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Education majors had a positive correlation with both the level of religious importance in one's life and the frequency of attendance at religious services.

For the physical sciences, including biology, the overall trend was neutral, with no major change in religiosity. Somewhat oddly, these students showed increased attendance at religious services, but a reduced sense of religious importance. 

The Sun Dance is a ceremony practiced differently by several North American Indian Nations, but many of the ceremonies have features in common, including dancing, singing and drumming, the experience of visions, fasting, and, in some cases, self-torture. The Sun Dance was the most spectacular and important religious ceremony of the Plains Indians of 19th-century North America, ordinarily held by each tribe once a year usually at the time of the Summer Solstice. The Sun Dance last from four to eight days starting at the sunset of the final day of preparation and ending at sunset. It showed a continuity between life and death - a regeneration. It shows that there is no true end to life, but a cycle of symbolic and true deaths and rebirths. All of nature is intertwined and dependent on one another. This gives an equal ground to everything on the Earth.

The Sun Dance symbolizes a resolution with the conflict between being a people that view the buffalo as wise and powerful, even closer to the creator than humans, and having to kill and eat them to survive. Making the buffalo sacred, symbolically giving new life to it, and treating it with respect and reverence acts a s a sort of reconciliation. Without the buffalo there would be death, and the Plains Indians saw that the buffalo not only provided them with physical well-being, but kept their souls alive, too.

There are many organizations which are working on healing relations between religious and secular Jews in Israel and they are using a large variety of approaches for tackling the issue. Although many of these organizations have been around for quite a few years, since the Rabin assassination new organizations have been created and pre-existing ones have become more active. They can be divided into roughly three categories: political, conflict-driven and educational.

One challenge that many organizations face is attracting people to their programs- particularly the ultra-orthodox. The influence of the media in inflaming perceptions and encouraging stereotypes is another area that is identified as a challenge.