... but on the contrary, it is increasingly the product of reflections of ourselves. We are responsible not only for living up our own values and beliefs but also for the beliefs and values themselves. In addition, this chapter defines culture as a complex differential valuation of life that structures the world...

...This chapter explores the separation between politics and religion and the permanence of the theologico-political. It claims that the religious survives in the guise of new beliefs and new representations, and that such beliefs can at any moment return to the surface, in either traditional or novel...

... approach to their religious beliefs and practices. They approve of exploring and practicing other religious traditions and feel entitled to adapt Jewish traditions to suit their needs. belief college students' Catholics American expression religious traditional forms faith American religious identity...

...This chapter discusses the potential application of the Critical Common-Sensism (CCS) in addressing the issue of unintentional discrimination. It suggests that CCS is uniquely suited to address social critical concerns about discriminatory beliefs that can become ingrained within one's background...

...The conclusion examines how the war created tensions within the Densmore family, and how the family strove to overcome these tensions and maintain its unity and integrity. The way the war challenged and changed the family’s racial beliefs and abolitionist ideology is examined. The conclusion...

... of “The Will to Believe” legitimately applies only to what James called “over-beliefs,” or propositions of weltanschaulich dimensions. It explains that the task of ferreting out the implications of “The Will to Believe” leads to comparing it with the other popular lectures James delivered during...

...This chapter argues that, contrary to what has been almost universally supposed, William James did not mean to affirm that humans' passional nature should intervene in the formation of their over-beliefs onlyafter their dispassionate intellects have failed to resolve the issues one...

... with other sets of problems, tasks, reasoning, and cultural location. This chapter suggests that the philosophy of religion must remain a critical discourse on the beliefs and practices of actual existing religious traditions in order to maintain its status as a determinate field of philosophical study...

... magazine institutions religious differentiation of Muslim Youth Camp MYC Qur'an American youth religious beliefs religious life secularism consumerism Man asks of religion, “What is it for?” Religion asks of man, “What are you for?” —Keiji Nishitani...

... experience of reading and writing. This chapter also examines Bloom's theological beliefs and some of his most notable works which include The Western Canon, Genius, and Where Can Wisdom Be Found? Bloom Harold ix Guinness Book of World Records Wuthering...

... hostilities? With liberalism and the Kantian conception of individual autonomy and reason on which it is based, Sigmund Freud's pathologization of groups shares the conviction that cultural beliefs are more volatile if they are “public” rather than “private” or “familial”. This chapter also probes Strauss's...

...This chapter takes up a reading of certain classic texts of British anthropology to ask how are anthropological concepts generated? Looking closely at the terms around which religious beliefs and practices are organized among the Dinka and the Nuer, as described by Lienhardt and Evans-Pritchard...

... different attributions of interest and importance, and therefore toward different over-beliefs. Principles of Psychology Pascal Blaise Pessimism Temperament Wishful thinking Baldwin J Mark Cicero James William Person Whole as involved in thinking Renouvier Charles as influence on James...