Part one of term paper
Religion an essential guide to peace and happiness for us as individuals or is it simply an easy way to control people who choose to follow it? That is a question I have asked myself for the last five years and to this day I do not have an answer. However, to shed a little light on the subject I have chosen to look into the R.E.M. song †...

Part two of term paper
... the song. The first of these concepts is secularization which occurs mostly in modern industrial based societies. It is defined as a process in which religious beliefs and practices lose importance.(Marshall,1994: pg.468) This concept is of great significance to the essay because we live in a secular society where people are becoming less and less religious. Another important concept is alienation, often when one loses his/her religion he/she becomes isolated or alienated from their religious c ...