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Qur'an's Importance

gained from what lies between the words. Words have meaning and translations can sometimes take on a biased effect. Sometimes it i...

Film as Religion by John Lyden

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

US Supreme Court Case of Widmar et al v. Vincent et al

that the students had a right to free speech and contended that because the University had an established policy of accommodating ...

American Society Problems

of Navajo and Zuni reservations and this is widely seen and known by most. And, it seems that no matter how educated they become, ...

World History Effects of Three Forms of Nationalism

represents often empowers citizens into believing their nations and peoples are the best and brightest in the world. It is believ...

Masturbation

form of sexual pleasure unlikely to result in a population increase (e.g. masturbation, homosexuality, oral/anal sex) has routinel...

Faith and Reason in the Thinking of Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri

be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...

Biography of St. Augustine

but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

due to biblical passages describing how divine vengeance was "meted out to guilty and innocent alike" in "the Great Flood, the des...

The Career and Writings of Evangelist Carl F.H. Henry

pursuits out of fear of being contaminated by criticism of the Bible or by the increasing tendency of universities to turn away fr...

Widmar v. Vincent and Free Speech

an issue that directly impacted on Cornerstone, but could equally impact on any religious group wanting to use any public grounds,...

Legal Brief of Wisconsin v. Yoder Addressing Amish Religious Freedom

In four pages this paper examines the education law of the state of Wisconsin and religious freedom as they are addressed in the W...

Increasingly Secular World and Beliefs

these religious belief systems is very purposeful. Freud demonstrates this in his definition of the German term Weltanschauung, w...

Strong Congregations by Kennon Callahan

qualities that he identifies as intrinsic to small, strong congregations as the foundation for his chapters, building upon these t...

US Future and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

hold much power today. One author notes that the novel of Atwoods specifically seems to target "fundamentalist Protestants in Amer...

Religion, Ethics, and Taxes

tax fraud served to support the belief that religious leaders and people of faith are not exempt from immoral actions regarding mo...

An Iraq Government Structure

5 percent are identified as Assyrian, Turkoman and other (CIA, 2005). These demographics must be considered when developing a new ...

Research Introduction

This essay presents an overview of introductory research with a specific focus on how it is used in regards to investigating relig...

Religions of Mesoamerica by David Carrasco

sun traveled at night" (Carrasco 35). The game was viewed as a representation of a cosmic struggle in which the players competed t...

Jainism, Buddhism, and Hinduism

the quest for atman , the knowledge of the self" emerged (Hinduism History, 2005). This took place between 400 B.C. and 600 A.D. (...

An Examination of Social Stratification

system. In fact, at the lowest level, one of every six people are born into the untouchables stratum (Hempel, 2005). Such a closed...

Grace and Its Mystery in 'Revelation,' 'Good Country People,' 'Greenleaf' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

is true of the character Joy/Hulga in "Good Country People." Joy/Hulga has a heart condition, which prevents her from living the...

Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' and Religion

much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...

Medieval Drama and Its Messages

fall of the Roman Empire, organization on some central theme appears to be the only similarity between Roman guilds and those that...

Schools in Malta and Prayer

to religion can be understood as a foundation of the current education system. The main legislation is the Education Act 1988, u...

The Indian-Pakistani Conflict

In the 1930s came the notion of a newly named region, and the name Pakistan came from an idea one man, Chaudhuri Rahmat Ali, posse...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Hypocrisy and Religion

particular excerpt almost seems to serve as an introduction to how religion is seen in the society of Huck Finn. The reader sees t...

Views on the Social Practice of Gay Marriage

Bush Oppose Gay Marriage 14). The statement went on to pronounce heterosexual marriage as "holy, while homosexual acts go against...

Hebrew and Greek Legacy

BC) of the Jews that they set about truly "purifying their religion" (Hooker, 1996). It was during this period that they worked to...

Kosovo Crisis: Military Intervention

world is robbing them of their right to self-determination" (Anonymous, 1999, p. 20). Historically the Serbs have always held Kos...