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The Influence of Music on Trahce in African Tradition Religions

The writer presents an examination of the role music plays in trance. The paper looks at both shamanic and possession trance, the ...

Questioning the Unquestionable Science and Our Belief in God

Human nature is to invent explanations for events and occurrences that are intuitively appealing. Example...

Different Types of Belief Systems

In this paper that consists of sections a Catholic personal belief system is developed and includes discussions about fundamentali...

Jack Weatherford's 'Native Roots'

This is a book review consisting of 5 page that supports his belief that the basic constructs of society, culture, and politics in...

Machiavelli's Political Philosophy

This paper examines the political beliefs of Niccolo Machiavelli, with an emphasis on his beliefs regarding evil in politics. Thi...

Christianity Today

Christianity is and always has been the dominant religious preference in the United States. It was founded on the philosophy of r...

Causes and Results of the First and Second World Wars

In the socio and political environment that resulted after World War I ended, there was probably even less chance of global...

Compare and Contrast: The Two World Wars

suppress anti-Habsburg activities, organizations, and propaganda and that Habsburg officials be permitted to join in the Serbian i...

The U.S. Civil War: Causes and Implications

deal of power because their populations were growing so much. At the same time, Southern States were losing power and they began t...

The Emotion of Art During Times of War

light - or enlightened. The evil part of humanity - the executioners, are beyond the light - in the literal and spiritual dark. F...

Religious Connotations of 'Just War'

with holy wars that are most familiar to Westerners are in the Old Testament. Exodus 32:27 tells of how God ordered the destructio...

"Sorrow Of War," "Perfume Dreams" And "In Country" - Review

one can readily argue how the expectations of such a first-hand experience lend themselves to the overlapping of uncontrolled chao...

The Entry of the United States into World War II

support for joining the war. Although it seemed as if the U.S. might become involved, the Americans were quite happy with Europe f...

Duality and War in Literature

won by any nation. Caputos work focuses on the primary character who remembers an innocence that will always live within him, bu...

Public School System and the Issue of Religion

be learning about other religions and religious tolerance. In August of 1995, the Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley ...

Yearley's Religious Plurality Perspectives in 'New Religious Virtues and the Study of Religion'

having inherent familiarity and truth, and others as alien in the sense of irrevocably different, and tempting in the sense that o...

Explanatory and Descriptive Reductionism

experience in religious terms, then it is not appropriate for others to describe it in terms of a purely physical experience (noti...

Religious Discrimination Or Not

it will not bode well with most major corporations. Religious discrimination is found in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 19...

Religion: Symbols, Systems, Thought and Practice

strong independent Church (based on the assumption of the Corpus Christianum common to all three confessions) through which he des...

Hallucinations, Possession Trance And Religious Authenticity: Hollywood's Accurate Interpretation

benefit of any mutilating tool; Sands (2001) notes that to suggest this trance - or hallucination - is motivated by anything other...

Place Of Religious Experience In Lawrence Kohlberg's Ideas Of Human Development

social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...

Political Correctness: A Negative Impact on the Holidays

the season to mere consumerism" (Dwyer, 2004). As noted above, it is this "hypersensitivity" and our attempt to avoid offending an...

Comparative Analysis of Mohammed, Moses, and Jesus

In seven pages this paper attempts to determine the religious mythos' origins by examining these religious leaders in terms of the...

The Chosen by Chaim Potok and Religious Pluralism

In five pages this paper discusses religious pluralism within the context of Potok's novel and the religious patterns featured in ...

Religious Theories of Emile Durkheim in The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

premises the concept that religion is rooted in the nature of things and that any system of belief which dos not have this groundi...

A Review of the Eighteenth Century Play The Love Suicides At Sonezaki

only option it seems is for him and Ohatsu to commit suicide. In the last lines of the poem he laments:...

Religion in the Epic of Gilgamesh

In five pages the religious views of the Sumerians as represented in the Epic of Gilgamesh are contrasted and compared with contem...

Magic and Primitive Religion

In six pages this paper compares Catholic religious practices with the magic used in primal religious rituals with Kenneth Kuykend...

Religion in Early America

In five pages the original 13 American colonies are examined in terms of their diverse religious practices with the effects on wom...

Religious Change in America by Andrew M. Greeley

In five pages Greeley's text which discusses the changes in American religious observances is considered and reveals that contrary...