havoc if not worshipped properly. Activated only through their death‚ the carvings not only illuminate the myriad of myths that contributed to the formation of their cults‚ but they also highlight and emphasize their ability to cause destruction among the Yorubas if not properly ritualized. Thus‚
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1909. He was a theological warrior who did not draw back from the public reproof of modernists and other false teachers‚ speaking against fellow Baptists such as Harry Emerson Fosdick and against Charles Taze Russell‚ founder of the Jehovah Witness cult. He was a crusader against worldliness in the churches. Bible teacher James M. Gray called him “the greatest prophet of the Lord now standing in any pulpit in this country.” Said to be “the most influential preacher of prophetic themes in his generation
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prediction that the state of matrimony could one day be an aberration would be condemned as a piece of unreliable augury. What do we see today‚ when the demographic change of society around the globe has highlighted that the glorious era of marital domesticity is in its last days. These startling shifts in the evolution of mankind is in stark contrast if today’s society were to be juxtaposed with the society of before‚ when man used to live in extended families‚ running household corporations‚ and feeding
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and imbibes strength‚ for “it is the emblem that is sacred” (99). The distinction between the sacred and the profane is central to the Durkheim’s concept of religion. Separating the sacred from the profane is the work of the negative cult. The negative cult works to separate the sacred from the profane by prohibitions. These prohibitions can be
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For thousands upon thousands of years‚ Rome had been dominated by paganism and personal cult religions. However‚ by the end of the Empire‚ when Constantine made it legal‚ Christianity had usurped paganism and cult religions as the dominant religion. To understand the change switch in religious practices and beliefs‚ it is necessary to look back at the culture and social structure of Rome. Rome began as a small village of cattle farmers doing trade along the Tiber River. As is typical for early‚
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but also a reflection of internal power struggles within the party during the Cultural Revolution. The Red Book was written several years before it became the object of national adoration and a tool for the Cultivation of Mao ’s personality Cult. The history of the Red Book and its meteoric rise from a hand book for military recruits to compulsory reading for all Chinese citizens‚ is closely tied to its developer Lin Biao ’s rise to power. Lin Biao was born in 1907 and was fourteen years younger
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Anti-Cult Week Symposium organised by the University of Lagos on Wednesday‚ November 3‚ 1999 This Anti-Cult week marks another important step towards dealing with one of the contemporary problems facing higher education in Nigeria. The problems of the violence associated with "cultism" in higher institutions reached a climax with the cruel massacre of five students of the Obafemi Awolowo University‚ Ile-Ife in the early hours of July 10. I can say authoritatively that the trend towards cult violence
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The widely accepted definition of a sect is a religious group with characteristics‚ which distinguishes it from either a Church or a denomination. Many groups which fit this definition now prefer the less contentious title of "new religious movements"‚ because over the last fifty years‚ sects have become linked with brainwashing‚ mass suicide‚ and even a murder. One of the examples is the suicide of 900 members of the People’s temple. Sects are not a new phenomenon and they have always attracted
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willing to put the interests of society ahead of their own desires. To do this‚ he suggested‚ religion worked in two modes: the positive cult and the negative cult. The negative cult consisted of all the taboos and prohibitions of religion‚ like fasting and abstaining from sex. The purpose‚ Durkheim believed‚ was to teach self-discipline. The positive cult consisted of communal ceremonies‚ which were centered around the totem‚ and which might involve relaxing the normal taboo on eating
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of the white cloth gives more attention to the objects placed on the table. The paintings makes one assume that it is in a lower class environment because of the hook that is holding the meat in place. The reason why this conveys a lower class domesticity is because it is the farmers who sell the meat and since there are onions placed under the meat along with the pot in the background which can be suggested that they are some type of lower class person or a servant who resides in that home. His
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