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Religion and Anthropomorphism

out of favor as a more philosophical approach took over. In more recent years, however, the fundamentalist and evangelical movemen...

Reasons Why Politics and Religion Should be Separate

In ten pages this paper argues in support of church and state separation in the U.S. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

Contemporary Korean and the Influences of Religions Confucianism, Shamanism, and Buddhism

the fact that Christianity has in recent times spread rapidly to claim a large following (1991). The numbers of people wh...

Religion and Emily Dickinson

who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...

Reason and Religious Belief An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Michael L. Peterson

corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...

European Nation States and the Effects of Politics and Religion

In five pages this paper discuses how rising nation states of Europe can be attributed to various political and religious developm...

Ideology and Religion of Islam

In twenty one pages this paper discusses ideology and religious practices of Islam in a consideration of cultural misconceptions b...

Comparing Religions in Fundamental and Historical Ways

further, a historical religion while Hinduism cannot be traced to one particular person or era (1998). Further, while Islam is dep...

Liberalism, Democracy And Religion

economic freedom (Tinder 2000). However, this rebirth also led to a suffocating individualism that ultimately overshadowed the ve...

Spirituality and Religion/Hospital Setting

the dietary restrictions of Jewish and Moslem patients should be honored and other tenets of these faiths should influence nursing...

Argument: Blaise Pascal’s Statement about Religion and Evil is Wrong

..., 2008). Blair sharply differentiated religious faith and extremism, noting that in the past decade, we have seen numerous "ac...

Mohammed Introduced New Religion

Mohammed introduced Islam in about 632. It was a time when tribes ruled their own group. There were continual battles between trib...

Pagan Religions and Christianity

Did Christianity borrow ideas and practices from pagan mystery cults. This is an allegation that has been popping up since the 19t...

Chaucer's View of Religion, The Canterbury Tales

This essay pertains to the clergy members who are part of Chaucer's band of travelers in "The Canterbury Tales." The writer argues...

Three Religions on Healing

This research paper offers an overview of Islamic, Buddhist, and Taoist views on health and healing. Six pages in length, six sou...

Religion and John Updike

This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...

Discrimination of Religion

Christians, Muslims, and Jews are the most discriminated religious groups in the world. This essay provides data about religious d...

Egyptian Pyramids and Religion

This research paper presents an investigation of literature, which indicates the meaning and purpose that the pyramids served wit...

Medieval Norms, Politics, Religion Aspects

This paper refers to Penny Schine Gold's The Lady & the Virgin, Image, Attitude and Experience in Twelfth-Century France and Ken F...

Marx and Durkheim and Their Theories of Religion

oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless condition. It is the opium of the peo...

Happiness, Compassion and Religion

study showed that the emotions of "loving-kindness and compassion" could be encouraged and learned as sixteen "age-matched contro...

Issues In Religion And Social Inequality

who pray to her (Burdick, 2001). Most are women but they are from all races, not just Black (Burdick, 2001). Women look to Anastac...

Faith & Science/Human Need for Religion

note that he differentiates between "religion" and "spirituality." Hamer maintains that "spirituality is genetic, while religion i...

Tennessee Williams: Religion

of those in relation to us..." (The Religious Affiliation of Playwright Tennessee Williams). In looking at this particular...

What My Religion Means to Me

the Catholic Church is the one true church if the person really believes that it is (Beliefs, doctrines and practices, 2007). If t...

Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas on Religion and Philosophy

truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...

Religion: Symbols, Systems, Thought and Practice

strong independent Church (based on the assumption of the Corpus Christianum common to all three confessions) through which he des...

Argument against School Prayer and Religion in Public Schools

passing laws that say all students WILL pray in class that they run afoul of the Supreme Court. There are many solid reasons why ...

Religion in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

of cheating going on. There are people who lie to get what they want, people who have sex outside of their marriage, and ultimatel...

How Differing Religions Affect The Workplace

and located not only in individual sentiments, but also in many world institutions" (Swatos, 2001, p. 288). In short, defining di...