Abraham, a Role Model for Many People In most cases, people have difficulties agreeing on the same thing. In fact, it hardly ever happens at all. A lot of people try to do it, but most of the time, it is just too hard. It is hard to get people who are good friends to agree with each other sometimes...
In Arabia, before the advent of Islam, the birth of a female child was regarded as a great misfortune and a shame, and cruel fathers buried them alive: "When news is brought to one of them of (the birth) of a female (child), his face darkens, and he is filled with inner grief. ...
The Islam religion has five fundamental requirements: Ramadan fasting, believing that the only God is Allah and that Prophet Mohammed is Allah's messenger, praying five times daily, giving to charity, and making a pilgrimage to Mecca if possible. The word "hijab" comes from the Arabic word "hi...
My Outlook of Religion In our culture today we live in a society that has shifted its focus to career, money, and personal gain. We have lost much relative to our belief in Jesus Christ and his message. The scientific and technological advances in medicine have lessoned the impact that the mess...
An even better example is that of Mother Theresa, Albanian by birth, who, despite her strong Christian affiliation, was able to successfully take care of millions of Hindu India's poor. ... At birth, the United States, most of whose citizens were from Europe, took note of these and made a clear separation between church and state. ...
A goal of Hindus is to achieve Moksha, to be freed from the cycle of birth and death (when the "good" and the "bad" karmas balance.) or reach Swarga, the abode of the Divine Soul or Paramatma [God] to serve at His feet. ... The Old Testament (the part of the Bible written before Jesus' birth) was completed in 450 B.C., hundreds of years before Jesus was born. ...
Women in Islam The status of Muslim women in neither a new nor a fully settled issue(Baldawi 131). Contrary to popular belief, the status of women in Islam is not the abuse and horror one might think. Most stereotypes of Islamic women are a result from the way women are treated in Arabian time...
Hinduism is very different from other religions such as Christianity and other Western religions. What I mean by that is Christianity and other Western religions have a single founder, a specific theological system, a single system of morality, or a central religious organizing. It consists of thous...
Cultural festivals in Malaysia are usually very colourful, exciting, and portray the spirit of unity and togetherness, despite the diversities of cultures and religions.Amongst the major cultural festivals, such as the Thaipusam,Chinese New Year, Deepavali, Gawai and Tadan Ka'amatan or the Harvest...
Hinduism And Christianity One would think that Christianity and Hinduism would have nothing in common, but in some ways they are. But mostly there are differences between the two. In this comparison that I am making one can find these similarities and differences. First I w...
What about Islam or Buddhism? Some people have argued that religion should come with a health warning like we get on cigarette packets. "Religion can seriously damage our health." The relationships that these two religions share are highly different but in some sense equa...
Byzantine Art focus is on human figures, whose identities reveal three main elements in the formation of the Byzantine Empire. Most famous are the holy figures of the Christian faith: Christ, the Virgin Mary, the saints, and the apostles. Angels often are represented in their company. Byzantine arti...
Hinduism vs. Islam Hinduism believes in the worship of God in every conceivable way, both as a supreme formless and universal self and also as individual gods and goddesses. Hinduism is also referred to a popular term today known as Santana Dharma which translates to "eternal religion". ...
Introduction Christianity has existed in Australia since the arrival of the first fleet dated in 1788, and was basically the most dominant religion as there was only a minor of other religious followers such as Islam and Judaism. In today's modern world, Christianity is still the most popular re...
Christianity is the world's largest religion with more than two billion followers. With a large number of followers comes large diversity in the way people follow the religion because different people have their own way of understanding religion. Christians, on the basis of their view about faith, c...
Structure 1 Peter was written in letter format and starts out like most of the other letters at the time. The author introduces himself as Peter and apostle of Jesus Christ and then goes on to address the letter to who it was intended for, God's elect who were scattered all over Asia minor. A...
The start of Islam is actually derived form Christianity, history books indicates that one night in the year 610, the first of many revelations came to Muhammad from God by way of the angel Gabriel (In Christianity this is the same Angel which brings the news of Jesus' birth, Jesus of course is the founder of Christianity). ...
Will the Teachings of Jesus Christ Survive the New Millennium? There are presently 35 television stations owned and operated by religious organizations, but every television station features religious programming in one way or another. Religious television program producers ar...
The Abrahamic religions of the Middle East developed quite differently from the religions of Southeast and Central Asia, despite their relative proximity to each other. This is especially true in the cases of Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Shinto, Taoism, and Hinduism, all of which are major theol...
"So Long a Letter," was a story written in the form of a letter, that discussed the trails and tribulations that Ramatoulaye and her friend Assioute encountered after their husband wedded for a second time. With Senegal moving into a time of modernization, woman begun to have a new outlook on their ...
Treatment of Women in Islamic and Hindu Culture From the beginning of time, women have been looked down upon as inferior to men. Societies have long since been patriarchal, with only men holding positions of authority. Women were excluded from public life and were left to be in charge of home and ...
Islam is one of the most misunderstood religions of the world. There are many myths and lies that exist about Muslims today that need to be cleared up and straightened out. A Muslim is someone who follows the religion of Islam. The relationship between these two words is that Islam is act...
