concerning the religious practices of conquered people. What were the advantages of this policy for the Ottomans? Explain. After the sultan Mehmet the second captured the city of Constantinople‚ he wanted to ensure that he had the support of the Christian religious leaders. More specifically‚ he wanted to make sure that the Greek Orthodox Church would remain separated and not combine with the Roman Catholic Church. The sultan therefore established the millet system of government where the religious leaders
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The American colonies differed greatly from one another. Although they were in the same region of the land‚ some had better farming than that of others and some had better trade routes than the other colonies. No two colonies had the same agricultural needs. Georgia’s agriculture is different from Rhode Island. They also differed by the use and need of slavery. Slaves are needed more in agricultural areas than trade areas. That doesn’t mean that the northern colonies did not have slaves; it just
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Religious Studies Research the work on a religious organisation- Who are they? Mission aviation fellowship‚ they are a Christian organisation operating more than 130 aircrafts in around 25 countries in the developing world. They fly across hostile environments and reach the world’s most isolated people. Which religion? Christianity. Some of the things they do? They share the love of God to unfortunate people. They seek to promote the growth of church! They support the work of many visiting
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This class is all about interfaith discussions and how to engage them in our lives. For this class we had two major assignments. The first one was to go to a different person’s religious service and reflect on it. The second one was to spend an entire day in a different religion. In this paper I will discuss the two and relate them back to the books‚ movies‚ and speakers that played a role in our class. For the first assignment I went to a reformed Jewish temple called Temple B’nai Israel is was
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as religious‚ instead opting for the term “spiritual”. This shift is most apparent in the United States‚ as mass attendance decreases‚ and society places more reliance on science and technology rather than religion. Sandra Schneiders’ essay discussing the definitions of spirituality and religion and the link between the two sheds light on how much of contemporary culture identifies themselves. While Schneider firmly believes that the two work in tandem‚ and one cannot be had without the other‚ the
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There are a couple of critical issues when it comes to the study of what a religious tradition says. The first is to make a distinction between the oral tradition and the written tradition. Many well-developed‚ world religions have an established canon of sacred texts‚ as well as an oral tradition. In some cases‚ this also has come to be written down. For instance‚ in Judaism‚ there is the tradition of the Oral Torah and the written Torah. The written Torah has become the Tanakh or the Hebrew
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Andromeda is the name of my country and it is located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean‚ far from anywhere else. The citizens have been fighting for what religion should be predominant in the country. I have chosen that they have religious freedom. Everyone can be free and not fight over a religion anymore. No one will be unhappy with a religion forced onto them‚ and there are so many religions to follow. People won’t have to fight‚ because some people might want to follow Judaism‚ and y usually
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Arguments from religious experience are never convincing. When people say that they have experienced God or the divine in some way; they are not saying that it ‘seemed like’ God but was something else. The issue for many philosophers is: are religious experiences veridical? By this is meant can we actually demonstrate that the religious experiences of people are what they seem to be‚ i.e. experiences of God‚ rather than delusions‚ products of the mind or of some other source such as LSD? Can
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unsure why millions of people have been displaced from their homes. The answer is a religious conflict that has been developing in Sudan for hundreds of years. The root causes of religious conflict in Sudan between the Muslim North and Christian South stem from primarily political sources‚ including historical favoritism to northern Sudanese areas‚ unequal political representation‚ and governmental oppression and marginalization of certain religious groups. For thousands of years‚ these causes have created
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“Education should remain separate from religion” Public Funding of Religious schools Everybody likes to go their own way‚ to choose their own time and manner of devotion. Canadians have many beliefs and values that vary indifferently from person to person. We try to fit the needs and values of many in the Canadian law system‚ known as multi-cultural. We have two main languages and many people of all different ethnicities. With different ethnicities‚ come different
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