CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) Michael Lesley crisscrossed Harvard Yard, looking up from his copy of David Hume's "The Natural History of Religion" only to avoid the tourists that shuffled through the snow-covered quadrangle.
It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.
With its high octane blend of politics and religion as potent as any of history's grand ideas.
Mr Copson also said that the poll showed that people in Britain primarily viewed Christianity as a matter of history and cultural heritage rather than as a matter of religion.
She sees it as a way to assist her study of religion and history.
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The hostility springs from a potent mix of religion, history and territory.
The organization was constructed from rotten intellectual bits and pieces false readings of religion and history cleverly and deviously fitted together to give the appearance of reason.
The worst-case scenario would be a war of religion, and history proves that such wars can't be won.
Her general theme is that Ulster's Catholics and Protestants have shaped each other's character and political history, and even the nature of their religion: church attendance was always an obsession of each denomination.
Mostly it was about ideas drawn from history, politics, religion and, most of all, literature.
The depths of evil on a world that has no religion at all may sicken you beyond anything conceived in the history of earths inhabitants.
By an accident of colonial history, they were separated from Malaysia, with which they share language and religion, and ended up part of Thailand, with its Thai-speaking, Buddhist majority.
These arguments are old and abiding ones, as Peter Bowler reminds us in his history of earlier attempts to reconcile modern science and contemporary religion.
Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.
Historians and social scientists have found quite a lot to say about why faith thrives in some places and periods but not in others why, for the first time in human history, there are now hundreds of millions of unbelievers, and why religion is little more than vestigial in countries like Denmark and Sweden.
"They are very innovative and tied to reality, " says Elio Masferrer, an anthropologist and expert on religion at Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.
This is perhaps the first time in the history of Islam that Muslims finally have access to the truth about their own religion, thanks to the Internet and satellite dishes (invented by infidels).
The legislative history of IRC 107 is rather explicit that those legislating the allowance intended to advance religion.
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But as perplexing, unique, and even discomfiting as it may be, the Jew is a member of both the Jewish people and the Jewish religion, and this has been so since the beginning of Jewish history.
But in terms of the spread of commerce, culture, religion and empire, Asia's is a largely maritime history, carried on the monsoon winds.
Nation-building reflects the triumph of hope over experience, the belief that the Pentagon can overcome significant differences in history, tradition, religion, ethnicity, and more to remake other societies.
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But it's a heck of a read for those of us who still believe that history should recount the great events and great people in politics, economics, religion and secular thought.
He also wrote extensively about almost everything else: history, diplomacy, French literature, German literature (in this case, on the lack of it), religion, philosophy and the practical arts of government (in which he himself excelled).
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