The majority of rituals that take place inside the home, such as daily prayers and offerings to the kami are performed by women and mainly acted out in the kitchen (Martinez 189). ... One of these women actually ruled the country in the third century. Queen Himiko was said to receive messages from the kami, which she revealed only to her brother (who coincidentally was the only male allowed to see her) and eventually Himiko killed her brother and ruled with the prime minister. ... This being the warrior ruled time in Japan it's not hard to believe that during the Tokugawa period women...

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Throughout history, there has been an everlasting conflict between having a broader or narrower interpretation of the US Constitution. Some believe that the exact wordings stated in the Constitution are the rules to follow in a strict manner without any compromise. Others consider the Constitution t...

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My conception of religious liberty was vague when I was younger, but as I got older and I became aware of the world around me, religious liberty has been a topic that everyone has been discussing - not only privately but also in public and especially in the papers. I used to be an uninformed protestant of the Lutheran church. I once read in the newspaper that Denmark is the least religious country in the world. When I compare my own country to the U.S, I do not have to have read books or taken lessons to know that America is a highly religious country, and has been since its earliest days. Fur...

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Perhaps religion should become of the same status as the aforementioned aspects, but regardless of the majority beliefs, I personally feel it already is my own most important characteristic. ... The modes of dress and dietary rules were maintained, but they were implemented into more of a Chinese framework. ...

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CUBAN SANTERIA Santeria, which literally means, way of the saints', originated in Cuba. Santeria is considered an Afro-Cuban religion. It has roots in Africa, specifically the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria. When Africans were brought to the New World as slaves, they brought with the...

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Akbar's was an apotheosis of rule in the Indo-Pak subcontinent. ... His religious policies, however, is the subject of controversies among the historians of the Mughal rule. ... There is every indication that he began his rule as a devout, orthodox Muslim. ... Abul Fazl states that this enabled Akbar to make the wildest and most rebellious factions in the farthest places of India submit to his rule. ...

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Born and raised as a Roman Catholic, my parents tried their best to mold me not just into a kind and obedient kid but to be a girl with a strong faith in God. I remember that our apartment didn't have just one but a couple of altars. At a very young age, I was taught how to make the sign of the cros...

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