Understanding Christianity through religious traditions

interrelationship in our society creates oppression for underprivileged religions. Just like the other –ism’s we have discussed; religious oppression is also structural and systemic. The privileged religion in our society is Christianity; a religion that has become the “normative” in America. Christian hegemony refers to the everyday incorporation of Christianity through “U.S schools, neighborhoods, and workplaces” (228). Christian privilege allows religious holidays to be respected under the federal calendar, Christian images and architectures to be seen as “normal” and freedom of safety to express worship without mockery. To be Christian in our society is a privilege; because its “beliefs, language, practices do not require any special effort to be recognized” (228). People of other religions have to explain their religions and…

then to look for the functional equivalences between our symbology and theirs. However, we can only do so if we are willing to listen and learn how the members of this community participatively engage their own symbols. Firstly, we have to develop an account of our religious background which can bridge the latter to the symbolism of other traditions. Hence, on the ground of that, we can understand how our interlocutors relate themselves to their symbols, insofar as to them such symbols are…

constantly developing, in order to more efficiently answer the enduring questions of life. Christianity is the world’s largest religious tradition, with approximately one third of the world population being Christian adherents; according to the Religious Tolerance Organisation. As a result of Christianity’s vast followers, it is often regarded as a living tradition that is continually subject to change, in order to adapt to the needs of the contemporary religious followers. All religious…

Christian religious tradition (or Christianity) has long been thought of as a set of dogmas, sacraments and moral attitudes linked with a belief and reverence in God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit as captured in the stores of the Bible. Within Biblical gospels one find descriptions of the many miracles Jesus Christ bestowed upon mankind, stories that became fundamental to Christian belief, where the faithful profess to the genuine nature of these stories as factual truths. Given the…

sessions of the class, I had a discussion about religion with the more religious members of my family. The overall question: “What if our belief is wrong?” In this sense, belief refers to the faith that Christianity is the one true religion of the world. The debate was thoroughly heated, and lasted for quite a while, however two things stuck with me: their belief indicated that Christianity…

Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, raises the question whether Christianity and British colonization had a unifying or disruptive impact on the Igbo community. Initial reading suggests to the reader that the influence of Christianity produced only a negative impact on the Igbo since the British colonists took over the Igbo community’s way of life, government, and disposed of their religious-cultural traditions in order to build Christian traditions. However, under the surface the missionaries of…

investing their energies in the goal of Christianity’s “eschatological hope.” Fredericks observes that official teachings of the Church confuse us about the meaning of dialogue; for example, the two documents Dominus Iesus and Redemptoris Missio reads, “Interreligious dialogue is part of the church’s evangelizing mission.” For Fredericks, “linking dialogue with evangelization is easily misunderstood” because such expression has a sense of understanding dialogue as “a tool to convert others to…

The Influence of Byzantine Culture on the Russian Religious Faith and Literature Byzantine heritage was the source of cultural life for Kievan Rus. Later, the territories known as Russian Empire, adopted the main principles of faith borrowed from Rus which developed into the whole system of philosophical views. Despite the fact that Byzantium fell in sixteen century, its cultural legacy continues existing today and it takes its rightful place in world culture. The main contribution of the…

Christianity is referred to as a belief and reverence of God, Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit lined to a set of dogmas, sacraments and moral principles as captured in the stories of the Bible. Within Biblical gospels, one find descriptions of the many miracles Jesus Christ bestowed upon mankind, stories of which have become foundational to Christian belief, where the faithful profess their genuine nature and factual truths. For Christian’s miracles, expressions of divine intervention and the…

positivism, which means that a logical thought based upon valid methods. Descartes advocated for a complete and precise natural science through a method that is analytical. This method involved rearranging broke up pieces in a logical order. Since the scientific revolution that positivism brought, subjects such as chemistry, astronomy, and physics prospered and defined science. Although this was critical for science, by adhering to the scientific method, it leads to misleading its subject…