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    Possibilities and challenges of interreligious and secular dialogue in today’s world. According to Zago, globalization was imminent and interreligious contact unavoidable, leading to religious pluralism. The tendency was increasing and creating challenge to mission, which would create not only meetings but also clashes among various religions. He anticipates the need of attitudes and initiatives for interreligious dialogue, but this “Dialogue, however, must not eliminate proclamation that remains

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    Analytic Thinking, Religion, and Prejudice

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    and analytic thinking are complex and intransigently debated topic in the both social psychology and cognitive science literature for a decade. Moreover, the idea that religions facilitate acts that cause the negative attitudes toward especially religious out-groups has relatively a long theoretical and empirical history in social psychology (Allport & Ross, 1967; Altemeyer & Hunsberger, 1992; Spilka, 1986; Whitley & Bernard,1999) and is the main idea behind the evolutionary origins of religion (Atran

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    years gone by after the settlers came to the New World. Settlers came to the New World in search of many things. They came in search of gold, they came for new lives, and they came for religious freedom. In England, during this time period, people were being judged, separated and persecuted on the basis of their religious beliefs. There were two groups of people that were unhappy with the Church. These groups came to be known as the Puritans and the Separatists.

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    Religious oppression, persecution… The noun is related to persecute which comes from Latin persecute meaning “followed with hostility” persecution means hassling or singling out a person, or group, because of race, religion, or sexual orientation, gender, or social status to persecute. Religious persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs or affiliations or lack thereof. When I picked my topic, I chose to pick religious

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    advantage of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution that states that we have the right to practice any religion we desire. It is a civil right many people do not appreciate nearly enough. We do not realize that people in other countries do not have this privilege. In other countries, innocent people are being persecuted, killed, and tortured because of their religion and their religious practices. The most notable is the genocide of Jews during World War II. Many Jews were killed by

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    Matthew Blake Kimberly Taft History 131 24 July 2015 Religion in the American Colonies: How They Shaped Societies and Politics. The main reason so many immigrants fled from Europe was to free themselves from religious persecution. They were being forced to either believe a certain way or pay for a specific religion to be in their country, they were not allowed to believe or practice their beliefs openly without detriment of some sort. The New World was new and had endless possibility and opportunity

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    There exists a vast number of religions in the world that have their own belief systems and populations of followers that, naturally, gives result to a wide variety of religious diversity. Logically, the problem with this religious diversity is that it is hard to see how they could all be true at any rate. In response to this problem, two solutions have been proposed: pluralism and exclusivism. Pluralism makes a claim that all of the religions are true in their own way where exclusivism, on the other

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    come? Are all of them being treated fairly and equally? We know that there is no absolutely freedom in any places of the world. Back to the Mandela quote which I truly agree, everybody is born with the right of being treated fairly and equally in spite of their race, skin colors and gender. And the right to be free is the foundation of everything. Anybody should be able to choose the life they want, the stuff they feel like doing and live in a life that is free of judgement. So the purpose of this essay

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    provided the safety needed to practice religion in such a way that is against the beliefs of most other countries. The birth of the nation offered religious tolerance, and colonies were created around their own idealistic religious beliefs. But with all good things comes a struggle to get there, and

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    students in Australia have different culture, different religious beliefs and different language. Most sensitive dimension of diversity in schools is different religious beliefs of the students. Equity in schools cannot be achieved by ignoring the different religious beliefs of its students. To claim equity in schools it is necessary to eradicate the social injustice issues with the students having different religious beliefs. Talking about religious diversity in a classroom, here is an example. Upon

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