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Essays 1951 - 1980

Hinduism and the Quest Escape Earthly Boundaries

Religion v Tradition A religion is typically described in relation to a god. Hinduism,...

TRUE RELIGION JEANS AND THE KEY TO SUSTAINABILITY

jeans that the celebrities wear. This is exactly what the True Religion Jeans marketing strategy focuses on. However, in th...

Science v Religion

our world which to some are unquestionable and indubitable. Foundational knowledge serves as the immovable and irrefutable corners...

The Modern Taoist and Yin Yang

by modern Taoists as well. It might be contended that in our modern world, however, that conflict is even greater. When consideri...

Modern Economic Growth - Europe as the Engine Driving Such Growth

the high rate of "structural transformation of the economy" (Kuznets 248). One such transformation is mentioned above: the shift o...

Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

builders were not foreigners or slaves, but Egyptians who lived in villages constructed specifically for this workforce ("Introduc...

Demographic Profile of Moreland

deliberation by people brought together by similar interests and common goals". All of these may be applied to the community of Mo...

Modern Masculinity/Tough Guise

of women include cosmetics, clothes, anything having to do with food preparation or childrearing. Products sold using images of me...

The Shaping of Buddhism and Jainism

Eastern religions share numerous similarities but there are also many contrasts....

Hinduism and its Sacred Elements

Hinduism is characterized by a complexity of sacred elements. Each of these elements has deep significance and meaning....

The Feminist Critic as Parlay to Modern Media

of these is how body image is represented in the media as a means of marginalizing and objectifying women. Burke reports t...

Hallucinogens in 3 Religions

of consciousness is required in order to fully understand and connect with a higher spiritual plane. Undoubtedly, the most common ...

Chaucer, St. Luke, Aristophanes and Their View of Social Issues

even screenwriters who disguise them as interesting stories. The original Star Trek was great at teaching these moral lessons whil...

Religion and Change from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

properly! Religion is, and always has been, a driving force in society. This was...

Self-Analysis of Automatic Attidudes

unacceptable to have negative attitudes towards different groups of people, e.g., different races. Despite the publicity and even ...

Traditional and New Religions

arise while old ones splinter, and although some hold out hope that interfaith work will lead to peace, others seem determined to ...

The Double Edged Sword of Ethnocentrism

This paper examines how our culture determines who we are and who we associate with. When politics and, in particular, religion e...

Our Founding Father's Views on State Supported Religion

In the earliest history of our country, indeed even in the formative years before the...

Christian Science/Overview

Rev. 3:7 (Slick, 2007). The Church of Christ (Scientist) was organized in 1879 in Boston, Eddy asserting that it constituted the r...

Modern Women and Lessons Learned from Lady Macbeth

under his own roof. One of the oldest of all human social laws is that a person cannot harm his guest. Its never been written down...

Brief Introduction to Jehovah's Witnesses and Catholicism Religions

Church. Priests are expected to be celibate, and sex is to be reserved for married couples only for the purpose of procreation. ...

Socrates, Religion And "The Apology"

millennia worth of philosophical comprehension of mans existence. For those who depend upon traditional practice to shepherd them...

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Islam

believe Jesus (Isa in Arabic) is the son of God, or the human incarnate of God (Hasan, 2009). However, in Islam, Jesus is regarde...

Sociological Theories and Religion

religion only if they understand the religions symbols and what those symbols mean (FortuneCity.com, 2009). There is a civil reli...

The Basics of Three Religion Typologies

the way one lives is inline with the beliefs, with worship activities not separated from daily activities. The numinous ma...

Proof Of God's Existence

broke the argument down in a much easier argument (Palmer, 2002). Descartes began with the premise that God is the only being who ...

Dostoevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor" - Analysis of Jesus' And The Grand Inquisitor's Goals

while the millions, numerous as the sands of the sea, who are weak but love Thee, must exist only for the sake of the great and st...

The Japanese Samurai

century, for example, the Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo attempted to overthrow the shogunate, the defacto government vying for power w...

Durkheim and Dawkins

and evolve (Durkheim, 1965). He argued that society had to be present within an individual, and that religion was a way of reinfor...

An Anthropological View of Ghosts

explained by motivation. In the case of this story, the idea that someone of a rather primitive culture is using the idea of posse...