Secularism

The extremely creative writer Mark Noll of Wheaton College (Illinois) on his inspiring survey of the history of Christianity designed for the general reader. Dr. Noll graduated from Wheaton as an English major and from Vanderbilt with his PhD in the History of Christianity in 1975. After four years of Trinity College (IL), Noll joined the Wheaton College in 1979. Author of several other books. Unlike the usual this book is one fact after another church history "turning points" Dr Noll end…

When the new social class movement, Renaissance, occurred around the fourteenth century, a revival of the classical forms originally developed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, an intense concern with profane life, and interest in humanism and assertion of the importance of the individual began. This intellectual movement developed in Italy, more specifically Florence. Thus, artists like Masaccio and Giotto represented art that in contrast to the middle Ages, showed emotions, feelings, and…

Claim: Religion is nonessential when concluding right and wrong though Religion has framed morality since the Genesis of civilization therefore its sovereignty on society will prevail secularism. Morality is relative to the cultural values and beliefs set in place. The rules possessed by cultures across the world originate from the religious beliefs and morals of the ancestors who left them behind. Through the centuries morality has evolved within each and every culture as the cultures adapt…

ABSTRACT Goa is the only state in India that regardless of religion has an active and enforced Uniform Civil Code (UCC) for all citizens even though India has different civil laws for different religious communities. The Portuguese Civil Code that remains in force even today was introduced in the 19th century in Goa and wasn't replaced after liberation. The first step for implementing the Uniform Civil Code was taken in 1954 by enacting The Special Marriage Act. Later, it was followed by 4 Acts…

In Patrick Allitt’s book “The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History” there was several constant themes throughout the book regarding the rise (and ebb?) of conservativism in the United States. Dr. Allitt quietly apologizes to the reader that his book was limited in its pages and scope. One must suspect that major events like the era of Reagan conservativism could have consumed multiple chapters or volumes. Dr. Allitt provides to the reader various thumbnail…

Who is Ronald Reagan? Ronald Reagan was the forty-first president of the United States of America. President Ronald Reagan has received both praise and criticism for the way he lead the United States of America. Examples of some praises include reducing burdensome and unnecessary regulation of business, as well as restoring military strength and invigorating the economy. In addition, President Ronald Reagan was the most ideological president of the last decades, who affirmed that the Soviet…

Texts are cultural artefacts representing their epoch, shaped not by an immanent time but rather by the play of divergent temporalities that reflect and develop the values, ideas and attitudes of their context. Evident in Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s collection of poems ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ from the Victorian era, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1920s modernist novel ‘The Great Gatsby’, composers espouse the values and ideas of their time to explore notions of intertextuality within their…

Materialists do not perceive a divine purpose at work in life, and generally do not endorse religion, except, perhaps, various forms of material-ism: humanism, environmentalism, secularism, social/political activism, etc. — The pragmatist takes a practical, and somewhat experiential, approach to the study of reality, discovering how to apply a principle, but not necessarily why. Pragmatists are more interested in the effectiveness…

The primary object of feminist analysis is to objectively observe a particular phenomenon of female interactions to define the true function and/or existence of the object of study. Analysis provides a critical reflection on different theories and ideologies that may or may not be valid in the objective relationships between women in society. For instance, Chandra Mohanty (1988) has chosen to critically analyze the so-called hegemony of global feminist movements, which are often divided by the…

They are opposed to the influence of Westernization, which are in favor of secularism. Since this is the case, Islam enforces their religious views into their laws. This is where problems can arise for the peace process between them and Palestine. Islam is using military resources to fight a war in the name of their God. The article…