THE GREAT AWAKENING With the decay of the Puritan clergy, in wake of the Salem Witch Trials, the main elements of religious zeal fell into decline. ... These preachers of The Great Awakening made Hell real and vivid, and taught of a vengeful God. The Great Awakening began in the middle colonies in the late 1730's and spread to New England and some areas in the south. ... As a result of The Great Awakening, many new beliefs arose in the eyes of the colonists. ... In conclusion, The Great Awakening was the largest religious revival in American history with tens of thousands g...

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The Great Awakening The Great Awakening was a turning point in the life of the American people. ... Although the name is not really what it sounds, the Great Awakening was not one continuous revival; rather it was several revivals in a variety of locations. The awakening altered the way people were educated by adding new universities, their identities, and also the way everyone thought of the authorities and how they began to question them. ... The Great Awakening in America during the 1730's and 1740's had tremendous results. ...

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Jonathan Edwards was a very well educated man who went to Yale during his school years. He was very concerned with defining the nature of true religious experience. He wrote a sermon called "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." In his sermon, the sinners were the wicked unbelieving Israelites. ...

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The New Age belief is that one must go through the transformation process in order to "awaken", and that the awakening of the inner self is the goal of human life. ... What makes Sahaja yoga different from other types of yoga, is the fact that it begins with self awareness (a type of inner awakening). The goal of all religions and spiritual traditions from around the world, is the inner awakening. ... When one's "divine seed" is awakening within, it means that one's spiritual DNA is changing. ...

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Walden And Its Symbolism Walden is an unmatched masterpiece. It is not its explicit use of language or vivid description of natural beauty that makes it true, but its significant research into the relation between nature and human society. I was evoked into deep thought by Thoreau's philosophy o...

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Ted Hughes' "Crow's Theology" is written as an internal dialogue going on in the mind of a crow. The poem begins with what seems to be the crow's awakening in realizing his own existence. As the poem progresses, it gradually gets darker as the questions he poses get harder and harder to answer. By...

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Johnson, Paul E. and Sean Wilentz. The Kingdom of Matthias. New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 1994. "The meeting of the Prophets Matthias and Joseph Smith was one of hundreds of strange religious events that occurred all across the United States from the 1820s through the 1840s"...

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What do you see when you think foreign religions or cults? Rituals, shaved heads, big cloaks, prayer, initiation periods, sacrifice, meditation, higher powers, power from within the mind, Pepsi maybe? Well believe it or not In the creative world of Television advertising, Pepsi is the subject of gr...

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If something cannot be smelled, seen, heard, tasted, or touched, does it really exist? Believing that intangible things, such as these, exist outside of our own consciousness is known as mysticism. For some, this word is magical and holds a pure truth behind it. For others, you would be a fool to be...

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In the world today, there are many indigenous religions that have phrases or very distinctive words, which are passed down from generation to generation and holds a specific meaning to how one should live. These phrases are incorporated directly into their teachings to show how they should be used i...

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My brothers and sisters, our society today has become corrupted by the lack of people attending church. People have started to question us and trying to present to us with liberal heathen ideas. They believe that the religion is no longer important. Our ancestors would be turning over in their graves right now if they were listening to the ideas that these people are presenting to us. We must learn to work together to let the light of God shine through! ...

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To approach any text we must first have some understanding of what it is we hope to take away from it. In approaching a religious text this understanding becomes even more muddled due to the vast complexities and differences that exist between religion and contemporary thought. To accurately approa...

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Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mi...

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