Interfaith

Homelessness has become a complex problem throughout the United States, especially in the last few decades. This issue affects every single person in our society, regardless of background, age, gender, and social class. Homelessness is not a problem we can solve overnight, but if communities come together and focus on different aspects of the issue, such as lack of shelter space and access to basic human needs (hygiene products, food, water, clothing, etc...), life would drastically improve for…

In the age of innovation and information, there is little that people cannot discover with the help of the internet. Dynamic and complex concepts can be diluted into a mere sentence for almost anyone to understand. Yet, there are transmundane terms that cannot be fully grasped or understood, though many have tried. Religion, and its definition, is one of those terms. Superficially, it seems like a relatively easy phenomenon, but as soon as the attempt is made to solidify the definition,…

Greenwood, Mississippi, known as the cotton capital of the world, emerged in 1844. It was incorporated by Chief Greenwood Leflore, a Choctaw Indian Leader. Before the creation of this city, United States negotiator, John Coffee along with Chief Greenwood, signed a treaty in order to receive land. This treaty was known as the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. It ceded some of the Choctaw nation land in exchange for fifteen million acres of the Indian territory. Not only did it cede land, but it…

Selman heard from one of his coworkers at BHC that a new clinic called Samaritan Counseling Center of Tyler was opening soon. Samaritan’s principles which are demonstrated in their mission statement, “Samaritan Counseling Center of Tyler is an interfaith community based service that seeks to improve the health of mind, body and spirit through counseling, psychotherapy, research and education”, interested Selman, so he decided to apply for a psychologist position there. Soon after starting work…

Coaches are NOT registered dietitians. Although, they may have good nutritional knowledge and advice, it is not reliable due to their limited knowledge and credentials due to it has come from sources such as their peers/colleagues. When a coach begins to counsel clients or players about meal preparation, food choices, and even going shopping for or with their client or player, they have then begin performing the role of a registered dietitian. This could cause a huge ethical dilemma especially…

Erick Garner, mush like Jyoti Singh, represented a symbol of injustice and hope for the society in which he was recognized because he too was assaulted by people of higher power. He too faced discrimination by his justice system through the act of victim blaming. However, his incident took place in America, a first world country that was very open about its racial acceptance and its strong justice system. Also unlike Jyoti Singh, Garners injustice was a result of a product of events leading up…

Exploration Project 3 Participant Observation By Devon Tiedemann-Pikala Minneapolis Community and Technical College GLOS World Religion I am catholic; I was baptized and raised catholic. So I do not have a lot of knowledge of many outside religions, this class has opened my eyes up to the views of many other religions and one of those that has caught my eye was Buddhism. Some of the reasons I was attracted to learning more about the Buddhist religion it seems like a very…

Book Review of Thomas Banchoff, ed. ‘Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics.’ Banchoff, Thomas, ed. Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics. Oxford University Press, 2008, 348 pp., £54.00 hard body (ISBN 978-0-19-532340-5), £13.99 paper body (ISBN 978-0-19-532341-2). To be submitted to the ‘Journal of Interreligious Studies.’ Introduction The book; ‘Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics’ was published in 2008 by Oxford University Press. It…

The prime objective of this critique is to highlight the various issues related to cultural divergence that Bapsi Sidhwa has dealt with in her fourth novel ‘An American Brat’. An American Brat contrasts the status of women in the Third World and First World countries through a female character Feroza who migrates from Pakistan to America where she finds herself tempted for an inter-community marriage. An assortment of elements such as diaspora, self assertion, female characterization, migration…

Family structure and gender roles In Ladakhi society, a family can be regarded as a household economy, in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The place of residence, not relationship and lineage, defines a family in the Ladakhi sense: one third of houses host three or more generations (extended), while half host two (nuclear), with defined rights and obligations for each person (Jolden, 2013, p. 113). Even the family name is derived from the house name. The location, animal…