Haredi Judaism

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Durkheim and Purity and Danger by Douglas focus on key components about religions, such as their foundations, the meaning of rituals, and the construction of social order. These books develop different arguments with effective supporting evidence. Although there are several perspectives of the authors that are similar, such as religion constructing social order, there are many perspectives that aren’t similar. A significant disagreement between Purity…

THE SABBATH YEAR While the Sabbath occurred every seventh day, the Sabbatical Year occurred once every seven years. Just as there was to be six days of labor and one day of rest so the land was to “be tilled for six years and then allowed to rest by lying fallow in the seventh year.” Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, but during the seventh year the land shall have a Sabbath rest, a Sabbath to the Lord; you shall not sow your…

Freedom, Family, and Courage Exodus incorporates several themes throughout it such as courage, freedom, and the role of family. This book is based on the struggles of the Jewish freedom movement during the 1940s. The themes are used in the novel to set the story up and develop it. These themes helped make Exodus a Best-Seller. Courage is seen throughout the characters who risk everything to help the Jewish movement. The characters and the country of Israel finally being formed establishes…

Paper 2: Ottoman vs. Byzantine: Religious Building Architecture A general trend of the artworks in this course, throughout almost every society we have studied thus far, is the reference to religious practices and beliefs of a specific culture. This trend has not changed at all and can been seen directly in the significance of Byzantine and Ottoman architecture for places of religious practice. Though the specific religion that is referenced in these two cultures are different, some ways of…

Throughout Wilfred Smith's book The Meaning and End of Religion, he stresses his theory of religion and how it is being studied in the modern world. He conveys that each person has their own level of religiousness and spirituality whether it requires the proof of science or not and that many individuals often categorize the idea of religion into one box. In many religions, there is an inclination for people to associate religious symbols with sacredness instead of seeing them as a representation…

Modernity and the Jewish individual are the topics being discussed in the entry titled Modern Jewish Thought by Leora Batnitzky. Leora Batnitzky addresses the complicated question “What value is there to Judaism in an age in which Jews do not have to be defined as Jews?”. Using modern jewish philosophers and as well their beliefs and cultural backgrounds Leora aims to answer this complex question as well as lead the reader to ask and form their own opinions on this topic. In order to begin…

On Spirituality Mitch and Morrie do not discuss much about the concept of spirituality itself as they do not appreciate the word “spiritual” (Albom, 1997, p. 84). Spirituality considers the human yearn, “to seek meaning and purpose in life, inner peace and acceptance, forgiveness and harmony, hope, beauty” (Berman, et al., 2016, p. 954). Though Morrie culturally Jewish, he is all inclusive when it comes to religion. Though, Morrie discusses God testing Job in the Bible, the Buddhist concept of…

aspect of his writings on Jews that changes though. This paper will explore not only the change in Luther’s tone with regard to the Jews, but also how Luther’s view of censorship of Jewish writing, conversion of the Jews, and the nature of his anti-Judaism changed. Luther’s shift in…

Conflicting Truth Claims: Christianity vs Ancient Greek Polytheism Christianity approximately has 2 billion followers around the globe. Polytheism today has only about 100,000 followers which is a substantial decrease from around 750 BC when Homer's The Iliad was first written down. The gap between the two religions is quite noticeable, however, which religion appears to be the absolute truth has never been fully tackled. Christianity and Ancient Greek Polytheism have some of the same ideas, but…

Goode 2 THROUGH THE LENSE OF PROTHERO AND SMITH: ISLAM AND SIKHISM Myka Goode Religion 212: World Religion Dr. Rachel Brown December 8, 2017 THROUGH THE LENSE OF PROTHERO AND SMITH: ISLAM AND SIKHISM Essentially the Same and Fundamentally Different This research is meant to be a comparative essay between two religions, Islam and Sikhism. The religions are dissected to showcase that while there may be some differences, specifically the origin of the religion or how…