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Female Involvement in Various Organized Religions

of the least considered female-dominated religions is Wicca, a practice that imparts spirituality, benevolence and earthly powers ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Middle East Terrorism

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

Islamic Women

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

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...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Hanbali Islam; The Religion of Saudi Arabia

the rulers. The differences between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam developed over a number of centuries, for many y...

Birth Rituals, Judaism and Islam

"Hebrew name" does not have to be in Hebrew, as Yiddish or English names are often used (Rich). Of all the Jewish rituals, the bri...

The Function of the Messiah in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

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

Women’s Rights and Islam: Sunni vs Shia

to confront the first Caliph of the Islamic nation. The Shiites, in contrast, felt like this position was destined to be filled w...

A Comparison of Radical Islam and Historical Group Conflict

into this latter category it does not fit very well into the others. While the barbarians that invaded ancient Rome sought to est...

Confucianism, Islam, Kinship Responsibilities and Moral Codes

particularly interesting examination of the variation that exists even in the face of a transcending moral code can be made with a...

Ancient Islam and Greece, Religion, Culture, and Science

was the force that recovered the information (Mathematics, 2005). In essence, in ancient times, "Scholarship supported science in ...

Christian and Islam Views on Creation

Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden and God as Creator. However, at this point, with the intervention of the devil, there is a cru...

Discipline and Islam

in the different aspect and practices, but to look at the way in which discipline manifest in the main practices of modern Islam. ...

Radical Islam and the Problems in the Middle East

holy cause. Therefore, compromise is unlikely. A student talks about the" energizing character of religious zeal. " Indeed, religi...

Is Islam Compatible With Democracy?

political values," which are necessary in order for representative democracy to flourish, values such as "separation of religious ...

The Relationship Of Sharia Law And Islam

in the Islamic world is to cultivate and perpetuate a sense of unity where jurisprudence is concerned, otherwise known as the ongo...

Women’s Rights/Incompatibility with Islam

of the state. They are always perceived in their relationship to men as defined by Islamic scripture. Within this social and polit...

Christianity and Islam

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

Islam in America's Workplace

(Lampman, 2001). Fourth is the Ramadan month-long period of fasting, which recreates the first communications between God and Muh...

Islam, Hinduism, Christianity and Women

study the Vedas. This particular Hindu book says that women "are entirely worthless creatures" (Dharma Universe, 2010). Even so,...

Two Characteristics in Christianity and Islam

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

Founders of Christianity and Islam

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...