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'A Prayer for My Son' by William Butler Yeats

in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...

Religious Diversity, Biology, and Memes

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

Judaism, Christianity, Religious Misinterpretation, and Environmental Problems

into the premier representation of Christianity, Jesus was to occupy a dual role within the religious world. He did not eschew hi...

Religious Beliefs of Indigenous Africans

having the "same" culture.4 The slave-trading colonial powers saw this vast territory as a single place, a single country occupied...

Religious and Individual Tensions in Othello by William Shakespeare and Antigone by Sophocles

classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...

Christian Church and Capital Punishment

the topic, some history is in order. How has the death penalty been treated in Christian religions, particularly among the Protest...

Composition of a Higher Renaissance Religious Mass

the opening, your next task is to turn to a declamatory delivery of the words "ut animalia viderent Dominium natum" (that the anim...

Comparing Jesus Christ to Paul the Apostle

churches, though many were convened in his name. Most of the accounts of Jesus in the Bible talk about large crowds of people that...

Outmoded Concept of Registered Marriage

Kong, as Leung (2003) points out, registered marriage was welcomed by women as an integral part of their acquiring equal rights....

Religious Rituals of Judaism and Christianity

offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...

The Balkans A Short History by Mark Mazower

Indeed, the organization of nationalism was spurred on due to the role played by patriotic clergies. Mazower (2002) indicates ho...

Western Civilization and Hebrew Cultural and Religious Contributions

as deeply related to their existence. AS Spielvogel indicates, "According to the Jewish conception, there is but one God....God...

Saint Augustine and the Conversion Experience

the human soul, the other for evil and matter, including the body(Gilson 3-66). However, when he became dissatisfied with the mat...

Origin and Translations of The Qur'an

mission is to follow Gods will to the letter (Esposito, 1978). The law is therefore followed precisely. The Holy Quran expresses a...

England, Education and Alfred the Great

skills were more highly valued. In addition, literacy was regarded as being equated with political and economic power: it was ther...

The Transformation of China in the 20th Century

and 3. Chinas policy towards the Soviet Union and its leaders as opposed to those it formulated in regard to the U.S. and its lea...

Political, Religious, and Social Sculpture

after it was moved to the Piazza della Signoria. The reason this particular point is so greatly argued is because of the glaring ...

Tutorial on Religious Tolerance and the Film The Passion of the Christ

hype people would not have continued lining up to see the movie. This is not a fun film, it graphically and brutally shows the las...

Religious Poetry of the Victorian Age

those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...

Guatemala's Mayan People

business conducted in Spanish and schools are based on Spanish as well as bilingual programs that are thought to be transitional...

Juvenile Delinquency and Religiosity

rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...

Religious Satire in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Voltaire's Candide

a "scathing response" to those who followed ignorantly (Family Education Network). In this simple critique we can see that relig...

Comparing Massccio's 'Holy Trinity' with 'The Annunciation' by Campin

of these influences, then, artists began to experiment with the old forms more. The rigidity of the art forms that they had been f...

Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Religious Literary Devices

in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...

Separation Between Church and State

this section, well try to answer if a liberal democracy requires a strict separation of church and state. In theory, at least, a d...

Social Change Through Theater and West Side Story

Story from Historical, Social, Cultural, Political and Religious Perspectives Surprisingly, the original idea for West Side Stor...

Religious Attitudes Represented in Hollywood Films

Scott movie Blade Runner, the earth has become virtually uninhabitable by any sort of decent human being. Depicting Los Angeles i...

3 Religious Issues

women being "accepted in the diaconate which is a part of Holy Orders" (Womens Ordination Conference, n.d.; also see The Campaign ...

Indian Politics and the Significance of Religion

With this, one may be critical of modern life (1008). Further, some thinkers look at Durkheims "social cement " and equate it wit...

Religious Influences on Emily Dickinson

of God resides in all people, thus resulting in fundamental human goodness (Wohlpart, 2004). However, it is important to note tha...