Week 4 Assignment #1 Me’Shaw A. Taylor Dr. Anne Keyes REL 212 4/29/12 Discuss the criteria you will employ to determine if people on earth are religious — in other words, what does religion look like? Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and sometimes, to moral values (Talal, 1982). Religions most notably are represented by symbols, stories, traditions or anything that tends to explain the meaning of life or
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Week 5: Assignment 1 Religious Life on Planet Earth Anna Papp Prepared for Professor Laila Ghauri REL 212, Strayer University July 30, 2012 As an alien who has landed on planet Earth, I would have to base the criteria on what my location is. The first thing is to observe the area that I am in as it may be different than other parts of the world. To some, religion consists of explanations of existence (or ultimate meaning) based on supernatural assumptions and including statements about the
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Assignment # 1-Report on the Religious Life of Planet Earth REL-212 April 26, 2012 Planet Earth 1 Discuss the criteria you will employ to determine if people on earth are religious — in other words, what does religion look like? In almost every aspect of live most people seek some kind of courage, comfort and inspiration in some kind of
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Assignment 2: Report on Religious Field Research Sage Smith REL 212 Monique Baucham March 11, 2012 I chose to research the Catholic religion since I know very little about the Catholicism except that it was my mother’s religion. I went to church very briefly but was too young to grasp what Catholicism was about and how a Catholic was taught to act and believe. When I was in high school, I briefly dated someone who was a very conservative Catholic and we talked about our beliefs
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Cortlandt Watkins Rel 212-83 Essay1 December 9, 2013 The Rich Fool I have chosen to write my paper on the parable of the rich fool. This parable is about a rich man that has a abundance of grain. So much grain that he has nowhere to store the overflow. He decides that he is going to knock down the barnes the he currently owns and build bigger and better barnes. After doing this he now has enough space to store all of his extra grains. The rich fool sits back and says to himself I have stored
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UNITED METHODIST CHURCH United Methodist Church Marie Wyatt Strayer University Rel 212 Rev. Donna DeVoe Baker 12-10-2012 Getting to know about a religion and getting misconceptions of what you thought about a religion can be very interesting. It is hard to believe that someone can go to a church the majority of their lives and come to find out some of the things they were taught is not all true. Sometimes this misinformation comes from parents, which could be that they were misled
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Kara Webster REL 212 5th March 2013 Unit 3 – Write Like Paul I Paul a follower of Christ Jesus. To Scott our respected pastor, to Clifford, Christian, and Alex our worthy ushers, and to the beloved people of the church. I pray grace, peace, and blessings over you from our Father and Jesus Christ. I remember all of you in my prayers. I appreciate your faith and admire your obedience. I pray that you are active in sharing your faith
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WORLD RELIGIONS – REL 212 World Religions | | | HINDUISM & JAINISMWEEK 2 | | Cosmogony - Origin of the Universe | Hinduism-No founder and no starting point. Jainism- Founder Mahavira 500 B.C | Nature of God/Creator | Hinduism-Vishnu, Brahma, Shiva, Many Gods Jainism-No Gods worship Siddha, Mukta | View of Human Nature | Hinduism-Birth, death, re-births Jainism-All things have souls but to achieve liberation you have to have human form. | View of Good & Evil | Hinduism-Balancing
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ASSIGNMENT #1 Judith Posey, Student Professor Yancey, Instructor REL 212 – WORLD RELIGIONS July 23, 2012 In order for people to make sense of their life and to find the purpose for their being, they try to find something that they can use in an effort to put order in their lives. Religion is what most people use to help deal with the day to day events which take place in their lives, whether good or bad. Religion also helps them to rely on something other than themselves to help
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Religion and Science REL 212 October 11, 2013 Professor Richardson Religion and Science When viewing Chapter 1’s podcast titled “Scholar Says Religion and Science Can Co-exist”, I agree with the notion that both can coexist. As mentioned by Michel Martin from the Faith Matters show, “religion is about the why. Science may be about the how” (NPR News, 2010). In my opinion, this makes perfect sense. I feel that when a child is born, they are automatically placed in a religion in which
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