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Essays 1981 - 2010

Misunderstood Santeria Religion

In seven pages this paper discusses Santeria in a consideration of its origins, connection to Catholicism, and its media depiction...

Mystical Religion Santeria

owners, today one will find that Santeria is sprinkled with a mixture of both Spanish and African terms. That is based on this hi...

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...

Myths and Rituals in the Jewish Religion

This paper consists of five pages and considers rituals and myths as they pertain to Judaism. Nine sources are cited in the bibli...

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...

Child Welfare, Religion, Freedom, Social Responsibility, and Parental Rights

MD, CM contended that the parents ultimate refusal/postponement of the recommended procedures resulted in the "increased patient 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...

Life, Salvation, and Religion

It can be said that his treatises on this subject had great influence on the study of redemption in later years, or in the vernacu...

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...

Review of The Mystery Religions by Samuel Angus

maintain his claims. As one becomes lost in the unraveling of a very ancient tale, one becomes aware that the author is purposel...

Conflict Between Religion and Science

that it is only through science and the scientific method of inquiry that human beings can obtain reliable knowledge (Nord, 1999)....

Ancient Egypt Religion and Mythology

land to appear with their nutrient rich soils. By day Ra sailed through the air on a boat between the sky and the earth, resting a...

Religion, Creation Science, True Science, and S.J. Gould

not be empirically tested, and therefore could not be classed as true science, the creationists shifted their ground. Instead of m...

Religion in 'Beowulf' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

for his own wants as a man. Sir Gawains virtue is tested against the backdrop of religious implication when Bercilaks wife ...

Judeo Christian Religion and Blood Sacrifice

This sacrifice, however, did not require the sinner to relinquish his life, for God realized that would be too great a cost, so He...

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...

Education and a Serious Religion Curriculum

between the teacher and the students. In the book, Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum, by Warren Nord and Charles Ha...

Religion and Why It Should be Studied

of people may have a completely different set of beliefs from another tribe. We do not even need to know what their beliefs were i...

Transgendered, Transsexual, and Homosexual Individuals and Religion

sex with a male, after the manner of sex with a woman, they have both committed an abomination, they shall surely be killed" (Quot...

Similarities and Differences That Exist Among Global Religions

that their God will ultimately rule the world, that the Jews have established the doctrines of faith and hope as the "two most pro...

Nazim Hikmet/Human Landscapes from My Country

portrait of Turkish society at that time. Drawing on Hikmets ability as a screenwriter, as well as a poet, his free verse form e...

Women in Candide

social spectrum. The old womans story also charts the fall and misfortunes of an individual who was once a beautiful young woman, ...

Sovereignty: What It Means In Today's Global Society

in world politics illustrates how such groups form out of a need to "right" perceived wrongs. Since they believe their duty is to...

Living Below The Poverty Line In America And Ethiopia

Bureau, 2005). The 2000 census reflects an unemployed rate of 6.1% out of the overall civilian workforce of 656,539 people. Occu...

The Bluest Eye & The Color Purple

that what is white is beautiful, lovable and normal, while black facial features, skin color and everything else associated with b...

Gulliver/His Cultural Tools

voyage, he saves the Lilliputian emperors palace from certain destruction by urinating on it in order to put out a fire that th...

Enron & WorldCom: Who Blew The Whistle?

agreement -- why should the whistle blowers? This is precisely how the handful of individuals felt when they learned their corpor...

Eminem's Music

thing, Eminem has an "intuitive sense of how to flow smoothly from the measured cadence of ordinary speech to the discursive inten...

Submissive Characters In Children's Literature: Influence Upon Self-Perception In Female Children

set down for them without making any fuss. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, authors of Writing and Reading Across the Curri...

Mary Pipher/Another Country

age that are frequently expressed within Western society evolve, at least partially, from the changes in social status that occur ...