Religion as an object of anthropological study
Book review - 1 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
This article is based on the articles of the Clifford Geertz Religion as a cultural system and the article of T. Asad: The construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category. In Religion as a cultural system T. Asad 's opposition to C.Geert's theory underlines the difficulty in...
Anthropology of Religion: The study of Myths based on Alan Dunde's and Lévi-Strauss's articles
Text commentary - 2 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
This essay is based on Alan Dundes's article Earth-Diver: Creation of the Mythopoeic Male and Claude Lévi-Strauss one The Structural Study of Myth. With Levi Strauss and Alan Dundes's works we have two examples of different approaches to study myths in anthropology. Both of them seem to...
"The word and the world: evangelicalism in the Victorian city" - David Englander (1988)
Text commentary - 2 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
The text under consideration is extracted from the book "Religion in Victorian Britain?, published in 1988. It is called "The Word and the World: Evangelicalism in the Victorian City" and was written by David Englander, a Lecturer in European Humanities at the Faculty of Arts at the Open...
The intrusion of church behind bars. Case Study: faith-based prison programs in the U.S.
Essay - 10 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
The Evangelical leader Charles W. Olson had promoted his dream of a 'Christian prison' for years. After he was convicted for his role in the Watergate scandal, this former aid of President Nixon was released from jail in 1975. He founded then, the Prison Fellowship Program in 1976. This...
The United States: A "theodemocracy"? The ambiguous relationship between religion and politics
Essay - 10 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
As Julia Gronnevet said, “comparing the United States to the Roman Empire is a popular pastime” . For instance, in his book entitled Are we Rome?: the Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America (2007), Cullen Murphy established some parallels between these two political entities both...
Religion in the USA: ' Religion flourishes in greater purity without than with the aid of government. '
Essay - 2 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
"Religion is belief in a god or gods and the activities that are connected with this belief, such as praying or worshipping in a building such as a church or temple.? (Collins Cobuild - Lexicon). Thus religion seems to be the basis of some specific kinds of communities (communities of beliefs and...
Is Britain a religious country?
Essay - 3 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
Nowadays, in the modern western countries, religion is becoming less and less important, and that includes Great-Britain. Since the end of Second World War, religion has lost its grip on peoples lives for many reasons. According to the many polls that have been conducted recently by a national...
Islam and Modernity : towards a modern comprehension of Islam
Essay - 6 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
The events of the 20th century have totally disturbed the geography of Islam. Decolonization and globalization have been raising new issues in Muslim societies throughout the world. In this essay, we will see how the tension between the search for a Muslim identity on the one side, and the push...
Religion in the United States and in England
Worksheets - 4 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
The United States is an unusual country as far as religion is concerned. Firstly, as opposed to all the industrialized countries in which church affiliation is declining, the US remains a very religious nation. Nine Americans out of ten say they believe in God and 40% go to church regularly....
How has the rise of "militant Islam" affected politics in Indonesia?
Essay - 5 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
Although nearly 90% of Indonesian population is Muslim, Islam and Islamic issues have not become central subjects of interest permeating Indonesian politics. In the past, Islam in Indonesia has usually been portrayed as moderate, pluralist and tolerant in contrasts to parts of the Middle East ....
Contemporary Islam and the Challenge of History, by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Book review - 3 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
People have started to develop an interest in the history of Islam and famous Muslim personalities. This interest is the impact of the Islamic need for "dignity, identity and purpose? amid the unprecedented domination of another civilization which questions the perception Muslims have of...
Comparison between Confucianism and Islam in terms of Knowledge of the Sacred - publié le 30/03/2007
Essay - 4 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
Confucianism, the second major religion in China, is a religion that really caught my attention among all the religions studied in the comparative religion class. It is exceptional for the reason that it emphasizes on a single man, Confucius, who actually created a religious belief from Chinese...
Is Islam an obstacle to democracy?
Essay - 20 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
‘On my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention', Tocqueville reports in Democracy in America. Even though religion cannot be considered formally as a part of the American political system, Tocqueville depicts it as the...
Religion and Nation - The State of Northern Ireland
Essay - 15 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
The Northern Ireland conflict has been a topic of discussion for the last 30 years. Due to the long history of this conflict, and the numerous influences for an independent Northern Ireland, a solution has been held as nearly impossible for a long time. Undoubtedly, the differences in religion...
The Vanguard of Islamic Revolution by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr
Worksheets - 4 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
Being an avid debater regarding Islamic revivalism and owing to incomplete consensus' regarding studies in the concerned subject, S.V.R. Nasr tries to cover the voids that have been left unattended. Furthermore, he establishes that Islamic revivalism is far from representing a monolithic unit...
