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Clause. I. The Establishment Clause: The Establishment Clause is implicated when a government program, or governmental legislation prefers one religion, or one religious sect, over another, or when the government is providing some benefit to a religious institution but the legislation or government program contains no religious or sect preference. If the former, then traditional strict scrutiny is applied, and the program will fail unless the government can prove that the program is necessary…

cults [from Rome], especially the Egyptian and the Jewish rites, compelling all who were addicted to such superstitions to burn their religious vestments and all their paraphernalia.” Caesar was banishing these religions, Christianity being a Jewish sect included, because they were different, and if people converted to these other religions this would be a potential disruption of the Pax Romana. Furthermore, on July 16 CE, the “Great…

crop. Religious sects and beliefs had already existed thousands of years before the Aryans had been settled around the Indus river. Most civilizations were centered in the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, both of which are in modern-day Pakistan.3 In Mohenjo-Daro, a large swimming pool-like structure remains, which archaeologists believe represented “a Great Bath,” which was used as a ritualistic site that connected to the characteristics of a god and a goddess in Shiva’s sect of Hinduism.4 A…

forced the cities officials to follow Islam, he then implied that the Ka’ba was only available to true and devout Muslims. (Bentley 295) After Muhammad’s death the following Dynasty was the Umayyad. Although the split of the faith into Sunni and Shia sects happened at the start of the Umayyad dynasty, it did not stop the leaders within that dynasty to make Islam more powerful. The Umayyad established a new capital in Syria, in the city of Damascus. By placing the new capital in a thriving city,…

contradictory religion can often be, when people pick and choose the rules that apply to them. One of the major focuses the Dean’s sect promotes was the denial of the many “pleasures of this world, for the earth and all that it held to them was but a kind of illusion, and the true reality was the New Jerusalem toward which they were longing.” (pg 1) Though the Dean was the leader of his sect, he was a walking, talking contradiction. He claimed to believe in selflessness and non materialistic…

Alike the Sadducees, historical data on this Jewish sect was vague, incomplete and perhaps thought to be destroyed until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is from the Dead Sea Scrolls that their existence was made available. The Essenes were a semi-monastic and separatist community, and they would have been the recorders and preservers of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Essenes lived ascetic lives. They denied themselves the pleasures and luxuries of the world system. They lived alone in…

to and following the 451 meeting. Ultimately, the tension between the Greek-speaking West and Latin-speaking East led to the Great East-West Schism of the Orthodox Church in 1054 CE. The church was now divided into the sects of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, of which a sect known as the Oriental Orthodox Church emerged a short while after the Schism. The secondary repercussions of the East-West Schism influenced the relations between the Roman Catholic Church and what would become the…

The Theological Differences as roots for separation between Judaism and Christianity During the second temple period, many sects emerged in Judea, among them were the followers of Jesus. The New Testament records the early stages of separation between the emerging Christianity and Judaism. The New Testament became a fundamental text on which later Christians based their beliefs. It describes the birth and teachings of Jesus. Christianity and the Judaism before were the same. Christians saw…

Due to the conflict within the religious teachings and interpretations, Islam has split into over 150 different sects, much like the Christian faith, many of these sects have little differences between them. This article outlines the five main sects: the Sunni, the Shi’ite, the Wahhabis, the Suffis, and the Bahaiism. The differences between these sects are due to the belief or nonbelief in the prophet Muhammad's words or the interpretation of them, questioning of the writings or…

all being practiced and promoted during his rule. This freedom of choice in religion is not seen in the Western countries where mainly Christianity was the only religion practiced. However, various sects of Christianity were practiced in Western countries. Catholicism and Protestantism being major sects of Christianity. The religions of the Qing Dynasty were primarily polytheistic whereas the Western religions were all monotheistic. Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism were the primary philosophies…