In the summer of 1381 a large group of peasants led by Wat Tyler stormed London. These peasants, unwilling to pay another poll tax to pay for an unpopular war against France and discontent with unfair labor wages, freed prisoners from London prisons, killed merchants, and razed the home of Joh...

Why Conservative Churches Are Growing In this book Kelley addresses the issue that many mainline denominations are drastically decreasing in size and yet there are churches and religious groups that are growing, and the question is what is the difference between the two? The thesis of the book ...

Religion in SocietyIs the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints (Mormonism) a cult?The nature of Latter Day as a religion has been doubted; furthermore many are those that have claimed that this doctrine could be a cult. In this essay we would analyze the main controversies against this relig...

The 1973 United States Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade decision, while providing for some semblance of legal structure to the political debate over abortion, has led to further question within moral and religious aspects of our society. In that decision, the Court found that a woman had the right to choo...

Due to the wide range of habitats in North America, different native religions evolved to match the needs and lifestyles of the individual tribe. Religious traditions of aboriginal peoples around the world tend to be heavily influenced by their methods of acquiring food, whether by hunting wild anim...

Francis Bellamy (1855-1913), a Boston Baptist, Minister, penned the original Pledge in 1892. Dismissed from the pulpit because of his socialist sermons, Bellamy assumed the position of Chairman of a committee of state superintendents of education where he prepared the program for the public schools&...

Scientology:The Cult That Has Been Called a ReligionThe Church of Scientology has many deceitful practices that it portrays. It is a vicious and dangerous cult that masquerades as a religion. It practices a variety of mind-control techniques on people lured into its midst to gain control over their...

Banning Prayer in Schools When schools first opened hundreds of years ago prayer was always enforced, and the Bible was the only book most schools had to read. Our first constitutional right states that we have the right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and as our right the go...

Authoritarianism is defined as a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator. However society sometimes views authoritarianism as misused authority. Valid authority is aligned upon a necessary purpose. Misused authority involves reality control and domination. Metaphorically, it is...

Was there an 'Elizabethan Settlement' of religion? The issue of religion had been a long standing problem throughout Tudor England. For more than 60 years the two opposing beliefs struggled to dominate the realm depending on what the monarch believed in. Henry VIII initially al...

Voltaire ranks as one of the most well-known satirists in the history of literature. Many of his comments are as apt today as they were over three hundred years ago when originally written. His play, Candide, is one of the best examples of this literary technique. It includes many double entendres a...

Los Angeles is a city of many diverse ethnic groups. Many things are changing; as the culture becomes more dynamic, the religious aspects of landscape and place are changed and reconstructed for new purposes. There are various reasons why Los Angeles is a \"perfect\" city to show religious-based lan...

Euthanasia Discuss the potential implications of legalizing euthanasia in New Zealand and examine its possible advantages and disadvantages. Do humans have any rights when it comes to their own deaths? Euthanasia is a very controversial issue being discussed in today's public forums. Most...

Abstract Religious beliefs and the zeal of Missionaries and Preachers had an undeniable influence on America's history since the first explorers set foot on this continents shores. Religious was used as a tool to justify individual goals and to provide society with the justification for...

"Creed or Chaos"Dorothy L. Sayers looks deeply into the controversial topic of the church's downfall including how and why dogma plays a vital role in ones distrust in the spiritual strength of Christianity. "Creed or Chaos" focuses on dogma as such a doctrine of faith proclaimed by the church and ...

The Nature of Religious Education. Religious Education is an area of the curriculum that often provokes many strong opinions. In this chapter, I propose to look more thoroughly at exactly what Religious Education is in relation to its history alongside its implications in the Key Stage 2 classroom....

The Pledge of Allegiance is spoken daily in many schools throughout the United States. During the last several years this fact has become a source of contempt for many parents, who do not promote a particular religious belief in their homes. Reciting wording specific to a particular set of religio...

To be born again – is it the American experience only??? For many the United States of America is a very special country. It is the biggest melting pot on the Earth, the greatest land of opportunities for average people. This is a country which is proud of its religious freedom. This virtue...

During the period from 1500 to 1800, religious and political unity was strongest in Islamic Empires and East Asia; while Europe was in complete turmoil with no religious and political unity. The Catholic Church during this time had become a very corrupt institution, and there was hardly any town in...

Not knowing whom to depend on may guide a person's life into misery or death, especially if it were the life of a child. There is nothing worse then the suffering of children. This topic is a stigma, but two novels have dealt with this subject matter in a thought-provoking manner. Throughout F...

Vision, reality, and attitude, how would one define these three terms? Are they all related in some way? Vision is defined as the manner in which one sees or conceives of something. Reality is defined as the quality or state of being actual or true. Attitude is defined as a state of mind or a f...

Throughout my life I have been blessed with the opportunity to experience many things. I have been blessed with the opportunity to meet many unique and loving people who have influenced me to become a better Christian. As a young child Church and the gospel of the Lord was not a big part of my lif...

The exponential growth of the Cyber society and Cyber culture within the Internet has not gone unnoticed by the "religious community." As I write, church web sites are being published and electronic prayer groups zip by in modems and wire networks across the globe. Even isolated monasteries like t...

The significant debate on religion in schools is becoming more and more heated. Many people say that banning religion in schools would be unconstitutional, which in some aspects is understandable since the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of religion....

The Enlightenment was an era in human history in which thinkers and philosophers were convinced that they were rising from centuries of obscurity and unawareness into a new age made clear by reason and a respect for humanity. A number of thinkers and writers, mainly in England and France, believed t...