Sacralisations of nature beyond church-based religion in modern western societies

Alienation from Religion in Church - Related Adolescents

Political Religion and Church-State Issues

In this paper we examine public attitudes on the role of religion in the American political process, as well as some public policy implications of those attitudes. Although the current American legal regime may lean toward strict separationism, the political system has seen renewed religious activism over the past three decades. Historically, religious involvement in American politics has been ...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Beyond - Reduction in Church ' s !

In this paper, we shall write ! using a notation, item notation, which enables one to make more redexes visible, and shall extend -reduction to all visible redexes. We will prove that ! written in item notation and accommodated with extended reduction, satis es all its original properties (such as Church Rosser, Subject Reduction and Strong Normalisation). The notation itself is very simple: if...

CULTURAL HISTORY OF MODERN RUSSIA Religion in Modern Russian History

The essay below, written for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History, attempts to address the role of religion in Russia over the last three centuries or so. As such, it serves as a useful introduction to at least some of the issues that we will address in this course. The article is notable for its attempt to address all of Russia’s various religions, and thus to set the issu...