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Subjective Truth and Soren Kierkegaard's Philosophy

by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...

Modern Religion Evolution

have been formulated that propose how religious observance may have come about. One of the first theories proposed pertaining to ...

African American Religion and How It Originated

west coast of Africa, but even within this area religious traditions varied greatly" (African-American Religion in the Nineteenth ...

The Buddha, the Prophet, and the Christ by F.H. Hilliard

heaven by his own choice (26). Although has the section on Islam next, chronologically, Christianity came next with Christs birt...

Rushdie/Thematic similarities/Ayesha and Gibreel

portray this relationship as one built upon and surviving from an incongruous association perpetuated by greed and power. The stu...

Anatomy of the Sacred

methods presented by Livingston, and where they may well fit, we provide a brief look at the approaches, beginning with literary c...

Metaphysical Perspectives of Georges Bataille

teachings concerning the Void, which is expressed in the Upandishads and the Gita (Continuity/Discontinuity). From this viewpoint,...

Women and the Effects of Male Bias

the Type-Writer Girl" (Keep, 1997, p. 401). Interestingly enough, Kipling further questioned one of these "girls," only to learn t...

Joe Christmas in Light in August by William Faulkner

black as synonymous with good and evil that immediately plunges Joe into an emotional turmoil, from which he never completely dise...

Christianity versus Judaism Beliefs

Holy Ghost/Spirit (Faigin, 2002). This difference is directly related to belief in Jesus. Judaism does not accept Jesus Christ a...

Religion and Sigmund Freud

The work that would lead Freud to be called the father of psychoanalysis stemmed from his great curiosity of the mechanisms by whi...

Taoism, Confucianism, and Hinduism,

2002). It is the dominant religion in India and Nepal Dating back to prehistoric times, it is no surprise that Hinduism has had a...

Religion and Marxian Communism

a religious group can provide people with a support group and for societies which have based on larger religions, the leadership w...

Religion, Illusion, and the Theories of Sigmund Freud

the thanatos. Freudian theory holds that human personality is divided into three subsystems, the id, the ego, and the super...

Thomas Aquinas and David Hume on Religious Morality

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

Education, Religion, and Theories of Emile Durkheim and August Comte

forces replace supernatural beings as the explanation for "original causes and purposes of things in the world" (Ritzer 90). The...

Religion in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

on a culture. Indeed, to mask such somber episodes as Umuofias abrupt European colonization as being an important part of global ...

Literacy and Religion

their function was only to labour. As Wood (2002) points out, historians tend to measure levels of literacy by the percentage of a...

Deception in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale'

"General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales, is one of only two pilgrims who tells no story of his own (Conlee 36). While critic J...

Ancient Writings Like Epic of Gilgamesh and Ideology

purposes of taming Enkidu, the wild man (Radcliffe, 2001). Enkidu is important to the story as he exemplifies the average man in s...

Canto 3 of 'Inferno' by Dante

Dante used the framework of the poem to convey his ideas concerning religion and morality. An overview of Canto III and its level...

The Twenty-First Century and the First Century Compared

the Apostles in the Bible helps us realize that nearly a generation passed before the events of Jesus life were recorded into the ...

Public Schools, Religion, Drug Testing, and Children with Disabilities

In other words, the first amendment allows for prayer in school so long as educators and administrators do not lead the...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Cultural Products, and Religion

hairy feet. As this suggests, they are humble beings, not heroes. Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who is uncle to Frodo Baggins, entrusts ...

An Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity Overview

or what is referred to as tauba in Islam, is able to save a man (Salvation and the Afterlife, 2002). Therefore, Islam invites man...

Social Attitudes and the 'Mirror' of Religion

its way into common acceptance among the general public. While the current attitude toward this practice might still view it with...

Freudian Analysis of a Psychiatric Case Study

mind is comprised of Id, Ego and Superego. He is perhaps best known for his claims that psychoanalysis is the key to understandin...

Truth in Poetry

truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...

Voting Behavior and Religion

In ten pages this paper summarizes sixteen articles that consider how American voting patterns of behavior are influenced by relig...

Decline of Organized Religion and American Social Problems

idea that crime is caused by a change in social norms. V. Conclusion All of these things have in common is that they are thi...