2008-2010 Honors Study Topic: The Paradox of Affluence: Choices, Challenges, and Consequences
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Mar 30th, 2006 • Category: Discussion Grid: Religion
- What role does the wealth of the Roman Catholic Church play in its global power?
- How did the Crusades affect the economies of the Middle East and Medieval Europe?
- In what ways has advertising contributed to the rise of mega-churches?
- How did the economic autonomy of African-American ministers of the 1950s and early-1960s lead to the extension of their power as leaders of the Civil Rights Movement?
- What impact has television, the Internet, and other technologies had on organized religion?
- How and why have churches developed their own curricula and schools?
- To what extent can a religious institution become too wealthy?
- In what ways do religious institutions gain or lose power when they take on the characteristics of corporations?
