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...THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn H... .... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors are grateful for permission to use material from the following: Joseph Epes Brown (ed.), The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s ... ...in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. The quotation from this paper that appears in the text is reprinted with kind permission ... ...erners were well acquainted with the existence of Judaism, though very few Christians had much conception of why and how Judaism continued to exist tw... ...tern religious writers was to divide the world’s religions into two camps: Christians and Jews on the one hand, and “pagans” or “heathens” on the othe... ...organized, and much else. Small groups such as the Old Order Amish, in the eastern United States, are striking examples of Christian traditions which ... ...emergence and development of Christianity. 17 Within a very few centuries, eastern Christianity—in both an ideological, and to some degree organizatio... ...d Eastern parts took place. Eastern Chris- tianity came to consist of the “Orthodox Churches,” a name still in use. Western Christianity was centered ... ...e its administrative and theological centers are in Rome. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches together account for about two thirds of Christians at pr...

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.............................................................. 3 RECOGNIZING THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS ......................................................... ...CTION ................................................................ 38 THE HINDU RELIGION AND POPULATION CONTROL .................................... ... Arriving in Indus It was not far from Singaling to Indus. Just a five hour flight on Singapore Airlines, st... ... the Southeast Asian part of the world--but what a universe of difference. From one of the three most advanced countries on the planet to a Third Wor... ...ion likely to work is to pay people to not reproduce. ―I know that Eastern Europe is reducing its population. Even the Catholic countries, li... ... expect a population drop of 13% in Hungary by 2060, and a drop of 18% in Eastern Europe by that time. And of course the number of people over 65 wi... ... The Koran and its commentators speak of good and bad jinns. The Jews and Christians have their witches. 45 We can point to Deuteronomy 18:10 ‗T... ...rmed in heaven, why wouldn‘t God accept the truth of a proposition if two Christians today agreed to it? Was Jesus only talking about those in his a... ...the same religion. Both the Sunnis and the Shia claim the real truth. The orthodox Jew upholds the true religion, the Reformed Jews are really misgu...

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...assics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ...ile complete knowledge with devoted piety; here was a modern Augustine who united the glories of doctor and saint. The sanctity seemed no less clearly... ...he woods and fields. Though he had never regarded himself as other than an orthodox Christian, and would argue on prevenient grace if the subject were... ...n silence towards the house, and as they entered by the glass door on this eastern side, Dorothea withdrew her arm and lingered on the matting, that s... ...ful to marry again, I suppose; else we might as well be Hindoos instead of Christians. Of course if a woman accepts the wrong man, she must take the c... ...g at six guineas—it is an insult to religion, ladies; it touches us all as Christians, gentlemen, that a subject like this should go at such a low fig...