In a talmudic reading of an encounter between a Sadducee and the Jewish sage Raba, philosopher Emmanuel Levinas notes how Raba, deep in study, rubs his foot until it bleeds. Levinas compares Raba’s rubbing to the act of ...

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 ...

Very rarely does politics and religion find a place in the field of American sports. Muhammad Ali, however, was an individual whose career incorporated religious and political influences. Save Jackie Robinson, no other ...

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 ...

In the Middle Ages sexuality was seen as something dangerous to the morality of good Christians. It was viewed as something that needed to be controlled and regulated by the moral authority of the Catholic Church. The ...

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 ...

With the end of the Second World War in 1945, colonial troops who had fought in the conflict returned home and joined movements demanding independence from European empires. This process of decolonization saw increasing ...

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 ...