion, ...

of all immigrants. Borrowing from their special talent with food, Italians grace the country with their wonderful cuisine and jov...

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

beliefs and the way in which such beliefs shape cultural practices and social infrastructures such as the law and the political sy...

were able to live cooperatively. What was "good" was whatever perpetuated the interests of given society and what was "bad" was an...

main issue with regard to English history of this period is the dichotomy between Catholic and Protestant, and the extent to which...

and strong source of comfort during times of extreme and intense suffering. People embrace religion because they are afraid of d...

merit. Indeed, religion is used to control the masses to some extent and people use religion for functional reasons. It helps them...

the children in orphanages" (Rieneck). It is not, however, the Irish immigrant or Irish Catholic who are trying to change the regi...

trade goods and to fulfill their desire for adventure. Everywhere the ventured they took along their religion and other lifeways....

enjoyment of what is good, not in the pride that he alone is enjoying it, to the exclusion of others. He who thinks himself more ...

the marshes, its breath that pushed the clouds, its voice that made the bells ring sweetly; and she stayed in adoration, enjoying ...

epic is a rendition of the ancient flood narrative that predates that of the biblical Noah. The Babylonian flood narrative pictu...

his epistle that "he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind ... he is a double-minded man, unstable in...

her endeavor to specialize in this sort of journalism. At the same time, there is no requirement for a journalist--even one specia...

Then M. Scott Peck comes along and tells them that this is to be expected and so, this self-help book begins at a level that is ra...

hopefulness here in Comala; instead, the air is heavy with an oppressive guilt that is positively stifling. It soon becomes readi...

In 4 pages, this research paper considers the rapid changes England underwent in terms of religion, economics, and politics, citin...

Mexico and other areas of central America, demonstrates a number of similarities with Egyptian culture: the main architectural for...

that the "most powerful reason (for believing in religion) is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is big brother wh...

great interest and considerable depth. His ongoing quest was not only to determine the role of religion within social confines bu...

conscious of the inevitable conflict between religion and the state. For that reason, they endeavored to keep the two as separate...

This concept, in and of itself, is the fundamentally defining element to Miss Helens persistence to uphold her own existence in th...

all available strategies and methodologies to minimize blood loss; salvage as much of the patients own blood as possible; and also...