Research Paper on:
Religion and Identity

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certain predestined personality. Others state that identity occurs as one progresses through various stages of life, while other scholars believe that ones environment plays a significant factor in determining ones  identity. If this latter statement is true, then might it be true that ones religious affiliation might, too play some part in ones self identity?  After the introductory paragraph, the student will want to concentrate on fleshing out the body of the paper. If the introductory paragraph has been constructed well, the salient  points will already be there, waiting for elaboration. For example, the introductory paragraph states that there has been quite the debate about what constitutes identity. One needs to now become  more specific and mention what sorts of information will be concentrated on. In this case, it will be a discussion of ones personal identity and how placing ones self in  a differing situation, such as a different ethnic or religious group might affect one, given ones background in a certain faith and certain outlook on life. ONE The student  has chosen to insert herself into a Jain religious service. As far as background goes, the student has been attending a Lutheran church and was raised in the Christian faith.  Being raised in the Christian faith there are certain principles which one takes for granted, the student might wish to expound upon. For example, one is taught from an early  age that there is only one life, one death and one chance to get right with God. This guiding principle may have been a guiding force recently in that it  has kept the student from engaging in seriously destructive behavior based on the fact that religious upbringing forbids such actions. As a child this upbringing served to set moral frameworks