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- 181: Santeria
- ... a cult. Rather, it is a religion like any other. Many people often forget that it was a ritual practice in most religions to sacrifice animals to God, even in religions prevalent today, such as Catholicism and Judaism. Many goats were once sacrificed in the name of the Lord and at one time, He even called for the sacrifice of a human to see how devout one of his followers truly ...
- 182: Marriage Is A Sacrament
- ... whiterobedmonks.org/marriage.html. White Robed Monks of St. Benedict. http://www.whiterobedmonks.org/marr2.html. White Robed Monks of St. Benedict. Martimort, AG, (ed), The Church at Prayer. Liturgical Press: Minnesota, 1992. McBrien, Richard, Catholicism: Completely Revised and Updated. Collins Dove: North Blackburn, Vic, 1994. Pennock, Michael, The Sacrament and You. Ave Maria Press: Notre Dame, Indiana, 1981. “Sacrament of Marriage”. Encyclopedia Britannica CD-ROM, 1994. “Vatican Councils”. Compton’s ...
- 183: Comparative Analysis Between P
- ... as well but the Dominican Republic s is slightly higher. Culturally they share similar backgrounds. Both countries have Black and Hispanic origins and the official language spoken in each is Spanish. They also share Roman Catholicism as their dominant religion. There are vast differences in each country s economy. Puerto Rico has one of the best economies in the Caribbean; being the only island in the region where its industrial sector ...
- 184: Political Economy Of The Ancient India
- ... The first is the mixed population of Luso-Indians, or Goanese, along the western coast of India and in Sri Lanka and with them, a lingua franca in the ports and markets. Then came Roman Catholicism, which today has some 12 million followers and an array of churches, convents, and colleges all over India. More tangible traces include imported articles such as tobacco, potatoes, pineapples, tomatoes, papayas, cashew nuts, and two ...
- 185: Emile Durkheim & Anomie Or Strain Theory
- ... areas, consistent with the theory. For example, she says “while Judaism’s protective effect is small overall, it is large in the Northeast and reversed in the South. The protective strength also is reverse for Catholicism in the South and many evangelical Protestant groups in the Northeast” (Pescosolido, 1990: 337 & 353). Pescosolido (1990) says that “Overall, the results suggest that region exerts a greater impact on religious affiliation effects than does ...
- 186: Exploration - Motives For
- ... sought to serve God by converting the natives to Christianity. By 1634, the area of present-day Florida and Georgia was home to 30 Spanish missionaries, 44 missionary stations, and 30,000 Indian converts to Catholicism. Within a few decades, Spanish explorers became familiar with the northern coast of South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic shore of North America, the Isthmus of Panama, the Gulf of Mexico and conclusively- the ...
- 187: New Orleans - Before The Civil War
- ... market, but it always remained a strange place in the American South. American newcomers from the South as well as the North recoiled when they encountered the prevailing French language of the city, its dominant Catholicism, its bawdy sensual delights, or its proud free black and slave inhabitants; In short, its deeply rooted Creole population and their peculiar traditions. Rapid influxes of non-southern population compounded the peculiarity of its Creole ...
- 188: Pre-Civil War New Orleans
- ... market, but it always remained a strange place in the American South. American newcomers from the South as well as the North recoiled when they encountered the prevailing French language of the city, its dominant Catholicism, its bawdy sensual delights, or its proud free black and slave inhabitants; In short, its deeply rooted Creole population and their peculiar traditions. Rapid influxes of non-southern population compounded the peculiarity of its Creole ...
- 189: A Consise History Of Germany
- ... 1300s The Hanseatic League was the supreme commercial and military power in northern Germany. 1517 Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation. 1555 The Peace of Augsburg recognized the right of princes to choose Lutheranism or Catholicism for their lands. 1648 The Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War. 1740 Frederick the Great became king of Prussia and began building Prussia into a great power. 1806 The Holy Roman Empire came ...
- 190: Christianity In The New World
- ... the native population. These monasteries built were of enormous size and decorated ostentatiously. The monasteries included pomp and circumstance in their ceremonies. The reason claimed for doing this was to keep the Indians interested in Catholicism and away from their native religions. "On February 8, 1537, Zumarraga wrote the Council of the Indies that beautiful churches helped in the conversion of the Indians and strengthened their devotion. Twenty years later, on ...
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