Hawaiian religion

In the Hawaiian language, aloha stands for much more than hello, goodbye or love. It has a deeper meaning of sharing (alo) joyfully (oha) of life energy (ha) in the present. Vero had taught Doroteya this and Doro kept this close to the matters of the heart. She found it interesting to her, and was engrossed by this inconsequential piece of data that provided no use to her at the moment and unaware of the voice at large. Her cerulean orbs were focused on dislocating the sand from the book as it…

One of the things I have learned in this class is that religious freedom has not been around that long. That a lot of people are angry with the natives for making a lot of religious claims on things that other people don’t see as a part of religion. We learned that laws are meant to be tested and if they aren’t how do we know they will work or where we need to set the bar. This also makes it unfair because they feel like there is not much rules to it so they disregard the clam. Along with that…

In, “20th Century Women’s Religion as Seen in the Feminist Spirituality Movement,” Cynthia Eller describes the rise of the Feminist Spirituality movement which helped meet the spiritual/religious needs of women by having a focus on female leadership and on the importance of women’s experiences. This movement found it’s origins in feminist witchcraft which had a resurgence in relevancy in the 20th century. At the time, radical feminists felt a strong connection to witchcraft because of the…

Once I started reading the first paragraph of the article written by Peter Cervelli “The Threat of Silent Earthquakes” it immediately drew me in. I was fascinated and alarmed by what I had just read. The fact that an earthquake with a 5.7 magnitude hit near a volcano where people visit every day and went unnoticed just blew me away (Cervelli). It is a blessing that the earthquake didn’t cause any devastation that day, but why did it not and if it had then how can we prepare for such a natural…

religion, right vs. wrong, and on and on. Although framing the complex social issues underlying the debate in this way may be politically expedient, it is counterproductive for anyone else seeking a solution that balances the concerns of descendants against…

Francisco Castillo Name: Fedor Felixovich Cabrera Exam # 1 Identify and explain the sources of religion. State the many and varied reasons why religion exists. Include in your answer the different theories advanced by these three thinkers: Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Rudolph Otto. No matter what the sources of religion are, they all are circumscribed to human activity, therefore religion is a human creation; although, some of these sources could have been inspired by a divine…

Moral ambiguity, strategic, and expressive voting can be understood as facets of the “problem of consensus” and the exclusion of religious arguments (or the inclusion of the duty of civility) from PJP. Firstly, he considers the case of Hawaiian voting, from which he argues that since the contribution and reasoning behind a vote are morally vague, the duty of civility is not directly derivable and religious arguments should be accepted. (Gaus 8-9) This is tested by formulating the Shared Reasons…

Western and Eastern cultures art reveals deep truths about the world. Cultures have different views and ideas about nature of reality. The direction of art is to portray beauty. With artistic realism in the 19th century and other shifts in taste, great art could be ugly in both its subject matter and its depiction. Western history, reality itself, created by God was conceived of as beautiful. The definitive voice in the identification of beauty with an ultimate reality was Plato theory. Beauty,…

He said this because he didn’t want the other Muslims to look at the Christians and Jews and think “hey they have a better life than me, maybe I should join their religion” This was a major issue for the Muslims. They feared that some of the Muslims would convert to Judaism and Christianity. If Jews and Christians converted the Muslims then the Muslim population would deplete and the Christians and Jews would overthrow…

Richard III is set in a world filled with force, greed, and conflict with ethical order. In the eyes of the characters, locating a way to stay moral is very challenging. When it is noticed that people who aren’t moral and doing as they please are gaining success, staying moral is testing. Being a Christian helped some characters who were conflicted, stay moral. Most of the men that are fighting for power stay immoral because their vision is clouded with power. From a Christian standpoint, it is…