I don't know if I understand this right or not. Honestly, I didn't get it. - Yirong I found Return to White Earth a very interesting story. I found it interesting when John Rodgers returned home and had to learn/re-learn everything about his own culture. How he was taught to strip bark and everything to survive off the land.
The third criteria is transience, meaning it is temporary and cannot be sustained, although its effects may last a long time. Lastly, the experience must be passive, it isn’t initiated by the individual but rather they have a sense that something is acting upon them. James suggests that religious experience may be seen as ‘psychological phenomena’, therefore possessing not divine quality. Ultimately, though, James does not desire to disprove the possibility of divine involvement in metaphysical occurrences. He argues that we should all be open to the possibility of religious experiences due to the similar nature of these events, despite cultural barriers.
I found this to be shocking and very interested. For the rest of the book we find out about what Cortez’s missions consisted of. We saw that coming after what he stated in the letter to CharlesV, where he said that he was going to conquer this area in the name of Spain for God so he could introduce the people of the region to Christianity. Even though his motive and methods are, dare I say, far from religious, which was a theme of the time. (p.85) What the rest of the book shaped me to understand is that Cortez was not the man sent to bring a region to new heights, but instead, the man sent to find somewhere to rule.
These situations show again the importance of unity and helping one another to make it through troubles. Steinbeck’s many allusions to the Bible reflect his personal views about religion and allow him to reinforce his theme of migrant families coming together to form a community to work together. He alludes to Biblical characters through Jim Casy
Therefore, it brings changes in characters or thought such as in attitude, behaviour, and understanding. In the above related paragraph, has shown Ant’s relationship and perception about his father before involved in the journey. And after journey, his relationship and point views has changed about his father. But here journey offer new experiences such Tony also learnt new things during journey. But before journey he hadn’t known how to react or treat his son.
After reading an article by a Native American and an article by a non-Native American, I’ve come to the personal conclusion that being Native American is almost the same as being from a native country with a different culture. The only difference is that they don’t come from another country, only a different culture. The question of understanding “otherness” is something that all people have struggled with for hundreds of years. The only way to understand “otherness” is to understand that everyone is different and we need to accept these differences. To reach these conclusions, I read the two different articles and viewed some advocacy advertisements sponsored by the American Indian College Fund.
Crabb’s concepts of the self-seeking behavior and the biblical behavior coming from one’s own will and how it affects compassion was what caught my eye and stuck with me. This will help me to determine the need for maturity or the constructs of Christianity within clients. I also related to the layering illustration of the Hawkin’s model because I am a visual
“Explaining that he would require much evidence” to be persuaded on what he believes. Another concrete example that Harris used was the one that was based off the six scientists and how they display both faith in science and religion. They were equally tolerant to religion and science and practice both ideals in their daily lives. Harris describes how
Does religion still have a place in the society? In our current society, we have the various religions that play their part in making it a conducive place for living. We have multiple religions such as Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and the list goes on. These above mentioned religions were once of equal status with the government and the society. In most circumstances the society or the government would sought the advice of their most prominent religion in matters of ethics and even the authorisation of policy making.
Durkheim on social solidarity This essay will attempt to look at Durkheim’s view of ‘Social Solidarity’. In order to look into this topic, we shall look at one of Durkheim’s most influential pieces of work, that is religion. Emille Durkheim dedicated a lot of time and effort into his writings: “The Elementary Form Of Religious Life” published in 1912. It was in this piece of writing that Durkheim conveyed the need for ‘social solidarity’ and its importance, which is still used today worldwide by many other sociologists. Emille Durkheim was as many know a functionalist and like any other functionalist he examined religion in terms of what a societies needs where.