Furthermore, evidence of connections between these stimuli and religious fervor is apparent throughout history. ... Throughout history and regardless of culture, the cross has consistently held tremendous spiritual significance, having appeared in a mystical context among the "Aztecs, Mayans, American Indians, Romans, Greeks, Africans, Christians, Cro-Magnons, and Egyptians." ... Dreams have also held considerable spiritual significance since early humans developed a limbic system. ... This limbic-religious belligerence is even apparent in the history of one of the modern days" most dominant r...

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This essay will look briefly at the history of the document including articulating a clash of 'Western' and non- 'Western' ideas and a conceptualisation of 'human'. ... During the UDHR negotiating process however, non-Western views and traditions were taken into account, such as the Chinese, Marxist, Latin American and Islamic although Africa and Asia were hugely under-represented (Forsythe, 2000). ... Donnelly (2007) further premised that the idea of equal and inalienable rights being accorded due to being human (as is the basis of the UDHR) was missing not onl...

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