... a new global environmental ethic, which requires a transformation of many of the underlying assumptions behind all religions throughout the world. How people treat the environment directly relates to their beliefs about how they think of themselves in relation to everything around them. The way we think of ourselves, in relation to the world surrounding us, has an extreme effect on our utilization of land and animals and our treatment or ignorance toward ... . There are cremation ghats on the riverbank, where pyres burn the eternal resting place for Hindus. Farther up the Ganga, along th...

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... , to which the Jewish people must adhere. At the end of one's life, after living the commandments and the Torah, modern Judaism allows that one will have a deliverance to the promised land, or what would be conceived as the ultimate holy. The creation of sacred times in Judaism allows the opportunity for annual cycles of ceremonies to mark events in the life cycle as well as events pertinent to the history of the Jewish people. Islam ... holy city. Western Christianity is also a monotheistic religion which is centered around Jesus of Nazareth, who is the only begotten son of God. Jesus i...

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... primitive and sinful if one is a Christian. (Haase, 1978).This progressively created a situation where the links of fusion of the age-sets, the detaching of the youth from family and clan to do social and military service for the nation, the provision of communal labor to sustain the economy, the parallel initiation of young ladies to ensure family life and symbolize birth and rebirth through initiation, all supported by ... "attributed angered ancestral spirits" that cause patients to utter nonsense and have fits; Kutanda Botso which is attributed to the spirits of the dead mothers and...

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