… bad term of the religious idea and it contrasts our religious text in our books. The Movie, Jesus of Montreal is not about the meaning of God, or his crucified son, but about the meaning of lives lived now under the shadow of the faith that blinds his…

… Place? “The making of meaning is a serious business” (Marsha G. Witten) In times of great population shifts, occupational and geographical mobility and rapid cultural changes; religion reinvents itself in response to its social circumstances.…

… Mariner, the author uses the story of a sailor and his adventures to reveal aspects of life. This tale follows the Mariner and his crew as they travel between the equator and the South Pole, and then back to England. The author's use of symbolism…

… Women. This topic did not start out as holding a special place in my heart or as something that meant a lot to me. To tell the truth, the topic to me just sounded like a good cause that our group could find a lot of information about. So I agreed…

… First Church of Christ, Scientist was founded by Mary Baker Eddy over a century ago in Boston, Massachusetts. Her discovery of the idea of the science of Christianity came shortly after a fall on the ice. After consulting doctors and receiving grim…

… of one boy’s survival of the Holocaust. Elie starts describing his early years in the town of Sighet in Transylvania. Here his father was a prominent member of the Jewish community and Elie devotes his entire life to his religious beliefs. “During…

… century Judaea, whose religious zeal lead them to fight to the death against Roman domination, and to kill or persecute Jews who collaborated with the Romans. Zealots fought their way to freedom from enslavement, by not giving up the battle (Hasting…

… ethnography of an Iraqi village in her work, The Guests of the Sheik. Within her book, Fernea considers the element of gender and its impact on the roles of women in Iraq, as well as the expectations based within the gender-specific social constructs,…

… written by Paul Watt for the Asia Society's Focus on Asian Studies, Vol. II, No. 1, Asian Religions, pp. 21-23, Fall 1982. Copyright AskAsia, 1996. The Japanese religious tradition is rich and complex, encompassing within it both complementary…

… in the Bible has always fascinated critical thinkers and creative artists alike. In this paper I am going to evaluate the first two commandments as explained by William Barclay in his handouts and then show how the Polish filmmaker Krystof Kieslowski…