as HIV. The article asks the following questions regarding sex: “Does religion influence the frequency of and with which parents communicate about sexual topics? When religious parents say they talk to their kids about sex or birth control, do they primarily communicate values? Do more devoutly religious parents communicate less frequently about birth control?” The author’s aim is to see if there is any significance in religion and patterns of parent–child communication about sex. The author did
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When unorthodox religions or cult practices become inhumane or unjust Introduction This research project examines when unorthodox religions or cult practices either becomes or perceived as inhumane or unjust by specifically focusing on unorthodox religions during a twenty year period between the 1950’s through the 1970’s. The research focuses on five different unorthodox religions: The People’s Temple, founded by Jim Jones, Heaven’s Gate, founded by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, Scientology
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Catholicism Diana Haynes Professor Jacqueline Trussell REL 212: World Religions March 3, 2012 CATHOLICISM 2 Many people have many misconceptions about the catholic religion myself included. Among the misconceptions that I had will also come the correct explanation of what really takes place or how things are really done within the religion of Catholicism. I had always believed that people of the catholic religion prayed to different saints and the Virgin Mary as kind of like
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Religion in school is a huge topic that has come up from time to time in public schools all over the country. Many people feel as if students have no rights when it comes to religion in school but in reality their rights to practice religion in school are limited. According to Anti-Defamation League (2013), "Students have the right to engage in voluntary individual prayer that is not coercive and does not substantially disrupt the school's educational mission and activities” (para. 2). One particular
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know, religions affect our life everyday at every level. “Religions can therefore be understood as operating at multiple scales: individuals and collective; local, regional, and transnational.”(Veldman, 4) Religions help us shape our philosophy and behaviors. “For example, the worldview it provides could shape how the individual or group interprets changes in the weather, and the resources to watch it provides access could influence member’s ability to adapt.”(Veldman, 4) So we believe religion could
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Hughes, and the entirety of my class. The theory behind this essay is the idea that religion is attributed to conflict. Supportive evidence is abundant, there are enormous volumes of writing on this topic. Consequently, there’s plenty of theories, articles, papers, and support regarding this topic. In this paper, I will attempt to prove this, while trying to justify and backing up my evidence. Though religion has led to an abundance of answers to ancient questions, we are left to question
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issue I intend to research is how the modern religion of Mormonism shows the same qualities as a large cult. When we were choosing topics in class, we had discussed about a paper that a student intended to write about that was very broad. Does religion cause war? When we had to simplify that topic I wrote down something along the lines of why modern Mormons go on religious missions today? At home I had researched the means of why Mormonism is the only religion that continues to spread its works around
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Project Purpose and Topic Overview The purpose of this photovoice project is to recognize that there is a lack of education and training around the use of religion and spirituality interventions for social workers. Under the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics, social workers are mandated to practice cultural competence and to expand their practices to fit their diverse client population. This is one of the keys to being an ethical social worker. In a recent large-scale study
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212 WK 10 ASSIGNMENT 2 BROCHURE OR PRESENTATION REL 212 WK 10 Assignment 2 - Brochure or Presentation on a Religion Select one (1) of the following religions with which you are least familiar: Buddhism, Islam, or Judaism, and complete this assignment. Choose Buddhism, Judaism, or Islam and create a four to six (4-6) page brochure in which you: 1. Focus on one (1) of the following topics: a. major festivals (discuss a minimum of two [2] of your choice) b. meditation (purpose, method, etc.)
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Religion Professor 25 March 2014 My perspective Some people think that religion classes are very boring, while others are very interested in it. Every person has different opinions about different things. Most of college students are talking about religion classes as the biggest problem of their lives. Students were complaining about boring topics, professors, grade system and long hours of sleeping in the class. All these complain made me to think the same think the students were thinking
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