Comparative religion

appearances and the prison door have many resembling features. Therefore, subconsciously, Hawthorne has successfully persuaded the audience that like prison, the Puritans are very strict and heartless when it comes to sinners who have violated their religion and laws. Moreover, this idea that the Puritan citizens are harsh individuals is further reinforced when Hester Prynne is accepting her punishment for committing adultery. Although Hester Prynne’s sentence is to be publicly humiliated on an…

more writers on this module, and its role in defining the self and a relation to the world Beginning in the seventeenth century, America began to experience a whirlwind of new religions. The Puritan movement began in the sixteenth, but more predominantly seventeenth century. Religious beliefs are pivotal when identifying people during this time period. According to The Oxford English Dictionary, self-definition is “ones individuality and role in life”, this is particularly evident in some of…

Amongst the enormous corpus of Hindu literature, Mahabharata stands out as a text of great magnitude, originally comprising of 100,000 Sanskrit shlokas, say about 2 million words. ‘Vedvyasya’, the author of Mahabharata has weaved a plethora of characters in this great Hindu epic, through which he takes the reader through every conceivable human emotion and situation, thus making it possible to identify with it even today. It even boasts, ‘What is here is found elsewhere. What is not here is…

• Jamiat Ulama-i-Islam, JUI-F: The history and orientation of Jamiat Ulama-i-Islam (JUI) dates back to the Dar-ul-Ulum Deoband which became a reference point of Sunni intellectual activity in 1867 when this Madrasa was established but actually it was formed in 1945 when members like Shabir Ahmad Usmani broke from the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind to support All India Muslim League by joining the Pakistan cause in the Indian subcontinent. Its first president was Allama Shabir Ahmed Usmani.…

Who is Allah talking to? This surah revealed in Makkah, where musyrikin extremely stubborn, so Allah sent down this Surah for those who are stubborn, which he repeated his word “Then which of the favors, miracles, wonders, powers, feats, gifts, and blessings will you both deny and deliberately lie against” Before, we go further lets we look at surah al Waqiah. There are five topics in surah al Waqiah which are talking about paradise, people with the right hand is the best people, people of the…

Life. Living, breathing and emotion; characteristics of which the human species share with the animal species. Why should they be treated differently? Just because they do not have a voice to air their opinions, does not make them subject to cruelty of any sort. There are numerous reasons to why a person should consider being a vegetarian. One key reason is that we need to see the spiritual nature within all living beings, this includes animals. If one believes that there is a greater being…

1. How important were the gods and goddesses to mythological beliefs?these gods and goddesses were very much important to these mythological beliefs. The reason why i say that is because all of the beliefs that i read about had to do with the creation of people and civilization with the structuring of their hands and thoughts. 2. How do the mythological themes in mythology differ among belief systems? Most of the time you think of mythological you end up saying that it not true while with a…

Culture; Brief definition: Culture sums up all the attributes that speak about the lifestyle of a region or society. The term culture is very vast and has multi-dimensional and multi-faceted meaning and explanations. The term culture includes every aspect as the religious beliefs, customs, traditions, language, ceremonies, art, costumes, dance, music, architecture, food, value, heritage, occupations, social relations, material objects like heritage and the way of life acquired by the people…

What is morality? Morality is an abstract concept in which one perceives certain actions as right or wrong, mostly based on religion. However, these ethics vary among societies; in a country in which Islam is seen as the main religion and Sharia law is adapted, women can only have one husband while men are allowed to have up to four wives. This is a direct example that proves the natural law theory by explaining that a connection between law and morality exists. The natural law theory tries to…

The interwovenness of kindness in the book of Ruth is unparalleled in any other book of the TaNaKh (aside from the "hesed" or "chesed" of the LORD). Although it appears that Ruth's kindness results in positive rewards, which it certainly does, that is not what the Book of Ruth is about, though. Further, it would be faulty to attribute Ruth to being simply a story of a cause and effect relationship between kindness and positive things. Such as the cause being kindness with results in the effect…