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John F. Kennedy once said, “There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction”. Former president Kennedy proclaims his view on the value and importance of taking action over remaining inactive. Although he is respected and followed by society, others do not all share this same value. In Chinua Achebe’s

In order to follow the transition of power and privilege in West Africa as it relates to the social phenomenon of family life, spirituality, economy and politics, it is imperative to do so in reference to time and events. In pre-colonial West Africa, women were at the forefront of all domestic affairs. The reason for this being that women were given jobs socially constructed to fit the mainstream idea that women could not carry out other certain strenuous duties such as hunting and fighting because of their biological build. In essence, while men carried out these physical tasks, women indulged in subtitle duties such as farming, sewing, religious guides etc. these duties, seemingly inconsequential as they were, played a major part in the development of primitive West African communities. A closer view into some of their practices would disclose why.

In conclusion, the rapid regions of Islam kept its original foundation while refreshing its political and economic design. The administrative phases of Islam connect to the experimental reign of classical Rome, as they also experimented with multiple political leaders- using more than 26 leaders! Islam’s continuity of Sharia’s policy also connects to the American loyalty to early documents, as the United States’ government continues to reference the Declaration of

Third, I wanted to examine the broader context of munitions making in terms of African and African-American beliefs, and to see how the "Munition Maker" participated in the internal structure of the tenant community on the Levi Jordan plantation. I will report on aspects of the first two sets of research questions on this paper; the questions relating to ritual will be addressed in a future forum.

Race and religion are two concepts in American culture that can really tie people together, or clearly separate them apart. A group forged by strong common roots in both race and religion can be a powerful societal force, if it wants to be. The Nation of Islam is a small but growing religion in America that has become somewhat of a social movement because of its strong and radical ideas on race. In this paper, I will try to explore the beliefs of the Nation of Islam, and the ramifications it could and has had on racial relations in America. The Nation of Islam, or NOI, is a relatively new religion. The first temple of Islam was established in Detroit by Master Fard Muhammed in 1930. Much

The political organization of the Mbuti people is that of a peaceful egalitarian lifestyle that has no defined leaders. Men and women have equal power. Issues are discussed around campfires and decisions are made by consensus. If there is a disagreement, crime, or offense, the offender may be banished, beaten or scorned. David Fabbro wrote in an article in the Journal of Peace Research that a number of societies to include the Mbuti “are small, face to face communities with a basically egalitarian social structure. Generally they lack formal patterns of ranking and stratification, place no restriction on the number of people capable of exercising authority or occupying positions of prestige and have economies which are based on generalized reciprocity” (Fabbro, 1978).

By extracting the outcasts from the society, the missionaries cause social upheaval and undermine the fabric of Umuofian society. In order for there to be a functioning society in Umuofia,

The Yanomamo, a group of about 10,000 indigenous tribesmen of the Brazilian Amazons, have earned the nickname of the “fierce people” for good reason. They are thought to be one of the most violent, male-dominated tribes to date. Aggression has become immensely ingrained in this culture, and has prevailed for much of their existence. Although some may deny and reject any rationale behind their behaviors, Harris (1989) discusses the reasoned dynamics of this unique tribe in Cows, Pigs, Wars & Witches: The Riddles of Culture.

The author argues that the Latin American CEBs strengthened the fight for democracy while the Protestants did not contribute much to the fight. A critical examination of the context reveals that religion only had a small part in the liberation of Latin Americans. The role of religion is mainly limited to social change and promoting people to make independent decisions and yearn for self-governing. Religion paved the way for economic, political and historical factors that led to the gaining of independence and democracy. The paper shows that religion only forms one part of the struggle for independence even for Afro-Brazilians. This is crucial in introducing other political factors that were in play during the abolishment of slavery in Brazil. The paper also shows the importance of religion as a social construct for a society. After the abolishment of slavery in Brazil, many liberated Afro-Brazilians constructed their cultural identity around church practices and rituals. Despite the differences in practices, religion remains as one of the unifying factors of community, and this helps in nurturing and advancing democracy.

Some laborers tried to break away from the economic confinement and create communities in which laborers could live peacefully, such is the case with the Palmares community. Palmares represented an independent economic break away from the slave laborers, and their harsh world of plantation living, “Palmares harbored perhaps as many as 20,000 to 50,000 people…Palmares represented runaway slaves success at forming a maroon state of politically integrated communities containing Africans of various ethnic groups, creoles born into slavery, and native Tupians.” (Runaways Establish Maroon Communities in the Hinterland of Brazil, Garofalo, 45). This community threw away their constraints and became able to live to on their own, and could find an identity through their work as an economic competitor to South American plantations. Their freedom from slavery turned into a competition of economic gain, “Maroons offered opportunities for trade outside of the plantation-dominated system, and they offered other runaways inspiration and sometimes refuge.” (Runaways Establish Maroon Communities in the Hinterland of Brazil, Garofalo, 46). Not only did runaway slaves establish a community to break away from their masters, this community began dipping into the economic gains of the people they escaped from. Although the people of Palmares became free from their

At least 50,000 kids attending the many residential Quranic faculties, or daaras, in Senegal are subjected to conditions similar to slavery and made to endure oftentimes extreme kinds of abuse, neglect, and exploitation by the teachers, or marabouts, who constitute as their factual guardians (“Off the Backs of the Children” 2010). By no means do all Quranic faculties run such regimes, however several marabouts force the talibés, to beg on the streets for long hours—a system that meets the International Labor Organization’s definition of a worst form of child labor—and subject them to generally brutal physical and psychological abuse. The marabouts are grossly negligent in fulfilling the children’s basic essentials, such as food, shelter, and health care, despite adequate resources in most urban daaras, brought in primarily by the children themselves.

Church-sect theory was never intended as a theory of origins. It is surprising that it had dominated the empirical literature on both established and new religious movements. The main of church-sect theory in modern social psychology has been Reinhold Niebuhr’s work on the social sources of denominationalism that are what many persons think of us as churches which is groups commonly accepted as legitimate religion organizations within their host cultures. Niebuhr work is a modification and popularization of church, sect, and mysticism that are the three types of religious organizations articulated in Troeltsch’s classical work called the social teachings of Christian churches that are church-sect-mysticism in favor of a two-part typology which are church-sect. He suggested that persons who are dissatisfied with the commonness and permissiveness of churches as they successfully appeal to the masses seek more demanding criteria for membership. Niebuhr’s modification of Troeltsch’s typology is confounded when it is recognized that Troeltsch’s three-type typology was derived from two independent dichotomies done by Max Weber. Weber had two typologies, which are church-sect and mysticism-asceticism. Troeltsch single typology was a modification to simplify and clarify his friend Weber’s dual typologies. Garret argues that a significant disjuncture separates Weber’s and Troeltsch’s typologies, when it comes to consider mysticism. Church-sect theory can contribute in organizing the

Giry argues that French Muslims have displayed true capability and willingness to assimilate, much stronger than acknowledged by elite politicians and the media. However, the problem seems to be that French Muslims efforts towards integration have not been mutually met from the French public. She states that most Muslims have adopted the French cultural norms and provides examples of studies showing that France has one of the highest rates of intermarriage between Muslim women and French men in Europe (2006, p. 93), all supporting the fact that Muslims have succeeded in integrating in various ways. However, there seems to be economic and political disparities

Some argue, as Jonathan Rauch does in his article, “Islam Has Been Hijacked…,” that since religion was brought to the forefront, in the

In this essay I am going to discuss how the experience of secularization in Egypt exemplifies the inadequacy of Peter Berger’s theory of the process of secularization. I will discuss the differences in Berger’s process and the process evident in Egypt, why Berger’s may have failed to address this. Lastly I will consider Daniel Crecelius’s approach to the question of the secularity of a country that has a secular state but a religious society.