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    1.0 Introduction The central teachings of traditional Catholicism are that Jesus is the Son of God, the second person of the Trinity of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; that his life on earth, his crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension into heaven are proof of God 's love for humanity and God 's forgiveness of human sins; and that by faith in Jesus one may attain salvation and eternal life (infoplease.com, 2012). In Catholicism, the term scared means; The holy or divine. The…

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    emotion often associated with God in the Catholic religion. The directors’ way of portraying religious figures enhances the importance of religion and reinforcing the role of the Virgin and God as the saviours thus, contributing to the expansion of Catholicism through the film…

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    Achievement standard 90825 Analyse a religion tradition in Aotearoa New Zealand Catholicism in New Zealand I have chosen to analyse Catholicism in New Zealand. Catholicism is the oldest form of Christianity. It is one of the three main branches of Christianity including: Protestant and Orthodox. Catholicism is also the largest and most popular form of Christianity. In my report I will talk about how Catholicism is expressed in New Zealand through five specific essential components. The five…

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    Many of these students claimed to be Catholic, but the evidence presented by Dr. Smith suggests while the students may identify as Catholic and hold some similar beliefs, their religion is drastically different and not compatible with classical Catholicism as depicted in The Compendium: Catechism of the Catholic Church. Through his research, Dr. Smith was able to form a creed of this de facto religion, which consists of 5 major points. The First is that God exists, created all things, and…

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    saw themselves as the defenders of the catholic church. They spread catholicism to Asia, Africa, and America. The effects of all of this was that it created a loss of religion unity in western Europe. Political decision resulted as well. Rulers often chose a religion for their nations while some states remained catholic others became protestant. No catholic church was accepted but the catholic churches wanted to spread catholicism to as many people…

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    Treviño, Roberto R. The Church in the Barrio Mexican American ethno-Catholicism in Houston. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. In the book, The Church in the Barrio Mexican American ethno-Catholicism in Houston, Roberto R. Treviño begins by discussing his past growing up in a catholic culture along with being a minority. Treviño discusses how U.S. catholic culture is automatically assumed to be Mexican Americans and the Mexicans are mostly focused on the faith tradition…

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    Orientation Identification: The terms “Hispanic” and “Latina/o” are normally interchangeable, even though most governmental and scholarly documents have a preference for the use of “Hispanic”, while religious affiliations and grassroots incline to the latter one[ Suzanne Oboler, Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995), 3.]. In the past decades, those terms have come into general use in the…

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    The conflict between Catholicism and natural religion is evident within the main character, Antonio, who has been raised Catholic but is drawn to the natural elements. Antonio meets Ultima, the woman who delivered him, at age seven and finds that he identifies very strongly with her and with the natural religion she believes; “she took my hand and I felt the power of a whirlwind sweep around me. Her eyes swept the surrounding hills and through them I saw for the first time the wild beauty of…

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    In the passage “India”, Richard Rodriguez argues that rather than being an act of conquest, the Indian/European interaction as not always uniformly violent or exploitative; instead [he argues], it was a complex series of profit and transformative exchanges. Both the Indian and European cultures made visible advancements by coming to the new world. The Europeans had begun global trading network, and therefore, trading with other cultures became easier. Rodriquez argues that the Indian people…

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    however, they believe in reincarnation. People will be reincarnated until they gain enlightenment. In Islam, the belief is somewhat the same as Catholicism, but will all be judged at the end of the world: Day of Judgement. Until that day, those who are in hell will suffer in graves, while those in Heaven are in peace. The religions: Islam, Buddhism, and Catholicism all believe…

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