Values Clarification Rationale The object of the values clarification strategy is not to teach specific values‚ but to make students aware of their own personally held values and of the way in which their values compare to those of friends‚ adults‚ different groups in society‚ and even other societies in other times. It is hoped that‚ as this awareness increases‚ students will reconsider and perhaps modify poorly founded values while‚ at the same time‚ hold more confidently values which stand the
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discrimination case is whether or not a police officer is allowed to wear a religious garment - hijaab - with her uniform‚ without inflicting a burden upon the City of Philadelphia. Facts: Kimberly Webb is a female Muslim police officer who worked for the City of Philadelphia as a police officer since the year of 1995. In the year of 2003‚ she kindly requested the Police Department in the City of Philadelphia to wear her religious garb - hijaab - with her uniform while being on duty. Unfortunately‚
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Fa’amatai: A Traditional Religious System Samoa is considered as one of the most remarkable islands in the Pacific known for its traditional system of governance which is the Matai (chief) system. This matai system is defined as the chiefly traditional indigenous form of local governance in the Samoan islands. Some believe its structure and framework is very unique. Many believe its system can be analyzed as a phenomenon that surrounds its people at all times. In this paper‚ it focuses on the framework
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------------------------------------------------- WORLD RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS – MI 412 – Spring 2013 MI 412-1‚ 2 Office: Sweeting 138 Dr. Liz Lightbody Appointments: Sign up on bulletin Phone: 4421 board outside of my office Elizabeth.lightbody@moody.edu I. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is a study of selected world religious systems for the perspective of the participants. An examination of beliefs‚ practices‚ and worldview‚ which lead to a particular religious expression‚ will be
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The most important point from the readings is that philanthropy is not and should not be thought of as affluent whites giving to poor non-whites. Each racial/ethnic group‚ and even the communities within these groups have different philanthropic practices‚ but they all make important contributions to society. One commonality that I noticed for giving practices between minority groups is their tendency to send money “back home” to family or friends who are still living in their home countries. This
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century church enforced religious unity through the inquisition‚ and was mostly successful in doing so. The author Christine Caldwell Ames1 showed that the church used the inquisition as a force to create a cohesive religious civilization during the 13th and 14th century. Further evidence of the use of the inquisition to enforce religious uniformity is found in the contemporary account of Bernard Gui‚ a Dominican inquisitor.2 The Inquisition was operated by a religious order known as the
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Beliefs‚ Morals‚ and Values Application Paper [Melisa’s Introduction] For as long as man has been around the question as to whether man is inherently good or evil has been debated. We look at the events that are happening in the world today and find ourselves asking that same question. As we study humanity‚ we discover that there are certain factors that lead to human development; biology‚ psychology and sociology. Some think that man is born evil and either continues to be evil or learns to
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Puritanism: a religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic “popery” that the Puritans claimed had been retained after the religious settlement reached early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Puritans became noted in the 17th century for a spirit of moral and religious earnestness that informed their whole way of life‚ and they sought through church reform to make their lifestyle the pattern for the whole
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Living Religious traditions are integrated meaning systems which provide adherents with comprehensive and distinctive answers to the enduring questions of human existence through Sayyid Qutb‚ Islamic bioethics and Hajj. Islam is a living religious tradition which helps adherents to answer the question of human existence through the legacy and writings of Sayyid Qutb‚ abortion‚ stem cell research and contraception of bioethics and Ihraam‚ Tawaf and Sa’y of Hajj. The paragraphs below will describe
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How were the Aztec Army‚ Aztec Religious Beliefs and Human Sacrifice linked together? The Aztec was the collective name given to seven Chichimec tribes in northern Mexico in the 12th century. They controlled the valley of Mexico and most of Central America. They ruled from their capital Tenochtitlan until the Spanish conquest in the 15th century. The Aztecs believed in many different gods and were almost constantly at war. They also practiced human sacrifice. The Aztecs worshipped many gods in
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