Civil religion

of these teachings, worship through temple puja. Consequently, adherents are guided in the journey of self and community toward the path of enlightenment. The interrelation between the aforementioned play a vital role in creating a living dynamic religion, whereby fundamental Buddhist teachings transcend into a modern day context, and can then be applied to respective contemporary issues. Buddhist ethical teachings from…

civilian population. To this day, the army remains a major political force and controls several cabinet portfolios, such as defense, foreign, border, and home affairs. Civilians living in ethnic areas are the worst affected by the country’s ongoing civil wars. The UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar says that between 1996 and 2006, the conflict has generated an estimated 1 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), many of whom belong to minority groups within…

the basic opinions of both sides; nature, which claimed that humans are born naturally evil and selfish, and nurture, which claimed humans’ actions are dictated by their experiences. I also knew that it was a very controversial topic, and that my religion claimed we were all naturally sinful based on the story of original sin, where the first humans God created, Adam and Eve, are tempted by Satan to eat forbidden fruit, which condemns the rest of humanity to unavoidable sin. Although this was…

of people in the society. For example, a manager and a construction worker have different needs. Similarly, the buying patterns of a housewife are different from that of a working mother. Personal factors include age, lifestyle, occupation, civil status, religion, economic status, and personality of the consumers. Psychological factors consist of motivation, perception, learning, beliefs, and attitudes. These psychological factors greatly influence a consumer’s buying pattern and due to these,…

freedom to use reason and gain knowledge from self-willingness. Webster states that the enlightenment was, “a movement of the 18th century that stressed the belief that science and logic give people more knowledge and understanding than tradition and religion”, so in authors such as Voltaire, Locke, and Kant, human freedom, the powers of the human mind, and scientific innovation are presented to support their ideals of human growth. All three of these authors all realise that if humans want to…

typical aspects of a short story. In the exposition (ll. 1-9) O´Flaherty introduces the reader to the situation, the main characters and the setting. He also sets the atmosphere of war so that the reader is involved in the mood of the time of the Civil War. An open beginning (“Dublin lay enveloped in darkness …”) is characteristic in that it catches him from the start. The main part of the story comprises details of the difficult political situation of that time with strikes and counterstrikes…

The separation thesis suggests that the law and morality are distinct in terms of conception. In this regard, the definition of law should be completely freed from moral ideals. Moreover moral considerations must not be included in the definition of legal terms such as legal validity, laws, and legal systems. Legal positivism suggests that there are no moral constraints on the validity of legal rules. The positivist community agrees that it is possible to have legal systems without moral…

Having only just emerged from civil war, Creon believes the best thing for Thebes is a strong, unwavering leader. Antigone’s near immediate disobedience following the war threatens him, provoking his fear of domination, especially of domination by those he considers inferior to him in…

Samir Moussa shared one of his success stories by narrating how he came about his music band name called SANDFLY. While he was in a jungles in Costa Rica, filming a documentary titled The “Hidden People”, a sandfly unknowingly deposited two parasites into his arm which cause deadly disease called ‘Cutaneous Leishmanaiesis’. He only noticed this, when he returned back to D.C. This particular disease has caused large number of people’s lives in many part of the world like India, Bangladesh, Sudan,…

Religion in “Sonny’s Blues” By Jade Burgess Most critics prefer to view James Baldwin as a civil rights writer rather than as a Christian writer with his Bible close at hand. Baldwin knew the Bible intimately and once claimed, "I was born in the church" ("Notes" 14). Tackach wrote that according to Campbell, Baldwin "knew the Bible so well that he colored his phrases with Old Testament rhetoric and poetry, with full conviction". Campbell states that "although he [Baldwin] left the church, the…