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Rastafarianism, Santeria, and Islam

islands as slaves (Crawford, 2001). It was created from necessity for the slaves to continue practicing their native religion with...

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...

Islam, Christianity, and Judaism

believe that the Bible reflects the primitive concepts of the age in which it was written (Ahavat Israel, 1995). Reform Judaism no...

Oppression of Islamic Women

p. 50). In addition we note very forward thinking when we understand that "Muhammad even decreed that sexual satisfaction was a wo...

William Wordsworth's Poetry and Religion

then of trust when most intense, hence, amid ills that vex and wrongs that crush our hearts -- if here the words of Holy Writ may ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Freedom of Expressioin and Freedom of Religion in the Case of Otto-Preminger-Institut v. Austria

"Trivial imagery and absurdities of the Christian creed are targeted in a caricatural mode and the relationship between religious ...

2 Articles on Education, Sex, and Religion Reviewed

proven to marginalize religion in America, seeking to "exclude it from the public square" (Jeynes, 2001, p. 31) and, thereby, reli...

Religion in Two Plays: “The Darker Face of the Earth” and “Oedipus Rex”

of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...

Religion and Issues of Privacy

lawsuit, the disclosure must be public, that is, disclosure to a limited number of people or to those who have a legitimate need t...

Religion and its Influence on the Law

Catholic canon law, after all, has a long history of development, a history stretching back some two thousand years in fact (Hartm...

Built in Conflicts in Religions

for our humanity". While religion can function to challenge and change prevalent social beliefs, it must also be remembered th...

Survey of Two Religions

we are born in the Holy Spirit (Callaway Assembly of, 2009). * Pentecostals believe that people must repent their sins, be baptize...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and Religion

In 5 pages this paper examines the Christianity assumptions with regard to the structure of the American family as depicted in thi...

Extraterrestrials and Religion

In six pages this research paper discusses the social and religious impacts of extraterrestrials' discovery. Five sources are cit...

Religion in Early America

In five pages the original 13 American colonies are examined in terms of their diverse religious practices with the effects on wom...

Confucius and Chinese Religion

This paper consists of three pages and discusses Chinese religious concepts according to Confucius with his Dao understanding cons...

U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Involving Freedom of Religion

In eight pages this paper examines the 1st Amendment's free exercise clause as it has been interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court i...

Discussing Indian Religion

In a paper consisting of two and a half pages a situation in which the writer overhears a conversation between a Saiva tantric pra...

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...

Contemporary Religion and Plato

In six pages this paper compares contemporary religious views with Plato's philosophical concepts with God's existence, morality, ...

Religion, the Law, and Spanking

In five pages this paper discusses spanking from religious and legal perspectives. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Modern Philosoher Alasdair MacIntyre's Views on Religion, Community, Ethics and Morality

In a paper consisting of twleve pages two of MacIntyre's texts are examined in terms of the issues considered including Marxism al...

Global Business and Religion

the predominant religion of the land. Confusion of Culture and Religion Repression of women is...

Debate Over Blended Religion

In a research paper consisting of seven pages the religious worship debate is examined in terms of arguments and examples of conte...