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Topics of Sociology and Theory

for a time. It appears that Marxs ideas come from life experience and his own prejudices as well as sociological observations in t...

Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud

realm of human reality than does the commandment to love a neighbor as yourself. Freud is adamant that property and aggression ha...

Narrative Speech Under Critical Analysis

in the continuing fight for womens rights. With the very first line, Truth exposes her defiance toward the systems rules, which, ...

Viktor Frankl, William James, Carl Jung, and Sigmund Freud on Psychology and Religion

compelled to believe in them and that they cannot be proved or refuted. On the other hand, no one can be forced to disbelieve reli...

Examining Rituals and Beliefs of Islam

provides a non-ethnocentric view of Islam. A number of Western writers, however, have attempted to approach Islam in an honest an...

Religion, Feminism, and the Goddess

of Wicca, a matriarchal based religion. When one studies the ancient belief systems in which the goddesses were worshiped it is no...

Positive World Change Through Hinduism

her own path but is not required to acknowledge an intermediary as a prophet (PG). In a revealed religion, if anyone denies the au...

September 11, 2001 and Terrorism

for Bin Laden and followers of him are everywhere. Or consider this report from the Pakistani newspaper The Nation: "September 11 ...

Is Scientology a Religion or a Cult?

by Lafayette Ron Hubbard and is not only incompatible with most of the worlds other religions, particularly Christianity, but open...

Art and the Pottery of Pueblo Native Americans

clayware. While the fundamental basis of Pueblo pottery maintains much the same common denominator, there are enough pueblos that...

Religion and Sex Views of Walt Whitman

ones own inner feelings. Whitman had been raised by Quaker parents (Hood). His orientation to religion was centered around the 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...

Comparing the Philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx

in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...

The Epic 'Beowulf' and Anglo Saxon Culture

the tale. In fact, it seems that one of the general ways in which each character is depicted is a quick rundown of their lineage. ...

Moody's Portrait of Racism

by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...

The Twenty-First Century and the First Century Compared

the Apostles in the Bible helps us realize that nearly a generation passed before the events of Jesus life were recorded into the ...

Public Schools, Religion, Drug Testing, and Children with Disabilities

In other words, the first amendment allows for prayer in school so long as educators and administrators do not lead the...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Cultural Products, and Religion

hairy feet. As this suggests, they are humble beings, not heroes. Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who is uncle to Frodo Baggins, entrusts ...

An Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity Overview

or what is referred to as tauba in Islam, is able to save a man (Salvation and the Afterlife, 2002). Therefore, Islam invites man...

Social Attitudes and the 'Mirror' of Religion

its way into common acceptance among the general public. While the current attitude toward this practice might still view it with...

Metaphysical Perspectives of Georges Bataille

teachings concerning the Void, which is expressed in the Upandishads and the Gita (Continuity/Discontinuity). From this viewpoint,...

Women and the Effects of Male Bias

the Type-Writer Girl" (Keep, 1997, p. 401). Interestingly enough, Kipling further questioned one of these "girls," only to learn t...

Rushdie/Thematic similarities/Ayesha and Gibreel

portray this relationship as one built upon and surviving from an incongruous association perpetuated by greed and power. The stu...

Anatomy of the Sacred

methods presented by Livingston, and where they may well fit, we provide a brief look at the approaches, beginning with literary c...

African American Religion and How It Originated

west coast of Africa, but even within this area religious traditions varied greatly" (African-American Religion in the Nineteenth ...

Subjective Truth and Soren Kierkegaard's Philosophy

by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...

Modern Religion Evolution

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

Post Second World War European Politics and Christianity

and social forces in Europe. The European Union is more actively supported it is found, by the more affluent and economically sou...

Politics and Hinduism

untouchables are clamoring for their own rights and recognition. But during 1999, the Indian Union government, which is Hindu-run ...

Medical Treatment, Parents, Religion and the Law

even her mother and father over whether she should get blood transfusions to treat her leukemia. Doctors say that without the trea...