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- 2471: The Effect Of The Russian Orthodox Religion On The Cult
- ... s world view and defined her place in the world. The church affected the thought patterns and motivations of a whole culture and changed the way Russians thought about themselves and the ways that they lived their lives. The church acted as a unifying factor for the Russian nation. Church holidays and fasts enriched and brought meaning to the cycle of seasons and sowing in the subsistence society. Russians possessed a ...
- 2472: The Buddha's Four Noble Truths: A Logical Basis For Philosophy
- ... question is “How does one set about reaching Nirvana?” As with the rest of his philosophy, the Buddha answered this question through careful empirical observations. In the early days of his life, Siddhartha lived a life of luxury in which all of the sensual pleasures were given to him. Finding this an unsatisfactory state of affairs, the Buddha attempted to find happiness in a life at the opposite extreme ...
- 2473: Different Religions
- ... morals. Morals are what define a civilization. Labels like peaceful or barbaric are put on different civilizations because of their morals. The morality of each civilization defined their religious beliefs. The lives of people who lived in the early ancient history time period were tough. They had to roam the land always looking for new game to hunt and plants and berries to gather. The people weren't united because of ...
- 2474: Definition For Satanism
- ... This faith includes the recognition of Satan either as a deity or as a principle. Three main denominations exist: the Church of Satan, the Temple of Set, and the Church of Satanic Liberation. Other short lived Satanic groups currently exist and have existed in the recent past. According to Statistic Canada, the 1991 census found 335 Canadians who identified themselves as Satanists. The actual Number is probably significantly larger. A United ...
- 2475: The Mormons
- ... to construct a temple and a hotel there. In 1843, Smith secretly instituted the practice of plural marriage among a group of his followers. This could be because he himself had 50 wives. The Mormons lived in relative peace until 1844 when a group became mad about Smith's practices. They started a newspaper called the "Nauvoo Expositor" and attacked him, accusing him of practicing polygamy. Smith denied this charge but ...
- 2476: Monasticism And The Code Of Chivalry
- ... have communion in peace without the fear of the Roman government, this place was Egypt. They were called hermit monks. But others, Christians, had their ideas of the way that a Christian life should be lived. They wanted to live in a community, so they could worship together as a group instead of being alone. Benedict of Nursia established a rule that was used by most of the monks as a ...
- 2477: The Egyptian Religion
- ... he wanted, for example in the 14th century BC Akhenaton, the Pharaoh outlawed all gods but Aton, who was the sun god, and this became the first monotheistic religion in history, but it was short lived, for when he died the new Pharaoh overruled the law and restored the other gods. The Egyptians Sacred literature was the “Book of the Dead” which consisted of 42 “negative confessions” , spells and ...
- 2478: Christianity
- ... discovered in the New World should be dedicated to the recapture of Jerusalem from the Moslems.2 Columbus saw the discovery of the New World as a prophesy coming true. He saw the Indians that lived there as a labor source that should be Christianized and used for the greater good of the church. The implementation of his two fold plan had its difficulties; However, this did not stop or discredit ...
- 2479: What Is Buddhism?
- ... is a title not a name. It means ‘one who is awake' in the sense of having ‘woken up to reality'. The title was first given to a man called Siddharta Guatemala, who lived about 2,500 years ago in Northern India. When he was 35 he found Enlightenment whist in profound mediation, after searching for years. In the next 45 years of his life he spent it traveling ...
- 2480: Art In The Bible
- ... between black and white. This may present a formidable situation for many, however, for Michelangelo this was not clear enough. He took the Christian religion that was important to him and the society that he lived in and percieved it a way more accoustomed to the modern world. He created a sense of greyness in a world that was previously percieved as only black and white. In his depiction of Adam ...
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