During my visit, I analyzed my encounters with Hinduism in terms of the anthropological definition of religion, "a set of beliefs based on a unique vision of how the world ought to be, often revealed through insights into a supernatural power, and lived out in the community" (577). I was mainly interested in the way religion is lived out in the community and the role it plays for the everyday lives of devotees, as many popular definitions of religion fail to account for the personal aspects that come with ritual and practice. ... While it was interesting to learn of God's numero...

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The author develops his argument by using the animal's ability to forget or "live unhistorically," as a demonstration of pursuing happiness by living in the present (Nietzsche, 34). ... However, if humanity adopts the animal's ability to forget, the species will also enable the ability to only appropriate elements of the past that are "life-serving" and forget those that are unnecessary or harmful to our happiness (Nietzsche, 36). ... For Marx, religion is at the root of capitalism, in which humanity is alienated from internal, creative powers, which allows an ext...

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