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Adolescence and Sexuality

in an economic position to support a family. The PPA adopts a pragmatic outlook, in that it leaves matters of religious beliefs re...

Homosexuality and World Religions

represents a threat to those ideals is subject to punition" (Swidler). While the protection of womens morality is common throughou...

Biography of Elijah Muhammad

and in 1923 he ended up settling and working in Detroit on the General Motors automotive assembly line. Elijah met and married Cla...

Comparing Western and Eastern Religions

ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...

Sunnis, Shiites and Differences in Their Religious Beliefs

the Muslims(Guillaume, 1955). The Shiites seem to have begun as a family feud of sorts. When the prophet Mohammad (PBUH) died, th...

The Straight Path by John Esposito

West has had trouble reconciling Muhammad as a spiritual leader and also as a military conqueror. He explains this seeming dichoto...

Examining Rituals and Beliefs of Islam

provides a non-ethnocentric view of Islam. A number of Western writers, however, have attempted to approach Islam in an honest an...

Globalization and Islam

removing religion and irrationality from human history" (Inayatullah, 2002). The ideals of globalization are also predominantly ...

West and Whether or Not Iran Poses a Legitimate Threat

life. Though cultural and religious differences are often supported as a means of directing public opinion towards the belief t...

Islam and Sufism

on to explain that Sufism, drawing on this tradition, actually evolved roughly two centuries after the beginning of Islam. The c...

Islam and Marxism

for the most part and that matters. There is the Protestant Work Ethic that is aligned with the "spirit of capitalism," that Max W...

Conversion to Islam After 911

September 11 has brought a massive increase in conversions to Islam as never seen before" (Igbal). He proves his own asser...

Islam and Interfaith Marriage

by His Grace to the garden of bliss and forgiveness. And He makes His signs clear to mankind, that they may receive admonition". M...

The Philippines and Indonesia and Their Treatment of Islam

He was so devout in his beliefs, that eventually he caused the downfall of the Majapahit kingdom, which had been very powerful.7 ...

Development and Influence of Christianity and Islam

I of Austrasia and then Pepin III (also known as Pepin the Short) who would ultimately depose the last Merovingian king and become...

Pakistan and Islam

only hold power in areas in which they can maintain political and economic support of the rich as well as the social mandate of th...

Personal Freedom and Religion

personal liberation through approaching everything in life as it relates to what Allah wants, not what the individual wants. There...

Islamic Women

Like other writers, he sees the current position of women as reflecting the respect in which they were held in previous eras:...

Religious Beliefs, Importance to Nursing

This paper considers the role of patients' religion and how it should impact nursing care. The writer focuses on the way in whic...

Diabetic Intervention, Islam, et al. (2013)

This analysis critique the study conducted by Islam, et al. (2013), which addresses diabetes risk among Korean Americans. Four pag...

Middle East Before After Islam

This essay discusses the Arabian peninsula before and after Islam. There are five sources used in this five page paper....

Middle East Terrorism

difference in the way that religion is practiced and interpreted. Growing rapidly in popularity, Islam is in fact spreadi...

Civilization and Religion of Islam

in war and conflict for generations. Islam is a unique and comprehensive ideology which serves as a guide for the worldly...

A 911 Sociological Analysis

Whether or not the charge regarding globalization is true is besides the point. The people feel that way and are perhaps angered t...

Islam and Buddhism Spread Throughout Asia

the silk trade in general, laid the groundwork for the spread of religion. One might compare the phenomenon to the Internet today....

Buddhism's Spread Throughout the East

several different schools" (Anonymous The History of Buddhism, 2002; history.html). From this we can perhaps understand that these...

Post 911 and U.S. Islamic Communities

States. Abdulwahab Alkebsi, executive director of the Islamic Institute in Washington stated after the attacks that "this is the b...

Sub Saharan Gold Trade and Islam

of the cultural impacts resulting from the extensive trade which characterized the period revolved around controlling the trade ro...

Christian Views on the Islamic Prophet Muhammad

however, given the current state of world affairs it is imperative that we gain a better understanding of it. A number...

Similarities and Differences That Exist Among Global Religions

that their God will ultimately rule the world, that the Jews have established the doctrines of faith and hope as the "two most pro...