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Religious Thought v. the Enlightenment

challenge to, the assertions of Jonathan Edwards. Ben Franklins autobiography is also characteristic of Enlightenment thought whi...

Biblical Imagery in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...

William James' 4 Saintliness Criteria and How They Apply to 13th Century Poet Rumi

yet another book, Annemarie Schimmels "Rumis World". William James lectured and wrote on what he referred to as "natural re...

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...

Aspects of Confucianism

collection of sayings which give a significant insight into Confucian thought and philosophy. The Book of Changes, for instance, i...

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...

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...

Sacrifice According to Herman Melville, Henrik Ibsen, and Shirley Jackson

one of the most essential elements of sacrifice, especially in a religious context, is that the action is performed willingly, and...

Position Paper on Religious Symbolism in 'Rappaccini's Daughter'

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

Overview of the Shaolin Temple

his physical insights with the other monks when he returned after nine years, realizing how completely out of shape - both physica...

Modern Religion Evolution

have been formulated that propose how religious observance may have come about. One of the first theories proposed pertaining to ...

Religious Themes in the Butterfly Shaped Poem 'Easter Wings' by George Herbert

do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...

Feminist Perspective on Religion

ostensibly, the use of the masculine pronoun is suppose to encompass both men and women, Johnson argues that to consistently use t...

Philosophers on Religious Ethics

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

Enlightenment Religious Reform, the Hapsburg Empire, and Joseph the Second

greatest minds of his time period (Geocities.com, 2002). Maria Theresa was considerably more conservative (Geocities.com, 2002). ...

Islam vs. U.S. Muslim Religion Approaches

continent of North America. While the Muslim religion has experienced much upheaval during the past few centuries, the basic trad...

Book of Matthew's Sermon on the Mark and Buddhism's 8 Fold Path

Livelihood, 6. Right Effort Mental Development, 7. Right Mindfulness, 8. Right Concentration" (Anonymous The Noble Eightfold Path ...

What It Is Like to Grow Up as a Mormon

up at 5:00 in the morning and stop working at 9:00 p. m" (Gardner, 2002; gardner-con1.html). He illustrates that this is where he ...

Synoptic Gospels and Soteriology

Aquinas goes on to explain Christs sacrifice through suffering in that it came out of Christs love and obedience for mankind. This...

The Separation of Church and State

todays political system, consider the following "specific Machiavellian dictates"5 that are utilized in contemporary politics: * ...

Contemporary China and Catholicism

its work in China but on an interdenominational level (Yang, 1998). The "official" Catholics in China began to ordain their own b...

Contemporary Social Applications of the Human Rights' and Justice Theories of John Rawls

man with fine moral sense when dealing with other human beings and is considered to be an admirable man not only because of his wr...

Comparison of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

God had created an idyllic paradise for man, and it was only when a winged Satan invaded the peaceful calm and inflicted his exist...

Black Spiritual's Significance

time on their own to form cultural groups (1988). Piersen contends that New Englands black population was the most assimilated out...

The Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

"tumbles" his family into a "financial ruin from which they do not recover for two generations" (Bottum 64). Clarence finds that a...

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

theater is a reflection of the way people think and behave. It is also a precursor to where the society is going because it invol...

Relationship Between Music and Religious Practices Like Buddhism

This then introduces the debate regarding predestination and free will: if...

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...

Cloning of Human Beings Should Not Be Allowed for Religious, Scientific, and Moral Reasons

womb, is upon the world. These are issues of science fiction, but as time goes on they become science fact, a situation that has t...