Essays on Religion Page 137

Pashupati area is regarded as one of the most important places of pilgrimages for the followeres of Hinduism. Thousands of devotees from within and outside the country come to pay homage to Pashupatinath every day. And on special occasions like Ekadasi, Sankranti, Mahashivratri, Teej Akshaya, Rakshabandhan, Grahana (eclipse), Poornima (Full moon day) people congregate here…

Laura de Mello e Souza embarked on her doctoral dissertation, which examined sorcery in colonial Brazil from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Before she started writing her dissertation, numerous works on historiography had already been published. However, none of them specifically focused on Brazil. De Mello e Souza recognized the wealth of information available…

Hanson state, a worldview can be described as “the frameworks or beliefs which a person view the world around around him”. (Caner & Hinds 2008, p A world view can also be a persons philosophy of life. It is like a filter or lens from which we see the world around us and what it…

The first instance of the Roman State taking action against Christians arose in the reign of the Emperor Claudius (41-54 A.D.). The historians Suetonius and Dio Cassius tell us that Claudius had to expel the Jews because they were continually arguing among themselves about a certain Chrestos. “Here we have first mention of the response…

The context for Matthew’s parables is that they come right after the section on mounting hostility to Jesus and his mission (in which Jesus establishes that every one of His followers and who does the will of God is his brother and sister) and right before more of Jesus’ miracles and teachings outside Galilee. In…

I. Introduction             Anxiety may also refer to fear. Anxiety is no respecter of persons but strikes the educated and the unlearned. It produces emotional stress and an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion. Anxiety quenches and grieves the Holy Spirit. Quenching the Holy Spirit is…

My leadership and educational assumption presume from Mathew 20:28, which states that “I am here to serve and not to be served.” Accordingly, I believe that to be a good leader one must be a servant of the people. It is vital for a Christian leader to imitate Christ. Therefore, I believe that a leader…

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and How Its Policy Affects LGBTQ Members and Their Families December 11, 2018 | Shaley Fleming PRESS RELEASE On November 5, 2015 news of some changes to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Bishop’s Handbook Number 1 broke. Tweets rang out from notable members and…

The Biblical account of the life of Samson is found in the book of Judges Chapter 13. Though his mother was sterile and childless yet through divine intervention, an angel appeared to her mother announcing that she will “conceived and have son” Indeed Samson was born out of God’s will and purpose, that is, to…

Charlotte Bunch once said, “Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.” This quote shows that children grow up with their family members not liking a certain race or the way other people are raised and that leads to the children growing up…