... works and laws and worship" (813). This revision of religious beliefs gave people a new way to express and understand their religious hunger. Emerson's revision came to be known as Transcendentalism. Transcendentalism was greatly based on religious experience. For Emerson and other transcendentalists, direct experiences in nature were experiences of the holy. This new set of beliefs provided religious sentiment for a modern world. Religious experiences were ... no longer limited to churches, the Bible, or preachers. Emerson searched for these religious experiences within himself and in ...

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... that ever increasing environmental deterioration around the world threatens the very basis of human life, certainly the quality of life, one is forced to ask the churches - of all religious beliefs - "Where have you been on this issue?" And then, probably more importantly, "Where are you going to be, what part are you going to be playing?" In evaluation of different ... religious beliefs, it is easily apparent that the most religious beliefs are not only aware of the all the ecological concerns but are adamant in fighting to confront the impeding environmental crisis. Both Buddhism and ...

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... and religious conflicts of our age, as they are reflected in drama and fiction, then we must look at the outset to understand the nature of the relationship between literature and belief. Nothing is harder for a writer to write how they view religion or anyone else for that matter ... where the shadows flee away," as defined by Leonard I. Sweet"(Jolstard, pg. 51). You take for instances the Pentecostal religion; there are so many different beliefs. The difference between what people call the Trinity and the One God or Jesus, only as some call it is a wide gap. They all believe ... how t...

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