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    While some civilizations are defined by their religion, ancient Egyptian religion was defined by the civilization. The people of ancient Egypt (3500-30 BCE) were greatly influenced by the cyclical nature of their environment and the Nile River, causing their society to be immensely uniform in their ways. This uniformity is reflected in Egyptian theology and overall culture; the Egyptian polytheistic gods and their existence in daily life rarely, if ever, changed and never drastically. However, for

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    Sometimes the question about spirituality, and why people believe in it swarms around the minds of today’s society. It never occurred to me about the importance of why people believed in religion or superstition until I entered high school. Growing up Catholic, it felt like a routine to attend mass every Friday and Sunday because that was what everyone I knew did. I was never that interested in any belief of God, let alone any interest in superstition. I always thought that my religious beliefs

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    Throughout history, anthropologists have explored religion in great depth and have explained in various ways how they believe religion should be thought of ethologically. In lecture, when asked what comes to mind when I think of religion, I thought of my church, and the traditions that my family and I have been doing for my entire life. The way of thinking about religion described in the passage Religion: Ritual and Belief by authors Robert L. Welsch and Luis A. Vivanco is shaped by an accumulation

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    two. At nearly 3 centuries old, The Odyssey’s teachings of respect for the higher powers of the world and religion, the dangers of arrogance, and the importance of loyalty, are still applicable to this day The Odyssey delivers a clear lesson on respecting religion and higher power. Sacrificing esteemed ram and worshipping to human-designed gods may no longer be a common custom but religion and faith remains an essential practice of the modern man . The differences between The Odyssey’s lessons on

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    The United States of America has drastically grown in diversity of religion, culture and ethnicity over time. Religion is a part of many lives in the U.S. due to the wide variety of Christians, Muslims, Jews and many other religious groups, not to mention non-religious individuals. There has been much debate on whether the United States has been doing the right thing by keeping church and state separate rather than keeping them entwined as had been the standard for years prior to the country’s founding

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    Popular religion over time has become very common, especially with how much our society focuses on treating ordinary things as if they are religiously significant to our life. According to Robert Ellwood, “Popular religion can be considered a sector—and a very important sector of popular culture. Two forms of popular religion present themselves: the mainstream religion it is understood and practiced on the popular level, and religious meaning embedded in ostensibly nonreligious popular culture, such

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    2.2. Research Analysis Religion and Bangladesh have always closely connected with each other. Religion has become one of the key identities of this country. People of different religion live here together without any disputes. However importance of religion in this country is more to say. Though it follows a secular constitution, religion is given more priority than anything else. Other side as a democratic republican state political parties have always influence over government in terms of political

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    Throughout the history of the world, there have been three underlying motives: Politics, economics, and religion. These factors continue to play an important role in the modern world, religion in particular. Religion often unites individuals of every race, nationality, and ethnicity in a way politics nor economics can imitate. The contemporary importance of religion lies in its strong development of community. Community takes place in Islam in the form of the ummah. The ummah is “a worldwide Muslim

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    and religion. Conversations about death or healing due to disease revolves around religion. It is widely used as a coping mechanism for those impacted by death and disease. From worshiping a god or goddess that controls disease to conducting healing ceremonies, to even just praying to be cured of the disease, religious practices are evident when a disease is involved. Analyzing Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron gives us an idea of how life was at the time of the plague along with how religion influenced

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    Religion, as defined by Dr. Mike Sosteric, “is a social institution set up to fill our need to know by answering the big questions of our existence.” This explanation proves to be penetrative, insightful, and valuable in providing a sense of understanding not only what religion is, but also why it is so significant to our society. It is useful in provoking thought and providing a basic level of discernment regarding religion from both a sociologic perspective and that of merely, an average human

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