Religious ecstasy

William James undertakes a tremendous task in this journey: he seeks to combine religious experiences into the psychology field of his time. James provides a unique perspective due to his education as a physician but he also provides sufficient experience as a psychologist and philosopher. During this time period, scholars of different fields of study were just starting to communicate with each other. This collection of lectures is James’ attempt to integrate religion and spirituality into…

description of how Mabel Pervin and Jack Fergusson were before coming out of the pond and after. Before going into the pond Mabel Pervin was a dead character who did not process thoughts and was emotionless (382). She was described as “ in a sort of ecstasy to be coming nearer to her fulfilment, her own glorification, approaching her dead mother, who was glorified (382).” a sentence that referred to the bible and was foreshadowing that Mable was going to commit suicide as her death would fulfill…

Going hand in hand with the mass incarceration of African-Americans is current their disenfranchisement. According to Michelle Alexander, this new Jim Crow has “disenfranchised [more] today than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified prohibiting laws that explicitly deny the rights to vote on the basis of race” (Alexander, 2011, p. 180). All but three states have some type of law prohibiting prisoners or even individuals who served their full sentences from voting in elections…

of Caravaggio was influenced by Miguel Ángel humanistic naturalism and the Renaissance. In his paintings are often characters, drawn from everyday life, engaged in activities of daily living, as well as also passionate scenes of mythological and religious subject. The Carracci school, by contrast, tried to liberate the art of his mannerisms returning to the principles of clarity, monumentality and balance typical of the Renaissance. This baroque classicism had a significant presence throughout…

will explore their cultural and religious identity as bondservants, in American literature and bring it to the arena of the church, with its own space and debate. This unique study, will create a theoretical framework that can greatly enrich more studies for the humanities. I will…

After the Truce of 1609, churches could rebuild and redecorate once more, thereby leading to the increase in religious commission. One such commision, was Peter Paul Rubens, The Raising of the Cross. Commissioned for the Church of St. Walburga in Antwerp, The Raising of the Cross, was a massive altarpiece, which blended both Netherlandish, and Italian art to create…

Western clothing is a step in the right direction. The underlying notion that Sciolino drew out of the interview with the women was that they were trying to find ways in which they could fight for equality amongst women and men while still abiding by religious…

Evilness. Existentialism. Right vs. Wrong. Creationism. These are many topics that philosophers debate over every day and they are just a few topics that The Island of Dr. Moreau covers. The Island of Dr. Moreau is a book that answers many philosophical questions in a pithy fantasy narrative and gives these insights by intricately developing the characters through indirect characterization. The Island of Dr. Moreau is the story of Edward Prendick and how he accidentally comes to the Island of Dr…

Take me to Church by Hozier Take me to Church is a polysemous song that used love and ecstasy as a religious metaphor. The song simultaneously advocates for the human rights. The choice of words, Americana accents and style as a blues genre made it unique in addition to its sensual and emotional effect. The song is centered on to address man’s struggle to find his own identity in an oppressive culture of church, in a generation greatly influenced by the Catholic church and a nationalism that he…

Marie would also have uncontrollable weeping and sobbing, “Wherefore for a long time after this visitation she could neither gaze at an image of the Cross, nor speak, nor hear other people speaking about the passion of Christ, without falling into ecstasy through a defect of the heart. Therefore she sometimes moderated her sorrow and restrained the flood of her tears…” (de Vitry 218). Margery performs a reenactment of these uncontrollable episodes where she cries and weeps most of the times that…