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was the reaction of Europeans to many aspects of Eastern culture when they first encountered it. However, Parrinder indicates that...

of both a man and a woman. These are considered to be pure beings made of Divine Consciousness which can be whatever they need t...

2002). It is the dominant religion in India and Nepal Dating back to prehistoric times, it is no surprise that Hinduism has had a...

we can broach the question presented above it is first necessary to understand the teachings of the "Bhagavad Gita" in terms of th...

meaning of Hinduism as it has been expressed during the twentieth century (1978). Buddhism embraces similar concepts as Hi...

methods presented by Livingston, and where they may well fit, we provide a brief look at the approaches, beginning with literary c...

Christian Bible. They are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (Rich, 1999). These are considered the Five Books of...

to being divine. However, they may pay reverence to images of Buddha (Gyatso, 2001). Buddha is seen as a teacher or a guide with B...

the mountains of Colorado and her life spent in the study of mountains, especially those of Colorado and Utah, have led her to a g...

In six pages this paper examines the religious practices in Hinduism as represented in this text by Stephen Huyler. There are no ...

In this 4-page paper, the author describes the importance of texts and temples in Buddhism and Hinduism. The views of a representa...

practice of prayer in the two religions is very different. Christianity calls for steady and ongoing prayer. They praised God, ask...

While there are some basic similarities between Christianity and Islam, there are also many differences. Both religions have...

Son. Joseph was a carpenter in a small village. Nazareth was a farming village but it was also a hub for the market which made i...

which set the family in a state of poverty (Hooker, 1996). Mohammeds family was from the Hashim clan, which was one of the poorer ...

their religion on the Torah, the first five chapters of the Christian Bible. The Torah tells of the messiah and his coming. The ...

society, leading to their religious viewpoint forming the basis of social morality. However, there is also something of a gre...

their complex social and cultural mores. Tradition was therefore rooted in the memory of the people as was the physical and moral...

believe that the Bible reflects the primitive concepts of the age in which it was written (Ahavat Israel, 1995). Reform Judaism no...

has been a "very big thing" (Axelrod, 1995, p. PG). Even just a decade ago, a Jewish womans place was still in the home, although...

and other changes are seen in the New Testament. While the New Testament to a great extent relies on the Old Testament, the change...

In nine pages this paper discusses the rise of these religions from the 17th century and its continued spread with contemporary co...

Christian religion is being discussed. In Catholicism and the Lutheran faiths, women are not allowed to be priests or reverends. I...

In five pages this paper examines how these major world religions originated and considers how they relate to each other. Five so...

In five pages this paper examines how these world religions conceptualize what it means to be a good person in terms of ethics, si...

In five pages these religions are examined in terms of their similar goals to provide mankind with an ultimate sense of purpose. ...

In five pages the similarities of these four major global religions are examined. There are seven sources cited in the bibliograp...

to his god. Another is in the form of what is accepted by Jews as the first covenant. This laid the foundation for the Jewish re...

applied to their celebratory events of Ramadan, Hanukkah and Easter. Unlike so many other religions that divide their devotion am...

worship upon just one -- and they glorify the same god, at that. It is curious that while it may appear on the outside that these...