It is uncommon to open a newspaper or turn on the news channel without being confronted with a current religious or ethical issue such euthanasia or the death penalty. "And because the impact of religious freedom extends beyond the realm of religion and has ramifications for a country's security and its economic and political progress, more students and practitioners of foreign policy need to focus more time and attention on it" (Clinton) The study of religion enables students to be better informed about the world and current affairs. Students should be educated on current glo...

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In Huston Smith's "The World Religions," he purports that there are currently two conflicting schools of religious theory. ... Confucius decided not to focus on matters of metaphysical importance in his discussions, though he was well-known for his ability to converse as deeply as Socrates, because he felt that things of that nature would not be applicable to his teachings. ... I believe that this method of teaching leaves far too many gaps when it comes to matters of deeper questions about life and focuses too heavily of the physical world to be classified under the banner of religion. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

America; has already focused a center of attention to Iraq and Afghanistan, by means of war "in the name of combating terrorism "and finding nuclear weapons of mass destruction. ... The architecture of U.S. foreign policy, currently, in Egypt, is last in terms of mass public interest. ... Therefore, Egypt poses a threat indirectly; furthermore, an indirect threat is indicative of their current failing state disintegration and a corrupt government. ... As well, governments with a track record of grave abuses will use the current atmosphere to step up repression in the name of the fig...

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The First Amendment was fomed out of the need to seperate Church and state, and religious communication became a focus. ... This became the focus of the Second Great Awakening, which was composed of three "theaters", or parts, in order to tackle these problems. ... this apparent lack of religion, faith adn morality gave way to a re-assessment of the current religious practices, which consequently became stricter. ...

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Through all of the events that have occurred in the area, the theory of Constructivism best describes how the current state of ISIS within the region came about due to the conflict caused by social interactions between actors within the region. ... A "worldwide caliphate" is the "concept of a single theocratic one-world government as proposed by some Islamists in their efforts to overthrow the world's current political systems (Phares)". ... "Now, ISIS's focus is on building its own state and consolidating its power in the areas it managed to control. ... How...

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Hashimi calls to focus on what Muslims wants rather on what islam theoretically decreed. ... However, when he looks at these successes, he joins with Hashemi inputting the focus on the fact that most of these successes are attributable to Muslims themselves. ... Esposito's section focuses heavily on practicality, which is reflected in its title: "Practice and Theory.... He utilized the current situation of the Middle East in an attempt to explain the lack of Islamic democracies. ...

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Attitudes Toward Muslims and Islam "is a study of Americans' opinions regarding a number of world religions with a special focus on Islam and Muslims.... One solution is through expanding on teaching education focused on Islam to elementary school children. This fix became the fundamental focus to abrogate Islamophobia because the importance of Islamic education in general will extensively open Islam to children who may not understand the religion in any other light than in the way that Western media portrays it. ... Integrating education to discuss the current misconceptions being m...

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Most religions have their taboos based on ethical and moral considerations, as well as prejudices, and some of them concentrate on women, and we will focus on them. ... Anthropology also focuses on the perception of the differences between women and men, and thanks to it, new information is being introduced about sex/ gender. ... If we focus on taboos about women, we do have different concepts and ideas based on sex, menstruation or postpartum. ... Their investigations are crucial to have a current picture of how religion sees women. ...

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Written and directed by Majid Majidi, not only does this film present a easily understood and emotional plot but it also contains numerous subtle commentaries on important factors varying from Islam to Iranian culture and finally to direct critiques of the current Iranian administration. ... A great deal of the movie focused on nature and mans' interactions with it, especially water. ... On the other hand, the father, representative of the current Iranian state, cared nothing for the birds, turtles or water until his son, representative of the nation's future, was drowning and by t...

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Page 295 Living Religions His early followers were people with very little hope from their government or the current Judaism religion. ... It focused strongly on how much the Lord loved his people, and forgave everyone no matter what the sin, if they truly asked for forgiveness. ... He sent Jesus as a messenger of his word and as a person that would straighten out the path of the current religion. ...

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All the major ones we know today evolved in many cases from a single, very influential, individual, who took their beliefs or thoughts, which were usually quite different than that of the time, and formed them into a unique and accepted system, which gave those current non-believers, a new way to think - and someone to follow. ... She was an instant believer Mohammad's new found prophecy and continually began encouraging him to focus on this newfound spirituality. ... The focus of this new Islamic faith was based on one God known as Allah, who created all which existed, and of which, Al...

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To begin our discussion, we'll focus first on Hinduism. ... Buddhism still focuses on suffering and evil, and that you must get beyond this to achieve the ultimate state. ... Dissimilar to earlier confucianism, current belief holds that there is no real appreciation for a monotheistic god. ...

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Muslim children are taught or forced in to submitting to God and when all focus of Baghdad is on the leader, the impression of a God-like figure is etched, branded on the brains of the children; and when ten years down the line (when the children are young adults) he or she will do anything that is demanded of them from Iraq. ... If you teach someone how to survive rather than "spoon-feeding" a fix for the current problem, things that were once a problem dissipate. ... A revamped United Nations would consist of counsels focusing attention on educating the masses of what is happening in his o...

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Muslim children are taught or forced in to submitting to God and when all focus of Baghdad is on the leader, the impression of a God-like figure is etched, branded on the brains of the children; and when ten years down the line (when the children are young adults) he or she will do anything that is demanded of them from Iraq. ... If you teach someone how to survive rather than "spoon-feeding" a fix for the current problem, things that were once a problem dissipate. ... A revamped United Nations would consist of counsels focusing attention on educating the masses of what is happening in his o...

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Wahabbi main focus was to live life based solely on the Quran and through Muhammad's example. ... The Consultative council also proposes new laws and amends current laws. ... King Abdullah of the royal family started to focus on developing the country and making more jobs and opportunities for the increasing population in Saudi Arabia by creating new economic cities which would offer over a hundred thousand new jobs for Saudi Arabians. ...

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Ibn Taymiyya would find many problems with Qadhi's current stance on many of his issues. He would criticize Qadhi's overarching focus on the western world and his heavy efforts in modernizing the religion of Islam in accordance with the time period. ... His manners of activism and focus on politics stray from "typical Salafi behavior, but it is something many scholars and followers have constantly fought over, as there is no blanket understanding among the group."...

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Media gives us the opportunity to hear someone else's opinion halfway across the world where as before, we would have been naive to the beliefs and current events of other nations. ... The American media tends to focus on the more unsavory aspects of religions that are not Protestant Christianity. ... It tends to focus on the violent extremist and give the impression that all Islamic people are violent and homicidal. ...

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But Zia's Islamization program focused on the social role of the urban female and this was named "chadar and chardiwari" program which soon became the slogan of the advancing forces of Zia's ideologies... Secondly Shariah Law itself has not yet been codified to the extent that it could replace the entire bulk of the English civil and criminal law currently in practice in Pakistan...

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Spanish Muslim traveler and geographer Ibn Jubayr's (Doc #1) description of Damascus as a highly honored, blessed, and heavenly city of Allah where Jesus and Mary took refuge in reflects the city's importance in Islam culture as a religious sacred site, which shows that Muslim cities during the Post-Classical Age strengthened Islam by attributing its current prosperity to the blessings of Allah and the alleged arrival of saints. ... Italian merchant Marco Polo's (Doc #5) picture of another prosperous city on the trade route, Tabriz, focuses more on the trading activities happ...

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Life in the Middle Ages was far from our current definition of "pleasant" or "enjoyable"; however, the positive influence of religion had a dramatic impact on the quality of life for many inhabitants of this age. ... As religion gave people something to focus on other than where there next meal would be coming from, their minds were set at ease with the understanding that there would be a better life for them when Death finally came for them. ...

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Miami is known for its diversity. We share different nationalities, culture, and religion. I am currently majoring in international relations focusing in the Middle East. The Middle East is a hot topic and seems to always be in the media, but I believe the media has created a different interpretatio...

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I will be operating under the theoretical frameworks of several writers and scholars, as the information provided through their books and scholastic journals will help elucidate the topics I have chosen to focus on. ... In a post 9/11 Western society, Muslims have been labelled as the face of the West's current threat as a myriad of media channels claimed that the ideologies of radical extremists was shared by the majority of the faith. ... Furthermore, Huntington classifies Islam as an expansionist religion that is prone to violence, establishing the narrative of Islam that is currently ...

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Prejudice of the Islamic faith is continuously growing as many Americans refrain from widening their education and understanding of the difference between the terrorists and perfectly humane members of the Muslim culture. Beginning with the terrorist attacks of 9/11, many Americans are quick to accu...

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"Culture consists of patterns, explicit, and implicit, of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiments in artifacts- (Belkaoli 29). These different "groups- of people have different patterns of behavior....

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Global terrorism is a subject all of humanity should be concerned about. In the last two decades terrorism caused by Muslim extremist has been on the up rise as well as consistent. The center of Islam is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the nation is in territorial control of the faiths two holiest cities, Mecca and Medina. Therefore to understand the force influencing global Islamic terrorism, it is imperative to study and analyze Saudi Arabia and its impact on the religion of Islam and its followers. Since its founding in 1932, Saudi Arabia has emerged as an economic power house in today'...

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