He has written many scholarly articles on topics of religion, sociology, and politics and writes a weekly column for the Chicago Sun-Times, he has also been awarded numerous honorary degrees from many prestigious universities. ... For scholars of American history, religion and sociology the work provides insight into a largely overlooked issue in this country. As to his thesis Greeley's abundance of anecdotal evidence both of well documented events in American history, and of more contemporary events go a long way to persuading the reader that their certainly is a serious issue at hand ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Akhenaten's brief reign, of hardly more than sixteen years, happened at a difficult time in Egyptian history; a period in which the decline of the previously unparalleled Egyptian empire seemed inevitable. ... Effectively discarding the beliefs of an Empire, Akhenaten denounced the existing polytheist religious hierarchy and replaced it with the monotheist worship of a sole God; the Aten, or sun disk. ... Akhenaten, possibly in a move to lessen the political power of the Priests, introduced the worship of one god, the Aten, or Sun disk. ... The movement of the capital was so significant...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hinduism is a major world religion, not merely by virtue of its many followers (estimated at more than 700 million) but also because of its profound influence on many other religions during its long, unbroken history, which dates from about 1500 BC. ... Most Hindus chant the gayatri hymn to the sun at dawn, but little agreement exists as to what other prayers should be chanted. ... One of the "four goals of humanity- (along with pleasure, profit, and release), dharma represents the belief that the way things are (descriptive law), for example, the sun rises in the east, is inseparable from the...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate