It concerns their capacity to relate in an intensely meaningful fashion to their sense of themselves, their community and their universe. For millions in all walks of life, religion provides support and nurture
In this book religion will be interpreted as the response that people give to such questions.1 The answers to these questions are part of the cognitive system of the civilization involved. The questions are all related to what the German theologian Paul Tillich called ultimate concern. Buddhists...
To the most sincere ardour and unction, Bishop Wilson unites, in these Maxims, that downright honesty and plain good sense which our English race has so powerfully applied to the divine impossibilities of religion; by which it has brought religion so much into practical life, and has done ...
Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, “Ecce Homo,”“The Antichrist” is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may be accepted as a statement of some of his most salient ideas in their final form. Notes for it had been accumulating for years and it was to have...
It is essential to recognize that Wicca is a form of religion as well as a form of witchcraft. There are strong beliefs in the Goddess as being supreme and being connected to the Horned God. Some of this dates back to ancientCeltic beliefs. The practitioners of Wicca are also highly conne...
creed can be stated very briefly, consisting as it did in a persistent advocacy of a via media in all things, a middle course between popular privilege and royal prerogative, or, to express it more definitely, moderation in secular reform with toleration in religion alike to Puritan and ...
Religion: Roman Catholic (around 83% of Malta’s population [11]) Number of Catholic churches: 359 Number of licensed vehicles: 413,019 [12] (The Maltese love their cars!) Drives on the left-hand side (one of only 18 countries in the world) Public transport: Bus route system, operated...
(gender, age, family configuration, caste, religion); (2) happiness as life satisfaction; (3) education; (4) occupation and employment status; (5) income and consumption level; (6) health status; (7) housing facilities and household assets; (8) social capital; and (9) security and ...
[212] Although his ethnicity is vague, his last name Gatz and his father's adherence to the Lutheran religion indicate his family are recent German immigrants.[213] This would preclude them from the coveted status of Old Stock Americans.[213] Consequently, Gatsby's socio-economic ascent is ...
The first care of the rulers is to be education, of which an outline is drawn after the old Hellenic model, providing only for an improved religion and morality, and more simplicity in music and gymnastic, a manlier strain of poetry, and greater harmony of the individual and the State. ...