Because anthropology developed from so many different enterprises ( see History of Anthropology ), including but not limited to fossil-hunting, exploring, documentary film-making, paleontology, primatology, antiquity dealings and curatorship, philology, etymology, genetics, regional analysis, ethnology, history, philosophy, and religious studies, it is difficult to characterize the entire field in a brief article, although attempts to write histories of the entire field have been made.

Around 190 AD under the leadership of the scholar Pantanaeus, the school of Alexandria became an important institution of religious learning, where students were taught by scholars such as Athenagoras, Clement, Didymus, and the native Egyptian Origen, who was considered the father of theology and who was also active in the field of commentary and comparative Biblical studies.

The state of the Jews of what would later become southern Russia created a favorable field for mystical movements and religious sectarianism, which spread in the area from the middle of the 18th to the middle of the 19th century.

Sultan Murad's internal organs were buried in Kosovo field and remains to this day on a corner of the battlefield in a location called Meshed-i Hudavendigar which has gained a religious significance by the Muslims ( which had been renamed Obilić by the Serbs ).

Increasingly, scholarly writers prefer the term " contemporary paganism " to cover all new polytheistic religious movements, a usage favoured by The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, the leading peer-reviewed journal in the field.

They are held to isolate them from combatants still in the field, to release and repatriate them in an orderly manner after hostilities, to demonstrate military victory, to punish them, to prosecute them for war crimes, to exploit them for their labor, to recruit or even conscript them as their own combatants, to collect military and political intelligence from them, and to indoctrinate them in new political or religious beliefs.

While Jews have not used the LXX in worship or religious study since the 2nd century CE, recent scholarship has brought renewed interest in it in the field of Judaic Studies.

In 1997, Amor concluded, " it appears that the situation of the Sikhs in the religious field is satisfactory, but that difficulties are arising in the political ( foreign interference, terrorism, etc.

Tertullian's writings cover the whole theological field of the time — apologetics against paganism and Judaism, polemics, polity, discipline, and morals, or the whole reorganization of human life on a Christian basis ; they gave a picture of the religious life and thought of the time which is of the greatest interest to the church historian.

Situated in the field of theology and religious studies, it is seen as a complementary and relational field to that of theology.

They were both patrons of the arts, but in the religious field they proved unable to stem the advance of Martin Luther's ideas.

* The totality of codified language ( vocabulary ) used in a given field of intellectual enquiry and of social practice, such as legal discourse, medical discourse, religious discourse, et cetera.

Two of these games, one called Areyto, which included religious ceremonies, as well as another game similar to soccer, were played in the batéy ( an arena-like field flanked by huge standing stones depicting images of the Taino religion ).

In the field of religious studies more generally, Mack is known for popularizing the term " Social Formation ," originally coming from the work of Louis Althusser, as a descriptive category for religion.

The field of medicine was just beginning and it was thought that the sulfur waters together with a strong religious revival could restore many to active and useful lives.

Founded in 1934 by Herbert W. Armstrong as a religious broadcasting radio ministry named Radio Church of God, the Worldwide Church of God had a significant, and often controversial, influence on 20th century religious broadcasting and publishing in the United States and Europe, especially in the field of interpreting biblical end-time prophecies.

There may be religious objections to family's next of kin having their loved ones dissolved, flushed to a sewer treatment plant, and applied to a farm field in the form of sludge.

As confirmed by latest research in the field of archeology and Astronomy, Vedas were older than 2600 BC which takes it far earlier than all other religious texts.

His inaugural address on The Principle of Protestantism, delivered in German at Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1844, and published in German with an English version by John Williamson Nevin was a pioneer work in English in the field of symbolics ( that is, the authoritative ecclesiastical formulations of religious doctrines in creeds or confessions ).

A chaplain provides pastoral ( spiritual ) and emotional support for service personnel, including the conduct of religious services at sea or in the field.

The field of bioethics has addressed a broad swath of human inquiry, ranging from debates over the boundaries of life ( e. g. abortion, euthanasia ), surrogacy, the allocation of scarce health care resources ( e. g. organ donation, health care rationing ) to the right to refuse medical care for religious or cultural reasons.

Spock's subsequent writings on child rearing incorporated some of Mead's own practices and beliefs acquired from her ethnological field observations which she shared with him ; in particular, breastfeeding on the baby's demand rather than a schedule.

Numerology had not found favor with the Christian authority of the day and was assigned to the field of unapproved beliefs along with astrology and other forms of divination and " magic ".

Luten has said that although the book is often seen as a seminal work in the field, the Population Bomb is actually best understood as " climaxing and in a sense terminating the debate of the 1950s and 1960s .” Ehrlich has said that he traced his own Malthusian beliefs to a lecture he heard Vogt give when he was attending university in the early 1950s.

As such, he really is a pioneer in his field – both for his new methods and for the fact that he went against the grain of the beliefs of the time ( Shell shock was not considered a " real " illness and " cures " mainly involved electric shock, with doctors such as Lewis Yealland particularly keen on this form of " treatment ").

In the field of Social Psychology, prejudice studies like the “ Who Likes Competent Women ” study led the way for gender-based research on prejudice This resulted in two broad themes or focuses in the field: the first being a focus on attitudes toward gender equality, and the second focusing on people ’ s beliefs about men and women Today studies based on sexism continue in the field of psychology as researchers try to understand how people ’ s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence and are influenced by others.

These objections highlight the difference between philosophy ( which generally recommends that one has true beliefs, even if such beliefs have negative of unpleasant consequences ), and psychology, which believes in human " wellness " or " functioning " as the field conceives it.

It is often said of this school of thought ( which dominated the field of psychology, at least in the Anglo-American world, for much of the twentieth century ) that it denied the existence of mental states such as beliefs, although at least in Skinner's original version it merely denied the theoretical utility ( or necessity ) of postulating such states in order to explain behavior.

Novak's experience covering the Six-Day War in the field influenced his beliefs towards Evans ' pro-Palestinian sympathies.

Various List of symbols # Religious, esoteric, metaphysical and mystical symbols | religious symbols Religious studies is the academic field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religious beliefs, behaviors, and institutions.

He had a particular interest in applying his philosophical beliefs to the field of medical research.

Although a crank's beliefs seem ridiculous to experts in the field, cranks are sometimes very successful in convincing non-experts of their views.

* Religious studies, an academic field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religious beliefs, behaviors, and institutions

Their religious beliefs extended to the field where they adhered to strict ethical codes.

The concept of logic generally refers to broader cultural beliefs and rules that structure cognition and guide decision-making in a field.

Religious studies, or Religious education, is the academic field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religious beliefs, behaviors and institutions.

He published an article on his own in 1951 in the American Psychologists that focused on women in the field and emphasized his beliefs.

Marketing research is a tactical, methods-driven field that consists mainly of neutral primary research that draws on customer data in the form of beliefs and perceptions as gathered through surveys or focus groups, and is analyzed through the application of statistical research techniques.

As superstitious beliefs died out, people became less cautious of destroying the field monuments such as raths and stone circles, which hitherto had been avoided in cultivation of the land.

Although Darwin changed his field of interest several times in these formative years, many of his later discoveries and beliefs were foreshadowed by the influences he had as a youth.

As a result, the beliefs of Mayanism tend to be characterized by a combination of esotericism and syncretism, rather than being the result of either formal controlled field research or detailed scholarly research that has been based on a broad range of primary sources.