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Contemporary Religion of Japan

the sun, mountains, lakes, other aspects of nature and even some animals and humans and because of this Shinto is referred to as a...

Ethics and Religion According to Augustine and Aristotle

not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...

War and its Impact

are people today who chant slogans related to peace and give up notions of war, inclusive of defense. This is of course something ...

Homosexuality and World Religions

represents a threat to those ideals is subject to punition" (Swidler). While the protection of womens morality is common throughou...

Differences and Similarities Between Catholicism and Buddhism

Although there are definite directions provided in the Bible as to the follies of splitting into separate religions and sects, mod...

Personal Freedom and Religion

personal liberation through approaching everything in life as it relates to what Allah wants, not what the individual wants. There...

Durang's Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All and Moliere's Tartuffe Compared

is so powerful to witness how Moliere never overtly describes the religious hypocrisy at hand, but instead shows the fervor with w...

Christianity and Judaism and the Rites of Circumcision and Burial

signify the "blood of the covenant" (Geffen, 1993, p. 28). It is a time-honored ceremony that is concluded when a family member (...

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...

The People of 21st Century Japan

years ago. Economic integration almost precludes political confrontation" (Bovet 30). No country is immune from the crippling ef...

Positive World Change Through Hinduism

her own path but is not required to acknowledge an intermediary as a prophet (PG). In a revealed religion, if anyone denies the au...

September 11, 2001 and Terrorism

for Bin Laden and followers of him are everywhere. Or consider this report from the Pakistani newspaper The Nation: "September 11 ...

Is Scientology a Religion or a Cult?

by Lafayette Ron Hubbard and is not only incompatible with most of the worlds other religions, particularly Christianity, but open...

Comparing Covenants and Religions of Moses and Abraham

lifestyle and covenant can be found in the book of the Exodus. Peter Henderson compared these two lives and covenants using the Ne...

European History and Religion from the Sixteenth Century to Today

seventeenth century. During the Enlightenment, there was a change in thinking and a transitioning from religious thought to i...

Secular Society and Doubt and Belief

In five pages society's incorporation of religion is discussed in terms of several philosophical views that include mainstream rel...

Questions on Religion Answered

defined by the functional role of that state, rather than by proposed intrinsic features of that state. As this demonstrates, neit...

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...

Ethics, the Soul, and 'Allegory of the Cave' in the A. Bloom Translation of Plato's The Republic

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

Kierkegaard on Human Nature

or that their lives are even close to resembling those of the first disciples?" (as qtd. in Galli, 2002, p.62). He poses a good qu...

William Wordsworth's Poetry and Religion

then of trust when most intense, hence, amid ills that vex and wrongs that crush our hearts -- if here the words of Holy Writ may ...

Comparing Western and Eastern Religions

ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...

Freedom of Expressioin and Freedom of Religion in the Case of Otto-Preminger-Institut v. Austria

"Trivial imagery and absurdities of the Christian creed are targeted in a caricatural mode and the relationship between religious ...

2 Articles on Education, Sex, and Religion Reviewed

proven to marginalize religion in America, seeking to "exclude it from the public square" (Jeynes, 2001, p. 31) and, thereby, reli...

Answering Questions Science Cannot Through Religion

authority in all human action and interaction. But it is important to understand that regardless of the passage of time and the a...

Brunei and How Women Are Treated

military action. This to some extent mimics ideals around the world where women are protected from active combat. In the United St...

Good and Evil According to Immanuel Kant

one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...

Yugoslavian State Breakdown

Yugoslavia). Although the fighting stopped for the most part, there was no effort made for the various parties to actually resolv...

'Irish Conversation' Metaphor and Southwest Airlines

Clearly, the relationship between Southwest Airlines marketing division as guided by owner Herb Kelleher and the metaphoric Irish ...

Animism Religion

that a spiritual reality exists. "The concepts that humans possess souls and that souls have life apart from human bodies befor...