forty whom she has never seen before and being forced to produce children until her body is physically unable to perform a safe pregnancy. Imagine the girl being brainwashed and beaten for contradicting with a belief held by another man and forced to stay in her community for her entire life without knowing anything of the outside world. This scary world exists not just in imagination‚ but in the form of marriage known as polygamy. Found in almost every country‚ including the United States‚ the
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Lewis on Suffering and Pain in the Christian Life Submitted to Dr. John A. McGinn‚ in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of the course SEMI 500-B02 LUO Introduction to Seminary Studies by José C. Caballero September 14‚ 2014 Contents Introduction 1 Pain as an objection to creation 2 Pain as a result of freewill 3 God’s omnipotence 4 Pain is necessary in the lives of Christians 5 Pain promotes spiritual growth 6 C.S Lewis’ experiences with pain 7 The will
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World Encyclopedia‚ polygamy is the practice of marriage to multiple spouses at the same time. There are three form of polygamy: polygyny‚ polyandry and group marriages. Polygyny is described as when a man has multiple wives. Polyandry‚ on the other hand‚ is when a woman has multiple husbands. Whereas‚ group marriage is more than one man and more than one woman form a family unit. Out of these three forms of polygamy‚ polygyny and polyandry are more prevalent. Polygamy can be traced as far
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circumstances polygamy can work. Unfortunately a majority of the time a polygamist relationship has to many issues to be considered a healthy relationship . Polygamy is the condition or practice of having more than one spouse at a time‚ also known as plural marriage. Polygamy has been practiced through out history in different cultures and religions which include‚ the Mormons and Muslims. Even the current President of South Africa‚ Jacob Zuma‚ is a polygamist who has at least eighteen children from four
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In our society monogamous relationships are what we find common. But in other cultures or societies they believe differently. For example: Polygamy. Polygamy refers to a type of marriage where there is going to be more than one spouse‚ but most of the time this is going to mean more than one wife (University of Montreal). These two types of marriages are the typical heterosexual marriage arrangements that exist in the world today. For most people in other countries a monogamous marriage is the norm
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PROBLEM STATEMENT Polygamy has been an important issue these days. Generally‚ men tend to take the concept of polygamy as a way to have many wives. Furthermore‚ polygamy is applied with or without the first wife‘s consent. Polygamy also being practiced even though the husband is not capable and cannot be fair. So‚ the reason we conduct this research is to study people’s knowledge regarding polygamy in this era and whether it is proper to practice polygamy or not. We would also like to gain their
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Polygamy is a Greek word that means the practice of multiple marriages. Polygamy was considered to fulfill men’s desires on the grounds of strong cultural considerations. Nowadays‚ Polygamy is considered in Islamic countries and some rural areas around the word. However‚ it was difficult to provide statistics on the issue of polygamy because of the lack of communication. The man can marry up to four wives. Each wife constitutes a separate household with the husband visiting his wives in turn. Human
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University of London. The second author is grateful to the financial support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Award No. 410-87-0704). We are also thankful to the helpful comments of the three referees. FACTORS ON POLYGAMY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: FINDINGS BASED ON THE DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEYS YASUKO HAYASE KAO-LEE LIAW I. INTRODUCTION OLYGAMY in sub-Saharan Africa is not only a type of marriage but also a value system. Its prevalence as a type of marriage
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has banned polygamy‚ of all natures‚ because of the anti-mormon movement in the 1880’s‚ contradicting the 1st amendment and criminalizing private‚ consensual acts of adults who follow and
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respect to the translations. Polygamy a Burning Issue The debate surrounding the issue polygamy is highly fervent‚ impassioned and ideologically charged. Sarcastically‚ it might be said‚ ‘If marriage to a woman civilizes a man it follows that the more women a man marries‚ the more civilized he becomes.’ This is the world of polygamy. Polygamy explores abundant debates concerning the practice of plural matrimonial‚ including
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