Religion in the Philippines Main Religions in the Philippines Roman Catholic 80.9%‚ Muslim 5%‚ Evangelical 2.8%‚ Iglesia ni Kristo 2.3%‚ Aglipayan 2%‚ other Christian 4.5%‚ other 1.8%‚ unspecified 0.6%‚ none 0.1% (2000 census) The Philippines is a predominantly Christian nation on account of 300 years of Spanish rule. It is estimated that 81% of the population is Roman Catholic. In the south on the large island of Mindanao‚ many are adherents of Islam. Filipino Muslims make up about five
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Reflection of The Columbian Exchange Crosby‚ Alfred W. “ The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492.” Duke University Press‚ 2003 Before reading this book‚ when I think of the Columbian Exchange‚ a song/poem I had to memorize in elementary school about Christopher Columbus comes into my mind. “ In 1492‚ Columbus sailed the ocean blue‚ he had three ships and left from Spain‚ he sailed through sunshine‚ wind and rain” I see Christopher Columbus setting sail to find
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My holy religion is Islam and it has lots of positive effects on my day to day life. The holy religion of Islam has 5 basic pillars‚ and each of these pillars has positive effects on life. I would further explain each pillar and its effect on life. The first pillar of Islam is reading Kalema Tayeba. By reading this Kalema and believing on its words‚ Muslims admit that there is no God except Allah and prophet Mohmmad (P.B.U.H) is the last messenger of Allah. After reading this Kalema‚ Muslims admit
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According to James Brain‚ why is witchcraft feared and what does witchcraft symbolize in terms of past and present attitudes toward women? Witches represent people’s deepest fears about themselves and society & power and authority by denying sex‚ food‚ or nurture by outright disobedience. What does the anthropological category witchcraft refer to‚ and how did the word ‘witchcraft’ gain its negative image? The denigration of the body & it gain it’s negative image simply b/c of “witches” believed
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As the decades went on and slaves were turned away from their “pagan” religions and towards Christianity they incorporated spirituals into the Christian faith. In spite of being in bonage‚ slaves managed to put double meanings in their new Christian songs. For instance Go Down Moses is a folk song about how God tells Moses to
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Christians are mostly against euthanasia. The arguments are usually based on the beliefs that life is given by God‚ and that human beings are made in God’s image. Some churches also emphasise the importance of not interfering with the natural process of death. They believe that life is a gift of God • all life is God-given • birth and death are part of the life processes which God has created‚ so we should respect them • therefore no human being has the authority to take the life of any innocent
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Faith No one ever lives a perfect life. The world is full of tragedy and sorrow‚ but in the midst of it all‚ there is faith‚ family‚ friends‚ and the dreams that one day life might be perfect. In Yann Martel’s novel‚ Life of Pi‚ Piscine Patel is the lone human survivor of a shipwreck. He endured living in cramped quarters with a live tiger for over two-hundred days. While it might seem like almost an impossible feat‚ the one thing that Pi had that many people didn’t is faith. Faith in god and friendship
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Chapter One: • Human geographers study people and places. The field of human geography focuses on how people make places and how we organize space & society. How we make sense of others and ourselves in our locality‚ religion & world. • Advances in communication & transportation… technologies are making places and people more interconnected. Today we can cross the globe in record time‚ with easy access to automobiles‚ airplanes‚ and ships. • Globalization is a set of processes that
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Suzette Breitberg Assignment #3 REFLECTION ON WALDEN—SOLITUDE “I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree‚ whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which‚ owing to bodily weakness‚ his diseased imagination surrounded him‚ and which he believed to be real. So also‚ owing to bodily and mental health and strength‚ we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society‚ and come to know that we are never
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PTLLS )(6302) REFLECTING LEARNING JOURNAL UNIT 001 The purpose of this essay is to reflect upon an aspect on my role and responsabilities as a teacher in lifelong learning ‚responsability for maintaining a safe and supportive learning environment (PTLLS 6302/L&D Academy /Barchester/page 4 }For the purpose of reflection the essay shall be written in the first person.I decided to use John’s( 1995) model of reflection . Description of experience I participated to PTLLS course unit 001 in September
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