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throughout most of Western history, Christianity has practiced active and persistent racism against Jews, as European pogroms agai...
revelations of Judaism and then Christianity, but draws the story onward to yet another climax" (Neusner, 2006). Neusner says that...
the rulers. The differences between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam developed over a number of centuries, for many y...
prayers. This is very different in Islam. As most of us should know by now, Muslims pray five times each day, each time facing Me...
Buddha perceived many faults with the status quo approach to religion. He consequently proposed radical alternatives advocating i...
to religion and instead evaluates religion solely on how well a particular form of religion serves the purposes of the state. Rous...
painful as are disease and old age. It is painful not to have what we would like to have (Lorentz, 2007). In other words, life is ...
increasingly marginalized from public and private spheres. Once upon a time, prayer was permitted in public schools, and no one t...
of God were those of the Old Testament, then came Jesus, whom they consider to be another divine prophet, and then Mohammad, the l...
tomatoes and carrots: eating the tomato does not adversely affect the tomato plant; eating a carrot kills the plant. Buddhism ...
faith, new scientific discoveries and theories appear to be offering support for many traditional religious views, particularly in...
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...
America, by contrast, embraces a decidedly more individualistic notion of cultural behavior by virtue of its capitalistic existenc...
us a clear distinction between religion of men and God. He indicates that when he was chosen for a particular master and job he fe...
were any medical practitioners (Dworkin 3). The major obstacle in incorporating Eastern traditions into modern medicine has been ...
was the reaction of Europeans to many aspects of Eastern culture when they first encountered it. However, Parrinder indicates that...
to focus on the therapeutic relationship. Counselor C, who is a biblical counselor, rejects all secular approaches and turns to Sc...
personal unconscious, there is also "an infinitely more important collective unconscious" (Connolly 151). This refers to a "repos...
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...
hold families together as some claim. Some experts believe that Protestant sects do little to hold families together, unlike Catho...
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...
adherents and the West. Features of Hinduism Many Hindus endorse the idea of a transcendent God that exists "beyond the universe,...
of other races. In the worst manifestation of this characteristic we have discrimination or even hate crimes. This characteristi...
in the physical world was a constant battle between good and evil (Traditional Zoroastrianism). The major source for the teachings...
body, so, too, can the thought of God(or what he/she expects of a person) possibly influence the world, or motivate a culture into...
however, which is present in all Native American Religions. That element is the integral tie between Native American spirituality...
study the primitive, not because there was any one point in time at which religion could have been said to have begun, but because...
This 5 page paper discusses the fact that Osama bin Laden and his followers are Muslims, and that Islam claims to be a peaceful re...
In five pages this paper examines four chapters from The Future of Religion edited by William Swatos in a consideration of the rel...
In this paper consisting of six pages the religions of Protestantism, Catholicism, and Buddhism are considered within the context ...