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Religious Beliefs And Dress Code Policies In The Workplace

skirt to an emergency call will be significantly compromised when - upon running into a blazing house - she is unable to securely ...

Aspects of Hinduism

conclusions based on more recent findings in archaeology, cultural analysis, astronomical references, and literary analysis" (Robi...

Comparing Christianity and Buddhism

of the Divine somewhat differently than do Christians, as while they believe in a variety of "celestial realms," which includes be...

The Realist Perspective in Dickens' Hard Times

view of reality that emphasizes a more Biblical approach to life. Through the "good" characters of the novel, principally Sissy, S...

Animism Religion

that a spiritual reality exists. "The concepts that humans possess souls and that souls have life apart from human bodies befor...

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...

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...

God's Existence Arguments

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

West and Influence of Islam

culture of Islam and the occidental world. The book details the impacts Islam has had from a religious perspective in particular....

Religious Beliefs of Indigenous Africans

having the "same" culture.4 The slave-trading colonial powers saw this vast territory as a single place, a single country occupied...

The Wealthy and American Criticism

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

Religious Beliefs of the 1st Century

and free them from years of persecution (Jesus Institute, 2005). Since Jesus came in peace, many did not accept Him as the true Me...

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...

The Fundamentalist Middle East Society and Anti-Westernism

on greed for middle east resources, notably oil. They fear that the western culture, with modern conveniences and popular culture...

Religious Beliefs in Issues of Child Development

and the pursing of a relationship with Christ, it is also beneficial to integrate interviews with children at varied stages in dev...

Religious Beliefs and the Theories of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx

study the primitive, not because there was any one point in time at which religion could have been said to have begun, but because...

Sacred Texts and 'Sacredness'

and how they should, in turn, love one another. Such a characteristic is present in the sacred texts of the world ranging from the...

Does the Resurrection Guarantee the Afterlife?

Jesus Christ, 2001 and See Also Badham, 1976). Innumerable disparate bodies of evidence and divergent theories exist, and a...

Thoughts and Philosophies of Benjamin Franklin

In five pages Franklin's thoughts and beliefs regarding such topics as politics, religion, and business are discussed within the c...

Belief in God in Hinduism and Buddhism

reverence that can only be achieved through understanding the esoteric aspects of the three worlds. "The experiential and devotio...

A Comparison of Occidental and Islamic Cultures in 'The Venture of Islam'

This paper of 6 pages compares western culture and Islamic religion in terms of similarities and differences, providing definition...

Native Americans and Religious Evolution Over a Century

The full circle evolution of Native Americans in terms of religion during the past century is examined in this paper consisting of...

Unbeliever's Understanding of Divine Reality

In six pages divine reality is examined in order to provide the unbeliever with understanding with the contention that following o...

Mortimer Jerome Adler's How to Think About God

anything other than concepts to emanate from an approved religion is ridiculous. In fact, taking the concept of God and analyzing ...

Media and Religion

print to radio and television broadcast to influence the receptors impressions, attitudes, and opinions of religion and religious ...

Religious Beliefs and War

The ways in which religious dogma can be used to justify war are examined in a research paper consisting of nine pages. Sixteen s...

Buddhism, Judaism, and the Concept of an Afterlife

In five pages the beliefs of an afterlife as espoused by Buddhist and Jewish religions are discussed. There are ten bibliographic...

1940 Case of Minersville School District v. Gobitis

issues are difficult because the children are forced to comply with school policy. However, issues often surface if freedoms are t...

Contrasting and Comparing the U.S., Japan, and Great Britain

This paper contrasts and compares these three nations in eight pages and considers how their differences may be obvious but their ...

God as a Woman in The Great Mother by Erich Neumann

In six pages this research paper considers the religions in which goddesses were worshipped within the context of Neumann's work w...