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Islamic and Hindu Religions on Death and Dying

In eight pages the ways these religions deal with dying and death through ritual and corpse disposition are compared and contraste...

Destiny and Hinduism

In eleven pages this paper examines the Hindu religion in terms of its destiny concept in an overview of history and karma. Five ...

Yoga in Buddhism and Hinduism

from around A.D. 300, which is one of six classical systems of Indian philosophy. The literature on Yoga stems from the set of sut...

Spinoza and Hindu Monism

In five pages this paper compares Hindu monism with Spinozan monism in this overview. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Body, Gender, and the Discourses of Mexico, Islam, and Hinduism

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...

Spiritual and Non Spiritual Separation and Bhagavad Gita

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

Dharma and Hinduism

Hindus in that they also believe that dharma is a natural universal law which is in and pervades everything. To live in harmony wi...

Ancient Cultural Development and Anthropomorphic Gods

addresses the divine" (Smith PG). Greek mythology is replete with examples of how anthropomorphic gods influenced cultural behavi...

Hindu Women and Their Female Role

the case in India, however. In fact, many ancient religions, which pre-date Hinduism and even Christianity, place women as the dom...

Different Social Perspectives Considered in an Interview Sample

in her husband and aid him in achieving his duties and responsibilities. Natalia says, "Because we see a union of a man and wom...

Sramana Tradition & Hinduism

of Hinduism, and it is generally revered and considered to be the source of dharma.5 "Veda" can be translated literally as "knowl...

The Symbolism of the Hindu Marriage Ceremony

complex, and comprises 13 separate steps, each performed in accordance with Vedic tradition, and each symbolizing some aspect of t...

Suffering and Evil

suffering: Why doesnt he participate, and why does he leave his faithful servants to suffer?5 These questions are fundamental to...

Hindu: Variety and the Bhagavad-Gita

Religion, 2006). This simple illustration covers all of history, in relationship to the religion, and clearly indicates that there...

Cultural Ideals and Plays of Chikamatsu

giri. Osan says, "I could see that you were drifting towards suicide. I felt so unhappy that I wrote a letter, begging her as one ...

Hinduism and Mythology

came about where concepts such as heaven, divinity, truth, the sanctity of birth, and sacrifice (2005). These were new concepts in...

Hinduism

with God (Eck, 1991). One gets a sense that he people go because they want to and not due to a sense of obligation. Offerings are...

Worldview of Washington Irving in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

Views on the Social Practice of Gay Marriage

Bush Oppose Gay Marriage 14). The statement went on to pronounce heterosexual marriage as "holy, while homosexual acts go against...

Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution

the flow of information. Prior to the effects of the printing press, it was relatively easy for the Church to suppress books and w...

Nursing and Knowledge

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

Zhang Deyi's Point of View

seem to build wherever they journey. This is a rather objective notion. Clearly, this does seem to be the case today and Deyi noti...

Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess'

to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...

Livy's History of Rome/Heroes & Villains

king also ordered killed. They were subsequently left to die of exposure and were discovered by a she-wolf. Discovered by the king...

The Disturbing Worldview of Alfred Hitchcock

the side of the road in the midst of miles of cornfields. It is a bright, sunny afternoon and the prairie seems benign after the c...

Gawain & Green Knight/Wife of Bath

the entirety of those present that one of them should strike the Green Knight with the ax, which he has brought as a gift, and tha...

Worldviews and Storytelling

their lives more worthwhile. Conspicuously absent in this story is the weak and fragile persona; instead, Hurstons account ...

Oration of Pico

therefore created as basically protean, formless, and capable of making what he wishes of himself. The other creations are fixed w...

Othello and Iago's Views of the World

discussing Othello, Roderigo blatantly refers to Othello in derogatory terms by calling him "the thick lips" which directly single...

'The Aurora of Autumn and the Plain Sense of Things' by Wallace Stevens and 'Wasteland' by T.S. Eliot Compared and Contrasted

to is none other than that of the Romantic period. The person who considered himself a romantic, too, would question some of life...