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World Religions, 2004.
This paper surveys ancient and modern world religions.
5,520 words (approx. 22.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 135.95
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This paper examines the archaeological, anthropological and historical context of the emergence of religion. The author points out commonalities in these religions, ancient and most modern. The paper looks at the differs regarding the issues they address and the human needs they satisfy.
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"The purpose of this research is to examine religions of the world from the ancient period to the present day. The research will set forth the archaeological, anthropological and historical context out of which the origins of religion emerged and then discuss ..."
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World Religions, 2004.
An overview and summary of many of the main religions of the world, including Christianity, Judaism, and Eastern religions.
3,722 words (approx. 14.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 102.95
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This paper examines most of the world's religions and discusses them in the following contexts: founder and history; gods; views on creation; views on death and the afterlife; and major holidays, festivals, and rites.
The religions discussed are Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Baha'ism, Hinduism, and Wicca.
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"Like Christianity is to Judaism, Buddhism formed basically as an offshoot of Hinduism. The historical Buddha, known as Gautama Buddha, was a high caste Hindu named Siddhartha who underwent a period of fasting and meditation with monks. Afterwards, he rejected some of the main tenets of Hinduism and preached a Middle Path or Middle Way between worldliness and extreme asceticism. A group of followers helped to organize the Buddha?s teachings into a formal religion, much as the Christian apostles and later theologians codified Christianity. Therefore, Gautama Buddha was not so much the founder of the religion as its key prophet and figurehead."
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Fasting and Major World Religions, 2004.
Compares and contrasts the practice of fasting in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper compares and contrasts how three different major world religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam, use the practice of fasting as a form of demonstrating belief in God. The paper discusses the purpose of fasting in each of these religions and looks at the relationship of fasting to the worship of God in each religion.
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"Fasting is defined as the act of total or partial abstinence from food for a limited period of time, typically taken for moral or religious reasons. Religious belief systems and dicta concerning fasting range from Zoroastrianism which forbids it to Jainism which teaches that the believer's goal is a life of passionless detachment which would ideally culminate by death by voluntary starvation. In this essay, the relationship of fasting as a form of demonstrating belief in or obedience to God..."
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World Religions: A Glimpse at Islam, 2007.
A discussion and comparison of Islam and Christianity.
1,955 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 62.95
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This paper highlights the differences and similarities between Islam and Christianity. The paper also includes the summary of an interview the writer conducted with a representative of a Dallas-area Imam, Yusuf Kavkci or Kavakci, in which the writer discussed public attitudes towards the Dallas Central Mosque and some of the controversy surrounding Dr. Kavkci and the public perception of Islam in 2007. The writer found the interview somewhat disappointing, but learnt from his research that Christianity and Islam happen to take interesting departures from one another on a wide array of issues even as they are both Abrahamic faiths.
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Comparing/Contrasting Islam with Another Religion (in this case, Christianity)
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"A comparison and contrast of Islam and Christianity is always an interesting undertaking. For one thing, both are Abrahamic religions insofar as they both revere the biblical Abraham as a spiritual ancestor (Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, 2007). In theory, all three of the religions preach love and toleration. That being noted, there are certainly passages in Islam which are critical of Christianity and of Judaism - presumably because the early Islamicists wanted to distance themselves from "adulterated" Christianity and from "less-evolved" Judaism; for its part, Christianity has been, historically, more explicitly critical of the Jews (from whom it sought to distance itself) than of Muslims."
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Religion in the Modern World, 2007.
This paper explores various paths for being a religious individual in the modern world.
1,260 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper examines a number of texts and philosophies from different world religions. The work of anthropologist Mircea Eliad is used as a basis. The differing texts and philosophies are used as a means of expressing religious thought and actions as a modern individual. The author argues that outlooks from different faiths may motivate one to be religious. For example, a Christian may find Buddhist philosophy strengthens his own practice and belief. This sense of respect and reciprocity is what the modern world can learn from religion
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"If the relationship of the sacred and profane must remain an area of contention, perhaps the only ideal that can be embraced by both believers and non-believers is the ethic of toleration, as espoused by the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber. "One should beware altogether of understanding the conversation with God ... as something that occurs merely apart from or above the everyday...God's address to man penetrates the events in all our lives and all the events in the world around us, everything biographical and everything historical, and turns it into instruction, into demands for you and me." (Buber, 1971, p.182)"
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Religion in the Scientific World, 2005.
An examination of religion in the scientific world, and an analysis of reductionism.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, $ 80.95
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The paper examines religion in the scientific world and explores the implications of reductionism. The paper explains that ,according to Goodenough, the primary difference between reductionism and rational analysis is that rational analysis is indifferent to the metaphysical status of the object of which the details are a part, while reductionism features radical skepticism regarding the object of study. The paper concludes that, essentially, reductionism seeks to establish the ultimate meaning of the object being studied by examining its composition and the relationship between its component parts.
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"In describing what Goodenough and Kaplan mean by reductionism, it must be noted first of all that is reductionism is similar to rational analysis, which attempts to understand an aspect or quality of nature through a precise and exhaustive detailing of its particulars and the constituent elements. According to Goodenough (2000) the primary difference between reductionism and rational analysis is that rational analysis is indifferent to the metaphysical status of the object of which the details are a part, while reductionism features radical skepticism regarding the object of study. Essentially, reductionism seeks to establish the ultimate meaning of the object being studied by examining its composition and the relationship between its component parts."
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Religion in " Brave New World", 2003.
A review of the treatment of religion in Aldous Huxley's novel " Brave New World".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper examines how the state's material religion in the novel" Brave New World" is based on Henry Ford's mechanical assembly-line society rather than a spiritual God.
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"It is no accident that Bernard Marx in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is tormented by his awareness of his individuality. Huxley uses Bernard's last name to refer to Karl Marx who is famous infamous for his quote that Religion..."
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Global Religions, 2002.
Examining the affect of globalization on the world's main religions.
1,258 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper looks at how the process of globalization affects world religions. It asks whether religion is somehow exempted from this phenomenon affecting all aspects of the world and whether religion is so well protected or insulated that it is immune to the changes. The writer concludes that religion is not immune to change.
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"It was religion that first preached the idea of the oneness of humankind. More than 2600 years ago Zoroastrianism espoused the ideal of a single human family. And yet, as globalisation drives humankind towards some sort of interdependent world the voice and vision of religion has all but faded into oblivion. The religious vision of the unity of humankind has very little in common with the motives and goals of globalisation. For religion - and almost every major religion embody some notion of the oneness of the human family - the essence of universal unity is our common humanity derived in some instances from our faith in the one God. "
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Religion and Belief in the Modern World, 2005.
An analysis of religion and belief in the modern world, according to the views of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 2 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper focuses on the two passages - one from Nietzsche's "The Gay Science" and the other from Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling". The paper discusses their common focus of the issue of belief in the modern world. However, the paper also argues they have adopted distinctly different approaches to how people in the modern world should relate to the practice of religion and the belief in a transcendent deity.
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" Religion and Belief in the Modern World: The importance of this question is highlighted by Nietzsche in the opening sentence of the passage where he asks: "Who are we anyway?" "
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A Criticism of Religion, 2004.
An analysis of the negative aspects of the world religions.
6,084 words (approx. 24.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 143.95
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This paper looks at how religion has been the backbone of humanity since the beginning of the civilized world. It discusses how, although religions have achieved a great deal, some people feel so strongly that their religion is the correct one that they will kill for that belief. It looks at how religions create boundaries so that their ways and beliefs will be protected by drawing on the beliefs of Karl Marx and how he would have viewed the world religions today.
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"Christianity represented a form of alienated life because it existed in a culture where division of labor existed. Division of labor for Marx gives rise to alienation, and the only way to end it is to end divided labor. It is alienation that Marx focuses on. Christianity is the religion that guides man to show him what he aspires to be. So when human suffering is at its worst that is when man turns to religion. Man places all the good attributes he has and hopes to be and places them on God. Religion for Marx is Christianity in the Prussian State. It is religion that makes man learn to deal with the conditions around him (Plamenatz, pg. 227-248). Marx states ?religion has no content of its own and lives not from heaven but from earth? (Lash, pg.154). In a society with no classes there would be no need for religion because man creates religion."
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Taboos Concerning Menstruating, 2003.
The paper seeks to determine why women in world religion are viewed primarily in terms of their menstrual cycle and how it pollutes and contaminates societal order, and whether this is a legitimate approach to understanding women in world religion.
2,165 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 67.95
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The first section of this paper illustrates how ?sexuality? is a social construction and a link to ?power? which results in the notion of normative versus deviancy. The androcentric nature of this form of power is also identified. This paper also attempts to identify, through use of the Purity and Pollution paradigm, the relationship between a specific symbolic construction of the feminine and cultural practices that marginalize women. The third section focuses on the Zoroastrianism faith and whether or not it complies with the paradigm. The final section seeks to challenge the Purity and Pollution paradigm by pointing to some of its primary weaknesses, especially its inability to make audible the female voice by seeking women?s self-perception.
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"The existence and continuation of cross-cultural taboos concerning menstruating women has sparked an interest in the field of anthropology by scholars who have noticed such a phenomenon. These taboos result from a specific symbolic construction of the feminine with the potential to pollute, which result in cultural practices that publicly marginalize women. Anthropologists have noticed the cross-cultural occurrence of menstruation taboos and, consequently, sparked the formation of an analytical lens. Focusing on purity and pollution?the notion that menstrual blood is polluting and contaminating to societal order and women, consequently are the polluters?has become a universal analytical lens through which to view women in world religions. The following seeks to examine the reason for this phenomena and its legitimacy as a tool with which to examine women in world religions."
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Creating a New Religion, 2004.
An experimental creation of a new religion called Harmony, which combines different factors from current world religions.
1,222 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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Most of the world's religions have many common thoughts and underlying beliefs, including commonalities in beliefs about developing good character and the importance of love and compassion. This essay attempts to create a new religion (called the Harmony) that is inspired by the commonalities seen in many world religions. Rituals, commandments and beliefs are all be examined, and where applicable, outlined for this new religion.
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"Most of the world's religions have many common thoughts and underlying beliefs. While religions can differ in the type of god or gods that are worshiped, rituals, commandments, and structure, most religions share some of the same basic, core beliefs. Essentially, virtually all religions of the world espouse many of the same beliefs, but choose to express these beliefs in their own ways. Specifically, many of the world's main religions like Buddhism (technically a philosophy but often considered a religion), Christianity, and Hinduism all preach the same concepts of love and being a good person. Love and compassion are tenets shared between a large number of religions. Christianity urges followers to love their enemies, and notes that God is love. The Dali Lami, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism argues that humanity cannot survive without love and compassion (Shreve)."
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Gandhi and Religion, 2005.
This paper discusses the positive integration of world religions, through the dialogue of inter-religious conflict in Gandhi's philosophy.
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This paper examines how the path to combat inter-religious conflict has been the mission of Gandhi's objective mission in the world. This study explores the critical apparatus between modern scholars that often agree, but also disagree in how Gandhi actually viewed religious divisions within politics or without. The paper explains, however, that by understanding the ethical and moral basis for Gandhi's activity to bring religions into a unified world, one can understand why he sought to realize a harmonious world that could live without unnecessary violence and destruction to differing ideological doctrines in theology.
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"In this religious study, the inter-religious conflict that existed within Gandhi's time can be analyzed in realizing how religion can divide a society or culture. In this view, one can realize the various barriers that are created that are not really present in relation to how ethics and morals work within the philosophy of Gandhi's teachings. In essence, although there are certain problems of doctrine and belief systems between religions, the modern day view of Gandhi's influence in breaking down religious barriers dissolves inter-religious conflict. These are the positive ways and means in which Gandhi represents a tolerant and inter-religious unity, which can be practiced in today's modern world. The basis for inter-religious conflict has been critically evaluated from the standpoint of a separation of politics with religion."
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End of the World Scenarios, 2005.
This paper discusses end of the world scenarios, which appear in every religion and culture, including today's techno-culture.
1,520 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper explains that the roots of the belief in a glorious kingdom, which is part natural and part supernatural, are found in the hopes of the Jews for a temporal Messiah and in the Jewish apocalyptic. The author explains that, for thousands of years, legendary leaders such as King Solomon, the Egyptian pharaohs and Napoleon Bonaparte, have fought over Megiddo, called Armageddon in the New Testament, located in modern day Israel, and where the Bible says the end of the world will occur. The paper describes the grey goo scenario, first posed by Eric Drexler in his book on nanotechnology, "Engines of Creation", in which he describes how small nano-scale robots built to replicate themselves using any organic material, self-replicating nanobots, which eventually cover the world with grey sludge competing for the remainder of the planet's resources with microscopic earth munching robot swarms.
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"The Christian faith is one such religion that is based on the day of judgement. There are dozens of references in the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible that concern the end of the world. It is called by many phrases such as the "Day of the Lord," "the Day of the Son," "The Last Day," "The Day of the Son of Man," or the "Second Coming". For Christians this means that Christ will return to gather the just and annihilate the evil, and to found a glorious kingdom on earth filled with the highest spiritual and material blessings. All the saints will participate in this event and Christ is said to reign for one thousand years."
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Polygamy and Its Consequences in the Arab World, 2004.
A look at the practice of polygamy in the Arab world and the impact it has on the religion and culture.
1,750 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper looks at the practice of polygamy and examines why countries like Turkey and Tunisia outlawed it. It focuses its argument on the fact that Egypt should also outlaw polygamy and lists several disadvantages and criticism on this custom.
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"Most people would define marriage as a close relationship between one man and one woman, based on trust and understanding, and not as a relationship between four women and one man. Not many women can tolerate, or even imagine the possibility that their husband, the person whom they supposedly trust, is not only having an affair but has three other families an three other wives which she may or may not know about. This is polygamy and it is the root of many social injustices and problems. Some of these problems are the loss of self esteem that the wife feels, the neglect the children feel, children and the poverty which can spread among families as a single income is distributed on more than one family. How can this injustice be supported in the name of religion? This is the question that many non Muslims ask and a main reason for their criticism of Islam. A large number of Muslims ask the same question and conclude that the Quran does not give men the unconditioned free license to marry up to four women. Many other Muslims insist that polygamy is allowed and permitted by the Quran. Moreover, they describe people who ban polygamy as sinful for prohibiting and questioning what God has permitted. When Tunisia and Turkey outlawed polygamy many Muslims interpreted their actions as sins against Islam. Unlike what many people assume and what many sheikhs state, the Quran does not support polygamy, and a close reading of the Quranic verses on polygamy reveals that the practice is prohibited except in very strict circumstances. Egypt should ban polygamy because it causes many social and economic problems."
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