Essays about Culture Page 376

The American people have long claimed to be free thinkers. A freethinker is someone who forms opinions and makes decisions based on independent reasoning, without being influenced by any authority or group, particularly those who oppose political leaders and religious dogma. Freethinking and secularism have always played an important role in American politics and culture….

A good deal of the Bible specially the Old Testament can seem unconventional to most readers of today’s world. On the other hand, as people began to comprehend how the ancient people viewed the world, the Old Testament becomes more clearly a book that stands within its ancient context, while also speaking against it. In…

“Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religions for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology, it covers both the natural and spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.” (Albert…

                Religious maturity is practically and theoretically attractive to many persons such as personality and developmental psychologists, theologians, educators, and counselors.  Mature religions exhibit the following components: strong religious commitment and motivation- religion is some vibrant master-motive which guides life; complexity and differentiation of thinking in regard to spiritual-existential issues; heuristic feature – humility plus…

Dr. David J. Hesselgrave is retired as professor of mission and manager of the School of World Mission at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is a past president of the Evangelical Missiological Society and is writer of Theology and Mission and Dynamic Religious Movements. ( Backcover ) From the University of Minnesota. he earned his…

Samuel Heilman made it clear that materialistic gain has led to the fall of Jewish culture. Have Jews turned their religious lives solely to conform to the Catholic American society? Heilman gives the argument that since Jews have moved up the socio-economic ladder, they actually lost focus on what it means to be a Jew….

Despite 400 years of what amounted to genocide at the hands of Europeans, indigenous peoples of North America – known variously as Native Americans, First Peoples, Amerinds, or their own preferred appellation, “Indians” (a name bestowed by Columbus who believed he had actually reached India in 1492) stubbornly remain. Beyond the borders of the reservations…

Peace and ordeR is an occurrence of harmony characterized by the lack of violence, conflict behaviors and the freedom from fear of violence. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility and retribution, peace also suggest sincere attempts at reconciliation. Peace is usually the period in which there is now war or any other kind of…

1. Introduction: The problem or issue the author addresses is who should control the means of production – the private or the public. 2. Summary of the article/argument. von Hayek counters Galbraith’s The Dependence Effect by pointing out that the crux of the argument relies on a flaw that ultimately leads a faulty conclusion. While…

Other competitors have high prices for normal ND plain pizza but the pizza with topping had lower price than Domino’s. Other restaurants have also high and medium quality pizza whereas Domino’s has low and normal quality pizza. It can be concluded from the article that domino’s services are much better than any other pizza chain…