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Magdelena and Balthasar by Steven Ozmet and Religious Controversies

Redeemer" (Ozment 14). As a result, Magdalena and Balthasar not only put their faith in good health in the various medical remedi...

Analysis of the Increases in Fundamentalist and Conservative Religious Groups

first founded by Radcliff-Brown and Evans-Pritchard. While initially utilized to aid our understanding of Polynesian and African ...

1990 Case of the US Supreme Court v. Employment Div., Ore. Department of Human Resources v. Smith, 494 US 872

for ingesting peyote, a hallucinogenic drug. This was not recreational drug use, however, but rather, for sacramental reasons as p...

Student's Religious Studies' Intellectual Journal

S/he reveals that the professor opted not to talk about Judaism because there were Jews in the class, and in the students opinion,...

'The Day of Doom' by Michael Wigglesworth

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of primary themes as well as its social and religious connotations....

The Jewish 'Father' Abraham

Michalowski explains, "Each person also had an additional, personal god" (Szulc, 2001, p. 90). A close interaction with this pers...

American Religion and The Great Awakening of the Eighteenth Century

which occurred in the 1730s and 1740s. It was during those few decades in which we emerged as a religiously based and religiously ...

A REview of Black Boy by Richard Wright

A 5 page overview of the religious and supersticious perspectives that interlace this book. 2 sources....

People and Evangelizing

In ten pages evangelizing is defined and a consideration of how certain religious groups evangelize is presented....

Church and State in the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court Case of Lee v. Weisman 505

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the First Amendment rights are being violated by a school function's religious ...

Evolution of the New World Order and Voltaire's Candide

This paper compares contemporary global developments and their impact upon individualism with the outcomes featured in Candide by ...

Quest Novels Voltaire's Candide and Epic of Gilgamesh

we will discuss two stories involving journeys -- the ancient Babylonian story of Gilgamesh, and Voltaires Candide. Written abou...

Greed in Henrik Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler,' Voltaire's 'Candide' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'

male dominance. Heddas immoral, destructive character is a direct product of the oppressiveness of a patriarchal society. As a m...

Comparative Analysis of Voltaire's Candide, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In five pages this paper examines how society changed from individual acceptance to individual oppression in a comparative analysi...

Voltaire's Candide and Literature of the Enlightenment

it from a cavalry captain," etc. (Voltaire, 1995, p. 9). This "genealogy," also subtly parodies the numerous "beget" clauses of t...

Comparing Charles Dickens' Hard Times and Voltaire's Candide

was, historically speaking, the calm before the storm, and Voltaire seemed to sense what was coming. He was often entertaining ro...

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...

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...

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 ...

Reason and Religious Belief An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Michael L. Peterson

corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...

Black American Perspectives on Death and Dying from a Religious View

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

Religious Rights In The Workplace

heretofore been clean-shaven for the previous fourteen years of employment. His abrupt demand to be allowed to serve food with fa...

Iraq, North Korea, and American Ill Will

the United States (Culture of North Korea, 2010). The capital of Pyongyang, which had been severely bombed by the United States d...

Discrimination of Religion

Christians, Muslims, and Jews are the most discriminated religious groups in the world. This essay provides data about religious d...

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...

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: 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...

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...