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Hypothesis Identification Article Analysis Paper
Hypothesis Identification Article Analysis Paper
This is a summary analysis of a research paper written by three individuals – M.T. Maloney, Abdulkadir Civan and Mary Frances Maloney. The composition itself is titled Model of Religious Schism with Application to Islam (Civan, A., M.F. Maloney & M.T. Maloney, 2009a).
The paper “The Model of Religious Schism” explores the concept of religious alienation, discord and division down through the years. The paper attempts to answer many of the nagging questions as to why various religions, such as Christianity and Islamic religions splinter and disunion from the mainstream of the primary doctrine.
Analysis
It is well known that man has developed many different religious tenets down through time; and the most successful ones (Christianity, Islamic, Judaism, etc.) according to the paper have two basic belief structures (Civan, A., M.F. Maloney & M.T. Maloney, 2009b):
1) That there exists a transcendent being that advocates and intervenes in the activities and lives
of man
2) Depending how a person lives theirs life within the boundaries of the earthly realm, that life
determines when they die if they will have a blissful afterlife
One of the hypotheses that the researchers defined was that certain factors occur to create the break from the mainstream and some those factors include conflicts from within that occur because belief structures vary from one extreme to the other of the base beliefs. Another factor includes deviation or permutation of credo or tenets of the particular belief system of a religion and also how it is exercised and performed. One widely known schismatic break was that between early Christianity and the Reformation which included new groups such as Protestants and Anglicanism (Christianity itself is a schismatic break from Judaism). Another is in the Islamic...