Essays on Priests

Book Review: The Village of Cannibals, Rage and Murder in France

Corbin, Alain. The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Introduction

Historian Alain Corbin explores the political and social significance of the killing of a young French nobleman in the remote village of Hautefaye in France. Corbin’s chronicle describes the gruesome event that happened in broad daylight involving the villagers accusing the young nobleman of shouting republican slogans that angered the villagers. What followed in the trail of events is the sparked indignation of the entire country. Rumors of cannibalism have circulated in the country and the author’s fascination of ...

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Ancient civilizations are famous for their innovations and fast technology development, specifically, when talking about the Ancient Egypt and Rome. The base line of my dissertation concerns the required innovations in the financial industry, thus in this paper I will refer to the innovative management approaches in the Ancient Egypt. However, prior to analyzing their methods and approaches it is important to take into account the fact that religion was dominant over civil authorities in the Ancient times. Therefore, most of their laws and management decisions were also based on the religious norms or dictated by the priests. “The ...

Abstract

Depression is a kind of mental disorder that can affect people’s feelings and everyday activities. It needs medical and psychological care, otherwise, it can cause such a fatal result as a suicide. Depression has its own symptoms and types that depend on different circumstances. Contemporary medical science has different methods of cure for depression that help people to overcome and even prevent it. Depression has been known from the ancient times and was considered as the demonic possession. Priests were the people responsible for it and they used exorcism as the method of the treatment. With the development ...

History: “Secular” Concept

The association of secular to the worldly notion by Protestant Reformation indicates transformational changes being experienced. The “secular” concept indicating nonreligious activities, if accepted, they are driving people away to worldly needs. The religion is at the center of the experiencing changes in the authority of faith and restoration of the destroyed faith in authority. The major concerns are directed on how layman uses these authorities subject to what ordained priests consider transformation achievement. The approach by the priests to assess the changes experienced by the laymen, it gives an indication of secular concepts and relating it to the ...

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Immigration has generated interest both in political and in research worlds. The topics have been shrouded with ambiguities considering the dynamics of security and economic constraints. America not like any other nation has culturally diverse populations that coexist harmoniously curtsey of multiculturalism initiatives by the government. The integration of immigrants into the society has slowly evolved to be a complex exercise that requires security scans and consideration of socio-economical impacts of such settlement in the country. This paper identifies two stages of immigrants’ integrations, screening, and settling. The government should not perforate ...

Sexuality

Religion has always played an important role in the life of human, society and the entire states. If we talk about Christianity, namely Catholicism, the peak of its influence was during the Middle Ages. In this period of human history, Europe was sick of the religious fever. Religion affected all aspects of society. The church was dictating its own inhumane rules, imposing certain worldview and lifestyle on people. Religion has never been indifferent to the sexuality and Catholicism especially! Catholic dogmas do not cease to astonish or even shock by its finality and severity. Of course, at the present ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams on the topic of society. This letter contains useful insights into the different view that the men have about how they saw the world. The main topic that they discussed was that of the arostoi, a word used to describe the aristocracy. Jefferson described his beliefs clearly, and showed that he felt that there are two different types of aristocracy, both of which have a place in society. Samuel Thomson was also a thinker on society and he wrote down his own views on the way that society works and the different roles ...

The differences between the Christianity and Judaism lie in the differences of understanding, evaluation and apprehension of the Old Testament and the New Testament. To understand what happens then, we must first take into account the fact that, originally, the nascent Christian movement is fully Jewish. Jesus himself is Jewish. His disciples were Jewish. And all the great figures of the first Christian generation, Jacques, Peter, and Paul, to name a few, are Jews. Thus, the Christian movement was born and began to grow within Judaism. However, that Judaism was soon through a terrible crisis, caused by the destruction ...

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Buddhism and Hinduism are 2 of the 5 religions that are most popular in the current world. Both of these religions are widely practiced and have deep roots in history. In the rating of the most popular religions, Hinduism follows Christianity and Islam and takes the 3rd place (Nandan, G. B. and Jangubhai, N. A. M., 2013). The first written documents that contain the principles of Hinduism are called Vedas. They were copied on paper in 1000 B.C., but it is evident that they appeared long before that time in an oral form. Both Buddhism and Hinduism appeared in ...

A Cathedral refers to a Christian church containing the seat of a bishop. It serves as the central church of the entire diocese, episcopate or conference. Although "cathedral" as a word is often loosely applied, those churches that have the roles of a "cathedral" that occur specifically. It is only in the denominations that have an episcopal hierarchy such as the Anglican, Roman Catholic, Orthodox as well as some Methodists and Lutheran churches that have cathedrals (Thomas, 2). Some people argue that cathedrals were designed to intentionally intimidate people, especially during the middle ages. I agree with this idea. ...

Religious change among the Aztecs

Annotated Bibliography Berdan, Frances, Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory, pp. 215-296. NY: Cambridge University Press (2014).

The source tells of the history and religion of the Aztec people.

Burkhart, Louise. “The missionary missionized.” In her The Slippery Earth: Nahua- Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, pp. 15-45. Tucson: University of Arizona Press (1989).

This source tells about the implementation of Christianity on Aztec society.

Cervantes, Fernando. “The Indian response.” In his The Devil in the New World, pp. 40- 73. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press (1994) The source reminds one that they should be looking at the paper through an objective lens, rather than proscribing any ideals onto the Aztecs or the Spaniards. Florescano, Enrique, “Transformation of indigenous memory and resurgence of ...

Religion is an integral component of human history at different stages of its development. The Muslim Reformation fundamentally different from the Catholic Reformation. “As religious regimes both, Catholicism and Islam, preceded and are likely to outlast the modern world system of nation-states” (Casanova 2). The difference lies in fact that these processes occur at different times and in various specific historical conditions. The Muslim Reformation expressed primarily in the revision (or attempt to revise) religious motivations of the various aspects of social life and only marginally affected the proper theological questions. In Islam church and clergy similar to a ...

Sumer was located in the southernmost region of ancient Mesopotamia. The location is present day Iraq and Kuwait. The place derives its name from the Akkadian language of North Mesopotamia. The inscription means the land of civilized kings. The Sumerians called themselves the black-headed people and therefore the land was land of the black-headed people in its simplest existence (Roaf, 2009). The Sumerian region was claimed to have been inhabited at first during the period 4500BCE. This has brought a point of contention as human activity had been purported to have taken place much earlier. Archaeological evidence provides these ...

The Renaissance was a period in Europe that happened between the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. Most history scholars consider it as the main point of connection between the middle age and the modern history. Renaissance started in Italy, and arrived in the other European countries in the succeeding years. The period of the Renaissance was the first step towards religious revolution, commonly referred to as Protestant Reformation (Tankard, n.p). It is probably the political circumstances of the sixteenth century that led to its success in some places and failure in others. The Renaissance period was a mark of major ...

Throughout the biblical history from Genesis to Revelation, the Bible talks about persecution/suffering and caring for the needy. The Old Testament does not emphasize it the way Jesus puts it in the New Testament. The Christian point of view of these two concepts is reflected by utilizing the examples set by Jesus, when He came to earth to save the souls of men. Jesus gave some teachings on why suffering and persecution was part of the Christian path and why it was the responsibility of Christians to care for the needy in the fulfillment of the God’s purpose ...

Social revolution refers to a complete change in the society. Civil war relates to the wars that happened within a country, between the citizens of the country. Romero is a films that depicts a social revolution that took place in the Latin America during a time when El-Salvador was facing violation of human rights. The film shows Raul Julia, acting as Oscar Romero, Richard Jordan, acting as one of Romero's best friends and other actors. In the film, Romero rises to becomes an archbishop when El Salvador was torn apart by civil wars, military force of El Salvador were ...

Introduction

The Dubliner collection is an assortment of narratives by James Joyce, which he compiled at the tender age of only twenty-three years. The collection is composed of literary, influential and revolutionary stories covering different aspects of politics, and even social matters. The Dubliners is characterized by different themes. These issues revolve around terrorizing moments experienced by characters. The themes connected to death or mortality as referred in the text, includes suffering, isolation, and disappointments. These topics take on physical, mental, political and even spiritual anguish. The authors explain that the affected individuals are to some extent responsible for what ...