Religion and mythology

Shinto is an ethnic, Japanese religion. Shinto is also referred to as Kam-no-Michi: “the way of Gods.” It is an assortment of beliefs and ritual practices focused on creating a connection between present day Japan and its ancient past. Early Shinto practices were first recorded in the 8th century, but these writings did not refer to Shinto necessarily as “organized religion” but rather a collection of beliefs and mythology. Shintos believes that nature is exact with the divine. Shinto…

Indian and Greek mythology are so alike that some people think that they could have been from the same myth and people's interpretations were different which created two different religions. Most of the similarities are with the gods like Zeus and Indra, Hades and Yama, and Hermes and Narada. The main difference is how they thought the universe was created. Greek and Indian mythology differ on only a few thing but are a lot more alike than you may think. In Indian mythology the god of the…

agreed on religion, or what was considered the most acceptable form of religion. Thomas Paine and Jonathan Edwards are two individuals who believed in the same God, but had two very different perspectives on the purpose and the practice of religion. Jonathan Edwards is considered to be one of the most well-known preachers of the Great Awakening period, which was considered to be a “spirit of…

The literary poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, originated in Britain fourteenth century, contain a number of Celtic culture and religion in the story as well as the way of its transmission. It have been passed many years as Celtic Mythology of the legend of Gawain. “The Celts ware a non-Germanic, Iron Age folk that had migrated throughout Europe between the fifth and third centuries B.C.E., settling in the British Isles before the time of Christ.” (Gloria 254) Celtic people orally…

Hinduism is one of the oldest and the third largest followed religion. Unlike many other religion, Hinduism has many gods and yet many consider it as a monotheistic, since Hindus worship one god in different forms. There is a famous Sanskrit saying in India especially amongst the Hindus that Ekam Sat Viprah Bahudha Vadanti (Truth (God) is One, sages know it differently). Some people may worship Bhagavad Geeta, some may believe in Ramayana and some in Mahabharata. Hinduism has a diverse body of…

wonder, what is the true meaning of religion, and what religion is right? There are handfuls of religions that you could believe in, but what makes yours righter than someone else’s? That is why I will be explaining serval author’s arguments over what they believe of religion and all its meanings. Many of this authors do argue similar ideas as they also do disagree on many things. The four passages I will be summering for you are “The Great Question Ch.1”, and “Religion Ch.3” by Portier, “God is…

mainstream Western propaganda. He drew provocative and threatening images of the muslim religion. However, we could say religions are human weakness. This is what religion has to offer, and that is all it was about since the beginning especially when the Protestants and Catholics experienced bloodshed.There is a critical difference between spirituality and mythology (both comforting and harmless) vs. Organized religion, such as an arbitrary authority. A ”gifted"…

personally satisfying and supports life (Meyers, 2006). “The Expectation of something desired: desire combined with expectation” as stated in the Oxford English Dictionary. Hope is reflected upon in many different aspects such as religion, healthcare, literature, mythology, and psychology. The Penguin dictionary states the definition of hope is to “To have faith in the possibility of something or to hope for something when there is virtually no possibility of it” (Hopel, 2007). In regards to…

Norse mythology is a religion that the vikings believed in and it is very similar to Greek mythology and very different as well. The way the Greeks and Norse believed the world was created were far from similar. The believed in powerful gods and goddesses, they each have a part in the world. They also had a different belief on how the world would end. Norse mythology and Greek mythology are very alike but the stories are twisted around a bit to end with the same outcome. We all know about…

Underworld is thought to be deep underground or beneath the surface of the world in most religions and mythologies. It is a place where the souls of the departed go an afterlife or a realm of the dead. The Underworld “was hidden deep in the earth and was the kingdom of the dead, ruled by god Hades”.(Mythology, 2017) The planet Pluto is “considered King of the Underworld in Roman mythology”.(Gill, 2017) Most religions believe that “the lowest part of the world usually represented as the realm of…