The history of St. Sebald Lutheran Church in Strawberry Point, Iowa is one of outreach and influence. Despite being located in a town that seems insignificant on a current map, St. Sebald itself was a hub of religious ...

America has an obsession with all things geek. One can hardly go ten minutes without hearing a reference to Spiderman, Iron-Man, or Thor. From Dr. Who to Dr. Strange, American have surrounded themselves with quasi-divine ...

This paper is a philosophical inquiry into the theological concept of revelation. I approach the concept in three stages and I divide the paper into sections accordingly. In §1 I consider what a claim to revelation means ...

The period beginning with Muhammad Mosaddeq’s premiership in Iran from 1950 through the revolution in 1979 was characterized by anticommunist policies enacted by Muhammad Reza Shah, and imposed by the United States and ...

This research includes religion and cults/conspiracy theory within the same realm of belief. The goal behind this research was to ask questions regarding religion and cult/conspiracy belief; and to try to analyze the reason ...

The religion known as Confucianism has been a prevalent part of Chinese society since before the time of the first Chinese Emperor of the Qin Dynasty. Confucianism has affected the identity of the Chinese people in their ...

Three of the Great Lakes Indian tribes: the Ojibwe, the Ho­Chunk, and the Menomonee share a number of similarities amongst the differences they also hold regardless of the origins of each tribe. Not only that, but the ...

This paper explores the ways in which an understanding of religion and God is often a simple reflection of social constructs and forms of ideology (the term “entrapped concept” being lent to this form of religion) and how ...

Roman authors such as Strabo, Lucan and Tacitus who describe the religious practices of the tribal people of northwestern Europe all refer to the Celts practicing human sacrifice. These authors also describe the Celtic ...

This research investigates a tangible component of ancient Roman religion through an examination of a selection of lararia, (shrines dedicated to the Lares, Roman gods of the household), which have been found in Roman ...