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Religious Diversity, Biology, and Memes

(p. 434). How evolutionary theory (via Darwin and Dawkins) aids in understanding human migration, cultural development and social...

'The Life You Save May Be Your Own' by Flannery O'Connor and Religious Themes

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

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...

History Of Religious Orders and Monasticism

(Marshall, nd). The basic principles of monasticism are found in Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Jainism and the Sufi br...

Religious Perspectives on Homosexuality

views regarding homosexuality. The Catholic and Jewish religions are unique in their adaptations, however, in that church doctrin...

Middle Ages and Daily Religious Involvement

by parishioners. By the Middle Ages, most of Europe still lived under feudalism; that which did not was purely barbaric. T...

Comparative Analysis of Sedes Sapientiae and Nataraja Religious Statues

In five pages differences and similarities are compared and contrasted as far as the cultural settings, presentation, interpretati...

Global Religious Perspectives on the Soul

out the names of his ancestors" (Hauser, 1990). Every eight days, the tribal chief ritually provides a full meal for all the ance...

Religious Change and 1569's Northern Rebellion

to begin before the date of the rebellion and consider the events that lead to the events, as well as the events themselves. Bac...

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...

Women and the Problems of Their Religious Ordination

father, son and holy ghost (Ferrara, 1994). There is also the belief that because Jesus was a male, those who follow in his foots...

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...

Modern Medicine and Religious Traditions of the East

were any medical practitioners (Dworkin 3). The major obstacle in incorporating Eastern traditions into modern medicine has been ...

Literary Religious Themes, Symbolism, and Imagery

rejected this kind of philosophical process. In Chapter 27, Forster wrote: The chief point was that God lives inside the sun,...

Religious Pilgrimages, Architecture, and Art

the numbers of pilgrims on the roads (Petersen, 2005). These churches were characterized by "thick heavy walls which support sto...

Culture, Politics, and Religious Faith

a precarious adventure in the Middle East the motives for which are mixed. While Bush and other politicians make it clear that the...

Romantic Era Human Rights and Religious Sentiments Represented by Mary Wollstonecraft

thousand years, which was directly related to the need for a shared responsibility for survival. This began to change, however, w...

NDEs and Religious Ministers

Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...

Religious Experience and the Brain

understandings, such as the idea that "the role of personal beliefs, expectations and experiences may interject bias into the inte...

The Same Sex Marriage Debate and Religious Discourse

the fight against same-sex marriage being legalized is largely influenced by religious ideology in the legislative and constitutio...

Religious Affiliation and Prayer

the participants were active churchgoers and had voted in the 2004 presidential election (Hanek, Olson, & McAdams, 2011). The samp...

Politics Morals Religious and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

This paper asks the question of whether the most vociferous members of society are now directing medicine in a way that diverts re...

The Importance of Religious Stories

investigation of the dhamma, energy, rapture or happiness, calm, concentration, and equanimity" (Thera, 2009). The story entitle...

Peach and Gale's Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs in the new religious landscape of England

in the United Kingdom" and focus on changes primarily between the middle to the end of the twentieth century (Peach & Gale, 2003)....

Religious Freedom Thanks to Rodger Williams

in large part because they wanted to be allowed to practice religion as they saw fit. Given that, its odd to note that the society...

3 Reviews on Religious Books

a thumbnail description of the rise of modern science beginning in the sixteenth century. This discussion offers insight into this...

Religious Fundamentalism and its Dangers

first arose, "on the basis that fundamental principles upon which the larger religious group is supposedly founded have become cor...

The Dalai Lama: A Religious Celebrity?

no one particular leader who "heads up" the religion the way the Pope is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church (Das, 2007). The ...

Witches and the Religious Majority in Preindustrial Europe

the Middle Ages progressed and a series of devastating events would lead the preindustrial European continent into mass witch hyst...

Slavery & Religious Principles

feet" (Grimke 2)(all citations refer to the page number in the source document transmitted by the student researching this topic)....