Religion
Fisher, E. (2015). Public philology: text criticism and the sectarianization of Hinduism in early modern south India. South Asian History and Culture, 6(1), 50-69.
This study examines the sectarianism of Hindus in South India (Tamil) to explain the dramatic polarization among religious groups in Tamil Nadu over the past few centuries. The study shows that this sectarianism developed as a result of public philologists dismissing orthodoxy and religions standards in favor of their own personal form of religious meaning, style and form.
Mundey, P. (2017). Salvation with a smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church and American Christianity. Review of Religious Research, 59(1), 101-103.
This article reviews a work by Philip Luke Sinitiere which examines the smiling preacher Joel Osteen and his brand of American Protestantism. It shows how this unique style of religion appeals to Americans and how the megachurch represents a type of Manifest Destiny in the religious world of Protestant Christianity.
Park, K. (2015). Fifty Years of Reaction and Reform: American Catholicism and the Second Vatican Council. American Studies, 54(2), 33-43.
This study examines the nature and impact of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) on the Roman Catholic Church. It shows how different the Council was from others in the past and how it deviated from historical Church teachings and doctrines in numerous ways. The end result of the Council was a radical transformation of the Catholic Church, one that had serious affects on the Church throughout the world, too.
Politics
Gilens, M., & Page, B. I. (2014). Testing theories of American politics: Elites, interest groups, and average citizens. Perspectives on politics, 12(3), 564-581.
The researchers in this study perform multivariate analysis of key variables of nearly 2000 policy issues in America to find that the political system in the U.S. is best described as an oligarchy in which the interests of elite business groups are best represented in U.S. government policy while the interests of “average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence” (p. 564). Thus, while the American government may purport to have a democratic political system, the evidence of this study does not...
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Zajcev, V. A., Tat'yana, M. P., Podgornyj, V. I., Shabalina, E. I., & Potapov, V. J. (2017).
Moscow Autocracy of XVI-XVII Centuries: Eastern ‘’Despotism’’or an Early Modern European Monarchy?. Journal of History Culture and Art Research, 6(3), 1190-1198.
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Sociology: Comprehending September 11 attacks through the eyes of Emile Durkheim This research paper discusses a current event through the eyes of a social theorist. The Works Cited five sources in MLA format. Societies form individuals and social orders of different kinds produce different individuals. Hence our research paper will revolve around the following thesis statement: An individual is the product of his/her own society therefore those who take extreme measures to become what
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Education There is no subject that exists in isolation of others. This is especially true for social studies, which is inherently cross disciplinary. Social studies encompass economics, politics, sociology, history, geography, religion, and culture. Cross-curricular integration allows students to see the inter-connectedness between the Social Studies and the other subject areas in the school curriculum. The following analysis of a course on Trinidad and Tobago provides a detailed example of how
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