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    Marx’s and Weber’s Conceptualizations of Modernity The choice of how to define and describe ‘modernity’ has always been a contested subject. For Marshall Berman‚ the concept of modernity may be best expressed in Marx’s line “all that is solid melts into air” because modernity is seen as a “maelstrom of perpetual disintegration and renewal‚ of struggle and contradiction‚ of ambiguity and anguish” (Berman‚ 15). The progress (as in economic and scientific growth)‚ development (as in building

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    authoritative bodies depended upon the commandments of their respective holy books and prophets‚ as well as the biases with which these scriptures were interpreted. Within the periods of interest‚ both institutions had similar views about female asceticism and dress code‚ however‚ the freedom of women varied greatly in terms of their participation in warfare‚ teaching in public‚ and selecting a spouse for the first or multiple marriages. Both the Church and the Caliphate were in favor of women

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    The Path to Enlightenment Buddhism and Jainism are two religions that share similarities. They are both Atheistic religions‚ denying the existence of God. Both Jainism and Buddhism deny animal sacrifices and believe in karma‚ rebirth‚ and moksha. Despite these similarities‚ they differ in several respects. A main difference is the goal of each religion as well as the practices they use to obtain their objectives. Buddhism believes that in order to attain enlightenment one must be released from the

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    History of Asian Art 3A Banerji Vishnu and Shiva at the Norton Simon In Southeast Asia art is influenced by Hinduism and is often depicts just a few characters: primary the god’s Vishnu‚ the preserver‚ and Shiva‚ the destroyer. Although the subject matters are often of the same representation‚ at times they can be hard to distinguish from one other to the untrained eye. Despite the variances of artistic styling‚ diachronically and synchronically‚ the symbolism remains the same. Through understanding

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    Life is all about finding your way and what makes you happy with yourself‚ many people call this the pursuit of happiness. Every human being will experience this at some point in their life‚ I experienced this at the age of 15 when I lived in Washington State attending Steilacoom High School. I wanted to play basketball but my grades were not acceptable to my dad‚ so I couldn’t play until I got them up. Basketball has always been a great passion of mine since I was 7 years old‚ I kept telling my

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    Christianity as monks became the heroes of medieval Europe. They restored a dignity to human labor that the Romans and the barbarians had denied. This was only the beginning when Christianity attracted many people to join the religion. Because of their asceticism‚ the monks became the vehicles of economic and cultural change - they helped teach medieval Europe to save and invest for the future‚ as they inspired people to become a better person by following Jesus’. Monasticism indeed was great movement in

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    people that are regarded as heroic and self-less‚ and trustworthy. Celibacy is a practice of being free from all sexual activity that a person personally chooses to do. “Voluntary sacrifice of all sexual pleasure is an extreme form of religious asceticism (Sipe‚ 545).” Celibacy takes a great deal of self-control and self-mastery in order to completely achieve this goal. Sipe stated the basic elements of celibacy in his Celibacy Today article‚ stating that you must “record developmental patterns…”

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    Jessica Pellegrini Lord Shiva and Saivism There are over 330 million different deities worshipped in Hinduism. Many of which are lost to people today and many who are still thriving to be the highest they can. The three supreme gods: Vishnu‚ Brahma‚ and Shiva are still the highest of all today. Lord Shiva is the third and final of the Trimurti‚ the three supreme gods. The first was Brahma and the second Vishnu. Lord Shiva has been among the religion for centuries dated all the way back as far

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    -a------------------------------------------------ Zoroastrianism ------------------------------------------------- History Origins Zoroastrianism emerged out of a common prehistoric Indo-Iranian religious system dating back to the early 2nd millennium BCE.[9]According to Zoroastrian tradition‚ Zoroaster was a reformer who exalted the deity of Wisdom‚ Ahura Mazda‚ to the status of Supreme Being and Creator‚ while demoting various other deities and rejecting certain rituals. Farvahar. Persepolis

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    The Art of Cultivating a Phenomenological State of Mind It continues to be a renowned belief of Buddhism that upon coming to the conclusion that neither the extreme course of self-denial practiced by the ascetics nor the life of self-indulgence which he had led as a prince was the right path towards enlightenment‚ Siddhartha Gautama adopts what he refers to as the Middle Way. He then‚ having the notion that the answer to what he seeks is buried within his own consciousness‚ sits in meditation

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