Religious studies

country. America provided many freedoms, such as education and freedom of expression, that born citizens may take for granted, but immigrants certainly did not. To immigrants, America offered access to public education, provided a safe haven from religious persecution, and safeguarded freedom of expression -- all of these are tools which immigrants used to…

Introduction Religious organizations, especially on college campuses, can sometimes be viewed by the public as intimidating due to the rules and stereotypes associated with religious groups. Journey, a Christian worshiping community at the College of Charleston, encourages an open-minded approach to spiritual growth throughout college by communicating with students in a way that welcomes all types of students without judgment. This organization is a discourse community, a group of people that…

importance of the Bible in The Pilgrim’s Progress cannot be overemphasized. He says, “[Bunyan] frequently quotes from it explicitly, but often we find that he has absorbed biblical phrasing into his own prose. The Bible was absolutely central to religious thought and practice in the seventeenth century, and to artistic, scientific, and political thought” (Introduction xxiv). Bunyan did not think of his book as a work of fiction. He thought that because of the way he wove the bible into his…

Corn. Evil is woven throughout the story, as Isaac and his followers perform demonic rituals and murder mass amounts of people, including their parents and all the adults of the town they reside in. Children of the Corn is heavily intertwined with religious symbolism, including that of praising a demon-god known as “He Who Walks Behind the Rows”, which portrays the children using traditional Christian symbolism in twisted forms such as burning crosses, and demon-god praising rituals such as…

Serving our Persecuted Brothers and Sisters. Eliezer G. Mwankenja Messiah College Serving our Persecuted Brothers and Sisters. Before Jesus was crucified on the cross, he told his disciples that in this world they will have tribulation. Also, Jesus told his disciples that they do not belong to the world anymore because he chose them out of it. As a result, the world will hate them because they belong to him and because the world hated Jesus first. Furthermore, Jesus told his…

Australian (Dunn 1993). As well as creating interactive community activities, individuals in Cabramatta also share and respect similar religious beliefs, for instances Cabramatta is surrounded by different worships centres, this demonstrates a multicultural community as they accept and respect other religious beliefs rather than a society that say practice and preach one religious belief…

Rap and Gospel are alike and difficult in several ways. As you all may think that rap and gospel are different in many ways, but they’re not. Of course you listen to gospel, while you praise and give God the glory. On the other hand, rap you listen to it to fit in, you get a vibe off of it, and it sounds good. Reasons why they are different and alike: different feelings, profanity level, and how they play a role in society. First, Rap and Gospel are alike, because they both play a part in…

Each of these points are examined exclusively and identified with scriptural standards with an end goal to illuminate the pertinence particular expense bookkeeping ideas to the Christian perspective. Expense bookkeeping is a field of study that is loaded with numerous standards and techniques to be learned in the quest for a fruitful bookkeeping profession. For Christian people occupied with the investigation of expense bookkeeping, it is advantageous to decide how the standards and…

Lori Aden Professor Sherilyn Grant BIBL111 Intro to Christian History/Thought 3 May 2018 The Place of Scripture in Evangelical, Liberal, and Neo-Orthodox Thought The authority of scripture is an important part of Christianity today, and it always has been. Scripture is the foundation of the religion we all serve. But, the power that scripture has in different categories of Christianity is different. Which is something I didn’t realize until I started really studying this topic. Vaguely to…

I took this course in the hopes of clearing up my confusion regarding what I consider to be one of the major contradictions in the Bible, God’s view on homosexuals. I have always struggled with the idea that God loves us all but that He considers some of His creation to be an “abomination,” for being born a certain way. And I am glad to report that I feel that my questions were answered during the week that we learned about the different methods of reading the Bible. Now, through a…