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THe society in ancient egypt gave women many rights that other civilizations did not. Though women were given considerably more legal and civil rights than in other societies, they did not have the same freedoms as men. The primary job expected of women was to take care of their children and perform household tasks. While women could also hold jobs outside of the household unlike most ancient civilizations. In most ancient societies women had very few duties outside of their home, but in…

The Middle East has been known for being a hot spot of political turmoil and suppression. Surprisingly, however, there have been a group of nations who have been able to maintain their authoritarian regimes within their respective states, all of which then form the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). These states include Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, and Oman which will be discussed more specifically in this paper. All of the nations in the GCC take the form of monarchies and are the…

Much of the media coverage we experience today regarding Muslims and Islam circles around the term jihad. Often, the term “jihadist” is tagged to groups of individuals that employee extreme terrorist tactics. As a result, through Western eyes, jihad is violent Islam; Islam as a religion encourages practitioners to engage in jihad via terrorism. While many Muslims do emphasize jihad as an important aspect of their faith, in many cases, it does not imply violence or terrorism. Jihad was not…

tool within the Shi’a religion. It managed to divide Sunni and Shi’a Muslims. The Shi’a were the betrayed, the constantly oppressed and the Sunni were the ones persecuting and betraying them. The sects became truly divided once Hussein was murdered. Up until this instant they were not yet distinct sects of Islam. They had not had a defining moment, but after this point there was no turning back. The Sunni’s follow the murderer Yazid and the Shi’a will follow the son of their martyr. The…

In the religions of what one may consider barbarous, even if there were differences in each sect, everyone had adhered to the traditions of their own sect without reasoning and disputation. But in the case of Christianity, and other organized religions, Hume notes that new sects were “obliged to from a system of speculative opinion; to divide their articles of faith” (Hume, pgs. 38-39). In the essay, “Of Superstitions and Enthusiam”…

The main cause of the start of the reform of Judaism was Moses Mendelssohn in the 1780s. He is known as the father of the Haskalah which comes from the word “reason” or “intellect.” Mendelssohn stated that Judaism is a rational religion that is made to change and shift as time goes on. A more modern Reform Judaism began at the start of the 19th century. Rabbi Abraham Geiger felt that people disliked the Judaism because they it was too rigid, dull and old-fashioned. His goal was to alter…

Starke 156).” However, the Methodists experienced a decline and the rise of the Baptists “as the Methodists declined from 42 percent to 28 percent of all adherents, the Baptists grew from 30 to 43 percent (Finke and Starke 157).” The transformation from sect to church was one of the reasons that the Methodists lost their numbers, and what they lost the Baptists came to gain in…

and he reformed the postal system along with creating the postal stamp, that originated in Great Britain. Rowland spent countless years studying and changing the way postal economics were set-up and contributed to countless endeavors of different sects of his government. Education Sir Rowland Hill was born in December 3, 1795 (Postal Service). He was born into a family, who believed that education was key to achieve success in the real-world. If his parents taught him the importance of…

denunciation of cruelty. This strange duality of readings of the Bible, picking one theme or specific passage to support worldviews or choosing many themes and accepting their plurality is the cause for much religious conflict between sects of Christianity, and is the cause of sects having vastly different beliefs despite most Bibles being very similar. An example of this is the ability to ordain women in the Anglican Church, but the inability for women to priests in the Roman Catholic…

rights of Jews and commentary on Jewish tradition and law sparked the eighteenth century phenomenon of the Haskalah. The change in Jewish practice and theology marked the start of the modern period in Jewish history, bringing new concepts such as new sects, Zionism and integration with society. Arguably, it is the biggest change to take place since the transition away from Temple worship and sacrifice. However, both continuity and change must unite to keep history going; one can not stay the…