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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...

Religion and Its Second Generation Adoption

research has shown that children most often align themselves politically and religiously with what their parents practiced (Wilson...

Cherokee Indians and Religion

the Cherokee from their homelands, the establishment of a government reservation for the people, and the ultimate separation of th...

Peter Terson's 'Zigger Zagger' and Patrick McCabe's 'The Butcher Boy'

though not necessarily horribly so. In essence, the boy is neglected and it is not surprising "why parentless Harry was inclined t...

Concept of Divinity of God

that there is "within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted i...

Aspects of the Multiple Heritage Seen in Africa

born in Kenya, educated in Britain and currently teaching at Binghamton University, New York knows of what he studies (Binghamton,...

Religion in the United States

impartial form of government: the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendme...

Religion Curriculum in Schools

Perhaps the greatest similarities lie between the Christianity and Islam faiths; indeed, there are considerable concurrent issues ...

Female Involvement in Various Organized Religions

of the least considered female-dominated religions is Wicca, a practice that imparts spirituality, benevolence and earthly powers ...

Confucianism Taoism and the Superior Man

Confucianism and Taoism are two of the Easts largest...

In Favor of the Ground Zero Mosque

This research paper offers an over-all summary of the debate over whether or not New York City should allow construction of an Isl...

The Subversion of Religion, Media, and the Democratic Process by Terrorists

East. These groups attempt to affect change by use of fear, intimidation, and terror with the organizational trappings of a religi...

Comparing the Empire of Ancient Rome with Ancient Greece

to Egypt would also pay homage to some Egyptian Gods such as Isis and Horus. In Britain and Gaul there is evidence of the Romans m...

The Impact of Religion on Women in Post-Colonial Literature

minority writers are rife with issues of postcolonial interest. It is commonly held that the literature of colonial societies refl...

Judaism and Ancient Egyptian Religion

the soul: the Egyptians thought that the there were several "psychical elements" comprising existence, including the ka (Dyson). T...

Puritanism after Emigration

to escape persecution and established colonies in North America. This paper considers a different aspect of the story: what happen...

Deep Ecology vs Religion

Our world hardly even resembles the world as it existed just a few generations ago. Ever expanding human populations...

The Influence of Missionaries in West Africa on Christianity

the Middle East and North Africa that religion has its foundations, it was only in the fifteenth century that the centre of Christ...

Comparing and Contrasting Family and Religion in Romania and the US

(Anonymous, 2011). Today marriages remain the mainstays of families, and while many of the older generations were married through ...

An Analysis of Purity and Danger

ideas. Some examples provided by the author respect the Jewish dietary traditions as well as ideas about sexuality and cleanliness...

The Transition of Shinto to the Modern World

describing kami in too theological a fashion, because oftentimes these spirits are not understood to be literal spirits, but rathe...

Early Christians

at that time. It was always in turmoil with one battle or one war or another being waged. The Greco-Roman world consists of the al...

Founders of Christianity and Islam

Son. Joseph was a carpenter in a small village. Nazareth was a farming village but it was also a hub for the market which made i...

Religious Affiliation and Prayer

the participants were active churchgoers and had voted in the 2004 presidential election (Hanek, Olson, & McAdams, 2011). The samp...

Religion and Culture/Michel Foucault

This essay offers an overview of Religion and Culture by Michel Foucault, edited by Jeremy Carette. While the writer cites from Ca...

Theology of Sacraments

that led to holiness and applied that idea as sacramentum, which was to encompass the many different ways of gaining grace. They s...

Cultural Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Troubles

Ulster to belong to the United Kingdom can be broadly aligned with their religious associations (Tonge, 2001). In Northern Irela...

Providing Christian Witness is a Multi-Religion Environment

same region (Bilton et al, 2008). In many instances different ethnicities tend to have a traditional association with specific rel...

19th Century American Reforms

virtues, and some held that the best way to achieve this was to withdraw from traditional society and establish small communities ...