African traditional religion

know my God seen His breaks and His edges are jagged for giving that pain to His city in gold,” says Noname in Chance the Rapper’s song “Finish Line/Drown.” Religion has been one of the most popular conversations since the beginning of time; whether you are religious or not, the question of how we came to be has crossed your mind. What is religion? It is defined as the belief in a god or gods, but does it mean something different to you? If you think about it today, or even 10 years ago, how…

primary and germane arguments in his “Remonstrance” and also explore the two prevailing yet competing judicial interpretations of the First Amendment. A rebuttal of Patrick Henry’s “A bill establishing a provision for Teachers of the Christian Religion,” Madison’s “Remonstrance” lists fifteen arguments and refutations of Henry’s bill to the Virginia state legislature, three of which neatly apply to Lee: 1) Man must render God in a way that is acceptable to him, not the state, 2) religious laws…

shown through our religious beliefs. Every culture that makes up my bloodline; Norwegian, Irish, and Native American English, all have Christianity as their dominant religion. This explains why my family is so passionate and adamant about passing these religious practices off to the next generation of their family. Overall, religion is just a title and a way to label a person. A relationship with God is what I find the most important about my culture and through Him I find my…

TITLE The Next Christendom by Philip Jenkins is a non-fiction work about the growth and changing of Christianity from a predominately Western religion to a religion that is becoming more concentrated in the South. In the opening portion of the first chapter, his goal is already made clear when Philip Jenkins states that, “the center of gravity in the Christian world has shifted inexorably away from Europe, Southward to Africa and Latin America, and Eastward, toward Asia,” (1). He goes on to…

explanations for why humans turn to religion; these include revelation as an origin, the natural knowledge-of-god, anthropological and psychological explanations. These explanations look to where the concept of religion originated. Why do people believe in a higher being and why do individuals act according to the values and practices related to their beliefs? These theories and explanations look to find the reasoning. Revelation as origin is the idea that religion originated through revelation…

God Gives Meaning To Life When I hear the word “religion”, God comes to my mind very quick. Many people find religion very controversial sometimes because they don’t believe in God or don’t want to hear about him. For many people and philosophers God gives no meaning to life and for others God does give meaning. Personally God gives a lot of meaning to my life and helps me with my daily life. For some people God is very important and others know about God but have no interest whatsoever. God…

The original pragmatic maxim and the whole creation of pragmatism derive their origins from Charles Pierce, the creator of pragmatism and its principle. The pragmatic principle that Pierce develops can be put forth from his essay, “How To Make Our Ideas Clear”, that “our idea of anything is our idea of its sensible effects.” (56) According to Pierce, pragmatism says our understanding or meanings of objects and beliefs formulate because of the qualities and characteristics that the objects and…

I 've never bought into the belief that you can 't be spiritual and rich at the same time. A lot of people I know feel that it 's their obligation to be poor because they are so spiritual. They feel like money will corrupt them and turn them into a greedy and unethical person. I feel like making money doesn 't turn into someone like that - you either are someone like that or you are not before money even comes into the equation. That was a thought reverberated in the Spiritual Laws of Money…

excellence of something? One noticeably valuable and monumental characteristic of arête is religion and what it means to be religious. For this interview I chose to examine my mother, Sandy, knowing she would have the capability to produce knowledgeable answers relating to the means of being religious and the potential connections they have to excellence. Growing up my family was always committed to religion, not in a crazy and impractical way, but in a go to church every Sunday, pray at the…

Christianity and Islam are some of the most well-known religions in the world, and often thought of as completely separate. However, in actuality, they share as many resemblances as they do distinctions. Islam’s beginnings came about before Christianity. Christianity was created after Jesus came to the earth. Thus, Christianity was founded a couple centuries after Abraham formed his family. Christianity is a religion that bases its teachings on the those of Jesus Christ. Whereas, Islam is a…