Sacred

Discuss the History of Judaism in terms of Exile and Return Judaism is a religion that has developed from its mythical origin of Abraham and his covenant with God to the religion we see today. This development came through the Jewish interpretation and reflection of its religion in history and this history is dominated by the concept of Exile and Return. In exchange for his belief in and worship of a single God, Abraham was told his descendants were a chosen people who would have the…

nostrils of man the breath of life. That breath that you have today is not just air it is the breath of God and where the breath of God is there is life. Life comes from the Lord. Life was once a very sacred thing. However, today many are so involved in a fast paced society that little is thought just how sacred life really is. We allow those of their profession to go in and murder unborn children, thinking nothing about crushing the skull of an unborn infant. God help us. Then there is the…

The major threat to the survival of indigenous religions is globalization. Different indigenous people are being forced to remove from their lands. Companies and businesses who want to build on indigenous peoples lands often remove them from their environment. This makes them feel like they have lost their soul and identity. It's as if you were in your house and someone just told you to get out because they were going to tear your house down and start building a building in its place. To keep a…

“Temple Mount Summary” Israeli authorities have taken action through banning all non-Muslim prayer within Temple Mount’s compound and restricting Jewish prayer to the tattered remnants of the West Wall in an attempt to dissipate heated debate of this sacred location. After an attempted Palestinian assassination of a protuberant Israeli advocate, Yehuda Glick, Israeli governmental officials temporarily forbade all Palestinian men under the age of 35 from entering the complex. Preceding Muslim…

Michael Mann says power comes from society itself and that it is organized along four mentions. IEMP stands for: Ideological, Economic, Military, Political sources of social power. Mann says that societies are constituted of multiple overlapping and intersecting socio-spatial networks of power. These powers are organized and utilized in ways to achieve goals. These concepts apply to organizations like ISIS as well as the civil rights movement. I, or Ideological power, is dominated by religious…

From god, to many gods, to no god, religion today varies from one another. Hinduism take no exception to that. Starting from the 8th century, Hindus first rose up to be a label after Muslims invaded India, referring to “…the term Hindu as a generic designation for non-Muslim Indians… (Klostermaier 17). Then the term Hinduism later became cemented to refer as the practice of Hindus, after Englishmen in the 1830s “…writing about the religions of India, added –ism to Hindu and coined the term…

because of the white man. Aboriginals have lots of special natures, ethics and culture which are most valuable for them. These include sacred paintings which have been obtained from the past generations. Aboriginal people introduce themselves and their culture through paintings which were created millenniums ago. (KateOwenGallery 2015) Painting of aboriginals on sacred rocks and barks represent the Dreamtime and the creation of how they lived 50000 years ago. These painting and signs were…

holy tree and contrasting views concerning the appearance of humans on Earth. The Iroquois and “Yahweh” are similar in the interpretation of the significance of the holy tree in their culture. Specifically, both myths view the tree as a precious and sacred monument that should not be disturbed. The Iroquois woman, curious and strong-willed, is hungry and demands she be brought bark from…

quotation, such as firm, mutually, Lives, Fortune, and Honor, creates an authoritative tone, due to the sharpness of the diction, thus emphasizing the authoritative tone of the Declaration. Also, diction choices in the quotation, such as divine and sacred, creates an impassioned (emotional or heartfelt) tone, due to the descriptiveness of the diction, thus emphasizing…

problematic practices in the name of said deity. However, if one chooses to worship this omnipotent presence, why only worship certain parts of it? Everything that is a part of its creation is fundamentally a part of it. Worshipping all of what is sacred to us is another part of eco-spirituality. It appears to be an all-or-nothing way of life but there is no expectations that these critical changes will take place in a short amount of…