Religion, Commodity, or Escape: Sports in Modern American Culture
By Joshua R. Keefe - American sport has become far more than contests with rules played on fields, diamonds, or rinks. Our current conception of sport is more than just a ball moving between groups of...
View ArticleViewing Four Vonnegut Novels Through the Lens of Literary Criticism
By Lindsay D. Clark - I like Kurt Vonnegut because he’s innovative and unique, his literary voice speaking out of a time period I love, when he “was actually helping to breathe life into a new...
View ArticleMilk and Honey: How the Old Testament Speaks to a People in Exile
By Lindsay D. Clark - Mortal glory is fleeting. The Old Testament generally does not concern itself with militant triumph or climactic discovery. It much rather prefers to employ “legends, folktales,...
View ArticleReligion in Caribbean Literature
By Marion A. Davis - The language of religion plays an important part in the novels Brown Girl, Brownstones; The Farming of Bones; and In the Time of the Butterflies. In Brown Girl, Brownstones, the...
View ArticleJohn Locke On Equality, Toleration, and the Atheist Exception
By Adalei Broers - In order to understand both the progressive areas of Locke’s philosophy and the dogmatic ones, it is necessary to analyze his political and religious understanding of life, for these...
View ArticleRestoring the Social Justice Identity of the Black Church
By Robert S. Harvey - “Come unto me, all who are labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). In the days of past, the clarion call and mission of the black church was...
View ArticleRevisiting H.G. Wells' Depiction of Science and Religion in War of the Worlds
By Alex C. Hawley - Generally these inventions and discoveries are considered “good;” they are making life easier for us and helping us better our understanding of both ourselves and the world around...
View ArticleThe Concept of Unity in Elizabeth Gaskell's "North and South"
By Tristan G. Gans - North and South is a novel defined by the resolution of binary conflicts: heroine Margaret Hale is presented with a number of divisions of sympathy, between industrialists and the...
View ArticleThe Universal Prayer: How Money Became the World's First Shared Religion
By Maria T. Otero - As something so natural to us, money is part of our lives from the moment we are born. Our interpretation of it continues to evolve until the day we die. In our childhoods, we...
View ArticleThe Influence of Religion on Health
By Iulia O. Basu - Religion is a subject that we encounter daily, either because we follow a specific faith and the rules established by it, or because we meet people who proclaim their faith...
View ArticleSolving Health Issues in Ethiopia with Religion
By Iulia O. Basu - Dealing with the issue of healthcare is not a small deed for any country, either rich or poor. For Ethipoia, health issues represent a major challenge. Tuberculosis, malaria, mental...
View ArticleSlavery and Religion in the Antebellum South
By Iulia O. Basu - For many decades, scholars have debated the importance of religion in helping slaves cope with the horrible experience of slavery in the antebellum South. However, the way they...
View ArticleChinese Women and Christianity in the Late Imperial Era
By Iulia O. Basu - Christianity has not gained a large number of adepts in China, if compared, for example, with Japan. But Christianity in China, in the late Imperial Era, had a number of...
View ArticleNigromancy in the Later Middle Ages
By Lisa A. Bergstrom - The struggle of the early modern church against witchcraft is rightly famous. However, before they were hunting woman flying on broomsticks to nocturnal orgies, church...
View ArticleCan Religious-Based Ethics Play a Role in Development?
By Eve R. Hill - Development is closely linked to the idea of progress. Therefore the way in which progress is quantified, whether through economic, social or spiritual values, determines the way in...
View ArticleHuntington's Clash of Civilizations in Yugoslavia
By Fiona S. Ong - While Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations presents a compelling argument for the events that happened in the former Yugoslavia, the main argument that was set forth by him...
View ArticleBook Review: The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the...
By Hamad R. Hamad - In his book The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future Vali Nasr addresses an issue that is gaining increased importance in the contemporary coverage of...
View ArticleToward a Neurobiological Understanding of Religion: Examining Ritual and the...
By Joanna H. Gross - One of the numerous working definitions of religion includes "a belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers to be worshipped," and "an expression of such a belief in conduct...
View ArticleIgnoring Islam: U.S. Education in Need of Intervention
By Daniel J. Pfeiffer - The United States’ education system is unprepared to discuss Islam, despite the pertinence of religious education in the modern world. With the events of September 11, 2001, the...
View ArticleThe Influence of Social, Political, and Economic Factors on the Development...
By Melissa JL. Alvaro Mutolo - Eventually these bantu-speaking people would come to populate and dominate practically all the arable land in South Africa (Prozesky 1995:5). As ancestors of the Zulu,...
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