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Religion and James Joyce

joyce.html). His mother, Mary Jane Murray, was "ten years younger than Stanislaus, was an accomplished pianist whose life was domi...

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...

Passion, Influences, and Martyrdom of Perpetua

equal before God, including women. Indeed, the road to female freedom and self-expression has been paved with patriarchal intoler...

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...

Gays and Stereotyping

lose weight for genetic reasons and that of course they would be thin if it were possible. Similarly, homosexuals claim that their...

Dharma and Hinduism

Hindus in that they also believe that dharma is a natural universal law which is in and pervades everything. To live in harmony wi...

The Separation of Church and State

todays political system, consider the following "specific Machiavellian dictates"5 that are utilized in contemporary politics: * ...

Contemporary China and Catholicism

its work in China but on an interdenominational level (Yang, 1998). The "official" Catholics in China began to ordain their own b...

Contemporary Social Applications of the Human Rights' and Justice Theories of John Rawls

man with fine moral sense when dealing with other human beings and is considered to be an admirable man not only because of his wr...

Comparison of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

God had created an idyllic paradise for man, and it was only when a winged Satan invaded the peaceful calm and inflicted his exist...

Black Spiritual's Significance

time on their own to form cultural groups (1988). Piersen contends that New Englands black population was the most assimilated out...

The Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

"tumbles" his family into a "financial ruin from which they do not recover for two generations" (Bottum 64). Clarence finds that a...

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

theater is a reflection of the way people think and behave. It is also a precursor to where the society is going because it invol...

Sexuality and Women in Hebrew and Greek Cultures

This paper discusses women's sexuality in these cultures in a comparative analysis of Robert Francoeur's The Religious Suppression...

Religious and Sociocultural Settings of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Crucible by Arthur Miller

neglected to train her in this mode of behaviour; it is evident that she has been treated primarily as a servant rather than as a ...

Allegories in The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

to friends to see what their feelings were about what he had written. He explains that some told him it was wonderful while other...

St. Augustine and His Impact

2001). In many ways St. Augustines life would serve as a bridge between pagan Rome and the Christian middle ages (ODonnell, 2001)...

Spiritual Development in Historia Calamitatum by Abelard

Spiritual development in European religious orders during the 12th century are discussed in an overview of Historia Calamitatum by...

Books on Catholic Revivalism Contrasted

In five pages this research paper compares and contrasts Madonna of 115th Street by Robert Orsi and Catholic Revivalism by Jay P. ...

Bernard Malamud's Contemporary Fable The Magic Barrel

In a combination essay and research paper consisting of five pages the writer considers how the relationship tensions between the ...

Religion and Education According to Max Weber and Karl Marx

dubbed the people who support it as leftist radicals who preach new ageism. Indeed, new ageism is part of the dominant culture and...

Religion and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

plague that threatens to annihilate most of its citizens. This plague is interpreted as an act of the gods, who are voicing their...

Muslims and the Example Set by the Life of Mohammed

to note that Mohammed was born into a poor family and was not unlike other great men who came from poverty. While that is the case...

Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska

In a paper consisting of five pages this autobiographical text is considered in terms of a female Polish immigrant coming to Ameri...

The Assistant by Bernard Malamud

In six pages the social issues Malamud incorporated into his text are examined in terms of the ways in which it expresses how reli...

Paintings Crucifixion and The Last Judgment by Jan van Eyck

In eight pages these fifteenth century paintings by Jan van Eyck are analyzed in terms of their iconographic, historical, and reli...

The Christian Mind How Should A Christian Think by Harry Blamire

In five pages this paper discusses this text in terms of religious interpretation and the impact as well as implications of global...

Clark's Philosophers Who Believe

In five pages this paper examines philosophy and the nature of religious faith as considered in Clark's 1997 text Philosophers Who...

Aristotle on Nonrelative Virtues

In five pages virtues and their relativity are debated by Aristotelian philosophy and an argument by Martha Nussbaum featured in ...