Comparative religion

INTRODUCTION The different experiences we live, the impact of our surroundings in our lives, the constant evolution of the world, the lessons from our forebears and the diversity we perceive in our daily activities influence the way we see the world so our values. Indeed, in comparison to morals which is defined as motivation based on right and wrong and ethics1 defined as the rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or the members of a profession2, values are beliefs helping us to…

The idea of religion and the justice of God also appears in John Donne’s “[At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow…]”. While Hardy rejects the idea that God is kind and just, instead arguing that chance controls the events of life, Donne believes that God will dispense…

Introduction Evangelist Latrice Ryan is one of many black women preachers within Pentecostalism, a religious tradition that traces its origins to the Azusa Street Revival of 1906. The Revival is noted for its interracial attendance with dominant narratives suggesting that historically Pentecostalism has valued both racial and gender egalitarianism (Alexander and Young 2009). Thus, scholarship focused on Pentecostalism typically hones in on the egalitarian aspect of this religious tradition,…

Kosher, Halal and Vegetarian are each food groups or classifications that have played significant roles in three unique religions. Each having a controlling effect on the practicing religious community it relates to. The link between religious belief and the regulations on specific foods continues to be a divisive issue. Over time the demands of religious or spiritualist groups on the range of acceptable food has both created and divided communities. With some sighting that such restrictions are…

narrating and analyzing how a hero(e) took his role in a story or myth. Myths explain stories were the character face magnificent phenomenons.“The Hero's Journey” methodology was created by Joseph Campbell who was an editor and author of different comparative mythologies. “ The Hero's Journey” is the cycle that the hero does to achieve a goal. This cycle is represented in two parts; when the hero is in his/hers ordinary world, and then something or someone calls him/her to the adventure,they…

In the collection of landays, titled “I am the Beggar of the World” the landay labeled as “Grief” stands out because of its heartfelt message to the rest of the world. Women in the Muslim world want each other and the rest of the world to understand their struggles. Not that they are opposed to the way they live, but that they know that it could be better than the way it is. The oppression inflicted upon women in the Muslim world is clearly represented in these landays through the thoughts…

Kindred People-Kindred Minds The contemporary American Christian may profess to have a thorough understanding of the nature of Christianity. Yet he may have, at best, only a vague awareness of the ancient Jewish roots to which Christianity is bound. To add to his confusion, much of the text contained in the sermons delivered from many pulpits is only loosely based on academic study and may contain a great deal of emotionally charged rhetoric. This combination of lack of understanding on the…

with their own Western way of life, those bought up in the mosaic religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam would you encourage them to search further in their own religions or look into Buddhist as an alternative? His Holiness answered: That’s a tricky question. Of course from the Buddhist viewpoint we are all human beings and we all have every right to investigate either one’s own religion or another religion on a whole a comparative study of different religious traditions is…

school. I begun with the question ‘how do you define religion?’ followed by ‘what do you think the role of religion is in our world?’. I understand very well those are very personal questions and no right answer. However, these simple questions can reveal so much from the person’s identity to their personality to their openness to diversity and wisdom. I thought it would be interesting to introduce two influential scholars that approached religion is contrasting directions. I brought Mircea…

and how it was influenced by three main attributes including, religion, family, and workplace environment. Durkheim trusted that religion assumed an important part in giving union and standards in a general public. He stressed over the potential results to the social request when a general public loses its religiosity. This essay will focus on Durkheim’s two most famous analysts of suicide and religious life which both discuss religion as one of the main impacts of the individual self-worth and…