DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE ASSIGNMENT Q. What do you mean by the new social movements? Briefly discuss the various new social movements in India? Ans. INTRODUCTION All societies undergo changes. In some cases these may be gradual‚ i.e.‚ spread over a long period of time. In others they may be rapid. Social change‚ as we know by now‚ does not take place merely by chance or due to some factors predetermined by fate. There are several forces
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Pascal’s parents were a middle class family living a very religious life. His father was a carpenter and his mother worked at monastery cooking food. Pascual was constantly on the move because his mother always went to different monasteries because the old ones were always getting attacked. His father had died when Pascual was only 10 years old and that year he had become very religious. He would always be at monasteries with his mother praising the lord and trying to learn the most about him. He
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article “Jim Jones‚” these members belonged to a cult known as the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones‚ who was responsible for ordering the members to suicide. According to an article “Why Do People Join Cults?” by Adrian Furnham‚ Ph.D.‚ a cult is a group with “powerful and exclusive dedication and devotion to an explicit person or creed‚” with a goal to “reprogramming the way people see the world” (Furnham). In summary‚ a cult‚ as explained in “Cult Influence & Persuasion Tactics” by Kelton Rhoads
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Did you know that the play Tartuffe was written to mock the hypocrisy of the church during the mid-1600? Tartuffe was scandalous back in the day‚ and there’s a reason why. It exposes the idea of religious hypocrisy. This issue was hard to tackle back then. For this‚ the play was censored by King Louis XIV‚ probably due to the influence of the archbishop of Paris‚ Paul Philippe Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe‚ who was the King’s confessor and had been his tutor. Tartuffe‚ written by the French play
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Jake Bishop 04 September 2013 Religious/Spiritual Autobiography I guess growing up for me religion was never forced on me‚ but still encouraged. My parents urged for us to trek to service on Sunday morning regardless of anyone’s schedule that day. I once even had to miss an 8th grade basketball tournament in order to attend Sunday school. Growing up I never was a very big “church-goer”‚ but I felt like I had a good relationship with God‚ which is kind of redundant because of the whole lesson
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still to this day‚ debate about. A series of wars that occurred during the 11th and 12th centuries over opposing religions‚ known as Christianity and Islam‚ are called “The Crusades”. While individual soldiers mostly fought in the Crusades for religious reasons such as being rewarded with eternal life and granting God’s wishes‚ those in power mostly started the Crusades for political gain‚ like in the case of the Pope who desired power over Jerusalem. Long before the Crusades started‚ the Christian
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paper that conflict with Christianity are Judaism and Islam. In Judaism‚ besides cultural division within‚ most of their conflict is with modern society. In Islam‚ the Muslim community has a great political outlook that has been coupled with their religious beliefs and stereotyping has been more recently a trigger for conflict. In this paper we will discuss the contemporary issues within Christianity. We will review the historical connections and theological similarities with other religions such as
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Abortion: A Religious Issue One of the toughest issues to debate in our world today is abortion. Abortion is the induced termination of pregnancy before the fetus can survive. Nowadays‚ abortion affects all people‚ not just the mother and the baby. There are moral‚ ethical‚ health-related‚ political‚ and religious aspects that affect how people feel towards abortion. By looking at religion and its views‚ one can see just how hard it would be to argue in the pro-choice position of this debate
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The first populist movements in the United States are known as the Farmers’ Alliances‚ created mostly by Mid-westerners and Southerners‚ which sprang up throughout the 1880s. These agrarian citizens were disgruntled because of the declining agricultural prices‚ crop failures‚ and poor marketing and facilities‚ which inclined them to form local political action groups known as the Farmers’ Alliances. The economy of many farmers weakened greatly; people believed that the current money management was
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RELIGIOUS INFLUENCES ON VIETNAM I understand there to be copious amounts of influential events which triggered trends in Vietnamese culture. The Chinese influence in Vietnam may have likely led to its communist political system. Vietnamese nationalism may have contributed to the difficulties the French faced during its colonization of Vietnam. However‚ I believe that the most relevant contribution to contemporary Vietnamese culture is the religious diversity and how it contributes to Vietnam’s
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