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You will consult the “Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050,” a report issued by the Pew Research Center, at the following URL: http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projections-2010-2050/#projected-growth-map. The report discusses the global demography and geography of the adherents of various religious traditions. It also makes projections about how this demography and geography will change in the next few decades. For the assignment, I ask that you only consult the first page of the report, not the many other pages and documents associated with it. It will require you to scroll and read to the bottom of the pages. In the first paragraph, you will summarize the report, and paraphrase, when appropriate. I am not asking you to agree with the report. I do, however, want you to summarize the reasons and arguments given by the authors of the report for their conclusions and predictions. Also provide a few specific examples from the report which you think are representative of its conclusions. In the second and any following paragraphs, you will cite and deploy examples from Strayer and lectures which help explain the report findings on the distribution of adherents of various religious traditions. You will also use examples from Strayer and lectures to analyze whether or not the report predictions are plausible
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The Arrival of Jesus Christ and the Fulfillment of God's Saving Promises (WLO 1 & 2)
Respond to the following dialogue questions:
1. What is the significance of the arrival of God’s kingdom? How do the gospels connect to the Old Testament storyline?
2. Identify how the kingdom begins with Jesus Christ. How does his death and resurrection contribute to your understanding of the fulfillment of God’s new covenant promises?
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1) What kind of person is Job?
2) What kind of conversation occurs between God and Satan? Does God's behavior here trouble you? Why or why not.
3) How does Job respond to his tragedies?
4) What does Job's friends say? How does Job respond to his friends?
5) What does Job demand from God?
6) How does God respond to Job's demands? Do you think God's response is appropriate?
7) MOST IMPORTANTLY: What is the meaning of 42:7 (“And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.”)
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Read: Esposito, Fasching, and Lewis, “Buddhism: Paths Toward Nirvana,” pp. 399-487
Discuss the following statistics based on the reading and try to answer the question (with 300 words)of why are the adherents of other faiths/non-faith in America receptive to Buddhism more than any other religion?
According to the Pew Research Survey on Religious Landscape in America conducted in 2014:
“67% of the Buddhists surveyed indicate that they were raised in a religion other than Buddhism or with no religious affiliation.”
“Among those surveyed who are married or living with a partner, Buddhists are more likely than members of most other groups to indicate that they are in a mixed-faith relationship, with fully six-in-ten Buddhists (61%) saying their spouse or partner has a religion other than Buddhism.”
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You must research the topic and provide a well-written answer to the prompt. Your thread must be between 250–300 words. You must incorporate at least 2 scholarly sources (in addition to your textbook) for your thread. You must cite your sources parenthetically in the text as needed and provide full citations at the end of each posting in current APA format.
Topic: Self-Defense/Defense of Others and the Bible
In 1987, Florida became a "shall issue" concealed carry state, which opened a floodgate of states who adopted similar laws. Currently, all 50 states allow some form of concealed carry. This has brought attention to many theories of self-defense and defense of others.
Please discuss the following: • Define the Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground laws. • Discuss the concept of self-defense as it appears in the Bible. • Can one reconcile saving his/her own life at the expense of another's life from a biblical standpoint? • Compare the Bible's teachings on self-defense and murder.
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Explain some of the steps (at least three) of the eight-fold path towards enlightenment in Buddhism and specifically how each of these can lead to a reduction of "tanha" ("burning thirst", or craving).
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Spirituality and Nursing Book Review
Instructions:
This essay invites to dig further into the discovery of spirituality and holistic nursing by finding a book that addresses this topic and that you would recommend to fellow nurses.
Write a review of the chosen book (Spirituality in Nursing: The Challenges of Complexity, Third Edition By Barbara Stevens Barnum)
• Note that it is easy to learn a lot about a book without having to read the entire book. Use the book reviews found in professional nursing journals as a model for your own review. Please do NOT look at other reviews of the book that you choose (as this will constitute plagiarism).
• Keep in mind that you are writing this review for fellow nurses, so the information needs to provide an accurate overview of the main arguments of the book, the positives as well as the weaknesses of the chosen book, as well as a discussion of the contribution this book makes to the nursing field.
Chosen Book:
Free on Google Books- Link below
Spirituality in Nursing: The Challenges of Complexity, Third Edition By Barbara Stevens Barnum
TIP: Please remember that the kind of book review required here does not resemble book reviews you may have written when you were in high school. Look at models in professional nursing journals before you start writing.
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draw a connection between the rise of the Mongols and the change in attitudes in Europe that could allow people to question the authority of an institution like the Church.
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Home Alone is a series of family comedy films directed by Chris Columbus. The first movie is primarily a coming-of-age story about an 8-year-old boy named Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin). He is the youngest of five children who is frequently tormented by his older brothers and sisters. Home Alone 2 was set one year after the first film. Kevin McCallister loses track of his father at the airport. He then mistakenly gets on a plane headed for New York City—while the rest of the McCallisters fly to Florida. The story of this young boy, his family and some bandits occur before and during Christmas time. Even though, the decline of Christianity in a country predominantly recognized as a Christian nation, Christmas time still remains as one of the main celebrations in the United States. Thus, any attempt to examine Christmas without any reference to Christian religion would lack coherence. Both films bring this coherence by portraying a white, U.S., and upper middle class family celebrating the emotional, experiential, financial, and religious elements of the Christmas festivity. As Latina/os, we are also embedded in Christmas narratives. Traditionally, we celebrate the birth of the baby Jesus with great enthusiasm, veneration, and spirituality. U.S. Latina/os recall Jesus’ birth religiously and familiarly. They invite families and friends to rejoice with Christmas rituals that include traditional music called Villancicos, and also with gifts and food. It’s also well known that the Mi Pequeño Angelito (as Home Alone was translated from English into Spanish) films are one of the favorite movie series still watched by many Latina/os in or around Christmas time. However, in the context of the United States and the contemporary commodification of faith, how do US. Latina/o community celebrate Christmas in the midst of social struggle and discrimination? How do they negotiate their traditional cultural and religious values brought here from their Latin American countries with the values presented in the films? Do they assimilate western Christian culture and religious rituals? In other words, how does the Latina/o community, especially, Evangelicals/Pentecostals read and interpret Mi Pequeño Angelito (Home Alone) film through their Hispanic Eyes?
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Answer three (3) questions in essay form. Each essay should be at least two (2) pages in length, double-spaced, 12 pt. font. The total length of the exam should be 6-8 pages. To answer these questions it is necessary that you have done the ready up to week 7 (Pals, Nigosian, Livingston, and the Bhagavad Gita). The essays should be submitted as one submission (not three separate submissions) to Turnitin assignments in Blackboard, no later than SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH, 2013.
1. E. B. Tylor and to some degree James Frazer saw primitive religion as humankind’s earliest attempt to “explain” reality, both natural and human (that is, make sense of it), very much like modern science attempts to explain the workings of the physical universe. How, for example, Hinduism and Buddhism attempt to explain reality and the human condition? Do these religious “explanations” still illuminate aspects of reality and the human condition despite the advances of the modern world, or are they as obsolete (useless and irrelevant) today, as Tylor and Frazer believed them to be?
2. Buddhism is essentially an atheistic religion. And yet it is one of the major religions in the world today. How can Buddhism be used to illustrate Durkheim’s and Geertz’s point that religion is really not about “God,” but about “us,” that is, about human society and culture. In order words, in what sense would it be true to say that religion will not go away or disappear (as the radical Enlightenment and Marx believed it should and eventually would) because it is an inalienable aspect or dimension of the human?
3. Ritual and sacrifice was found to be an essential feature of the Hindu religion, and as we saw, of Western religions like Christianity and Judaism. Why is ritual so central to a religion, and what role does it play in religion? A central part of the ritual is sacrifice, with an emphasis on the power of the blood of the sacrificed to bring about a desired transformation in or influence upon the God (or gods) to whom the sacrifice is offered. From the examples discussed in class, why does sacrifice have so much power?
4. Discuss Marx’s theses that religion is a major obstacle to the emancipation of humanity from superstition and oppression, that religion has been a major force in legitimizing and justifying the conquest of subjugation of peoples in the name of their god and religion. Is Marx’s critique of religion for the most part correct, partially correct, or too simplistic (black and white) to be right?
5. The type of religion represented by the Upanishads and Buddhism is very different from the type of religion we encountered in the Vedas and later the Bhagavad Gita (and Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). In particular their conception of the divine or absolute reality and salvation are quite different. Explain those differences.
6. The Bhagavad Gita is one of the greatest synthesis in the history of religions. Explain how the way it reconciles the different paths to salvation (Karma/Action, Jñana/Knowledge, and Bhakti/Devotion or faith in God) offered, respectively, by the Vedas (action in the world), the Upanishads (knowledge of Brahman or the Absolute), and the Gita (devotion or faith in a personal, loving and savior God who takes on human form to make his message available to us humans) represents either one of the greatest spiritual achievements, or, as Marx would say, the kind of deceptive and manipulative attempt to keep a decadent and dying religion alive for the benefit of the upper Hindu priestly and warrior classes who saw their power and influence over the masses decline and who needed to reinvent themselves and their religion to secure and prolong their power and control over the people. Defend one of these interpretations.
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Research the belief systems (Buddhism, Shintoism, and Confucianism) that were present during the Tokugawa Shogunate and discuss why you believe the shogun would have kept them in place during his rule of Japan.
A lot of controversies exist between science and faith. Faith is gained from religious teachings in the church from scriptures, while science is based on testable claims and hypotheses. In the contemporary world, the advancement in empirical aspects of science has resulted in a conflicting argument between science and religion. However, not all elements in these two fields conflict; some have been agreed upon and gets compatible. Although there are various contrasting and comparing elements, our primary concern is on genetics and mechanisms concerning DNA and species change over time and their compatibility of faith and science.
A lot of questions have been raised concerning humans and which way to follow between science and religion. This is because of the existing differences as science is different from other sources of knowledge because it relies on empirical evidence and testable explanations (De Cruz, 2017). However, science is this empirical it is essential to determine how these two disciplines are compatible with each other. Our modern society has a mixture of many cultural beliefs that are highlight conflicting; a great source of conflict starts with the scientist's philosophies, who argue that everything in the natural world can be explained and understood. On the other hand, religious beliefs hold on the existence of supernatural forces that impact and control our lives.
An excellent example of expounding on these phenomena is genetics and species changes. Biologists have a way of explaining how genetic development and mutations occur, impacting the natural phenomena, highlighting clearly the causes of DNA and species changes, and predicting future behavior, and controlling the outcomes. Through biological science, people get a greater grasp of ideas and knowledge concerning genetic mutations, which are now helpful in defining current life situations. This knowledge can be used in the definition of future. This understanding explains the reason for the existence of both gender and species in humankind and other living organisms. By the use of human intellectuals and scientific instruments, many discoveries have been achieved, which are very helpful in understanding and explaining patterns of nature.
In contrast, religion has been set to propagate certain beliefs to people. These beliefs are propagated in a way that they should never be questioned; followers of religion belief in the existence of a supernatural creator, who determines whether some actions are acceptable or not. All their; lives are based on faith; their DNA, the existence of species, is also through faith (Chang & Song, 2020). The development concerning species has also been extended even believe that there is life after death; however, this cannot be validated using scientific instruments. These are elements that can neither be measured nor observed, but they are experienced subjectively. With time, this creates conflict even with time, a group of atheists, who form part of the scientists who do not believe in religion.
Alternatively, some aspects of science and religion seem to rhyme, one being their evolution and change over time. Conflicts among scientists and various religious doctrines still stand and have a great impact on lives. Both science and religion have changed in tactics, eliminating guesswork, superstition, and supposition and avoiding forceful conviction to accept either of the two (Shtulman & Young, 2019). Although much discourse and explanation have been preferred in explain the meaning of life, DNA, and species changes, more controversies with the advanced technology still stand; the decisions whether to follow religion or science should be based on an individual’s decision and not forceful subjection.
References
Chang, V. W., & Song, G. (2020). The Origin of Species by DNA Coding: Looking For Scientific Adam & Scientific Eve. Samuel Chang.
De Cruz, H. (2017). Religion and science.
Shtulman, A., & Young, A. (2019). Why Do Logically Incompatible Beliefs Seem Psychologically Compatible?: Science, Pseudoscience, Religion, and Superstition. In What Is Scientific Knowledge? (pp. 163-178). Routledge.
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