How important a pilgrimage centre was Cyprus from Late Antiquity down to the late medieval period?
Course material - 6 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
The concept of pilgrimage grew progressively during the early Christian times and Late Antiquity. In the early Christian times, Christianity, deviating from Judaism, had to find a way to distinguish itself from it. In Judaism, the idea of pilgrimage was not exactly conceptualized. The Jews had a...
The "Sondergut" of the Gospel of Luke
Book review - 7 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
Luke; Syrian, Gentile, physician and companion of Paul (Col 4:14; Phm 2:23-24; Tm 4:1), addressed his two-volume work—the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles—to “Theophilus” (in Greek: one who loves God, Lk 1:3) and, through it, especially the Gentile Christians. In addition...
Is faith compatible with doubt in Buddhism and Judaism?
Essay - 3 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
It is common to hear people speak of a religious man as a “man of faith”, as if faith and religion were two synonyms. It is true that speaking of a person's religion assumes speaking of their faith, the degree at which they believe in their religion. However, faith is not the only...
The "New Age" trend
Essay - 3 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
The New Age is both difficult to qualify and describe historically. It is a spiritual movement neither recognized as a cult nor as a religion. The New Age is a form of alternative spirituality which is influenced by many practices like Buddhism, Esoterism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Taoism,...
Essai sur les musulmans (2010)
Essay - 1 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
Due to recent terrorist events in the United States, people of this country view terrorism and Islam in the same light. Moreover, with the mass of information spread out through the Medias, people around the world tend to associate terrorism and its origination with the Islamic religion. There is...
Religion and society
Essay - 2 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
For centuries, religions have directed our lives and even controlled our thoughts; they have been close to power for years, and in the name of God, people who directed it got rich and powerful. Firstly, let's get back to Middle Ages. At this time, religions were widespread, everyone feared...
Paradise regained: quakerism and female equality
Essay - 8 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
Saint Paul instructed women to remain silent; the anatomical difference of their hips led Luther to assert that women should stay at home and bear children; kings and Parliaments trapped them at home to perform their household duties. Nevertheless, Quaker women were out on the streets seizing...
Equality in Church in the Quaker Community
Essay - 9 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
Just as spiritual warriors had dismantled the contemporary conception of women's social position and rights, Quaker women set out to take the divine by storm. Indeed the Quaker concept of equality also applied to women in church. It was thus considered that they had the same right as their...
Women Under Restraint: Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England
Essay - 7 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
Religious beliefs were a fundamental part of life in early modern England; virtually everyone believed in a Christian God. The rise of the printing press allowed a new translation of the Bible, the Authorized King James Version of 1611 to fertilize households with biblical knowledge. The Bible...
Quakers and the Concept of Equality
Essay - 8 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
The Civil War was a gateway for women's entrance into the public area. As a result of the shortage of men due to the conflict, women were increasingly needed to preserve the society. Never before had women found access to such opportunities for contribution. For this reason, woman's...
Quaker Women's Mission: Into the Public Sphere
Essay - 7 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
Women played a conspicuous role in disseminating the Quaker message. Ecstatic when lost in their sense of oneness with the divine, they spoke and acted when the Lord moved them. They endured many hardships to enlighten people and accomplished the most remarkable deeds trying to help people. Yet,...
Symbols and religions
Book review - 2 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
This essay is based on C.R.Hallpike's work on "Social Hair? and Sherry B.Ortner's work "On Key Symbols?. The 1960s and 1970s were a period of important changes in anthropological studies. Most anthropologists react to Marxism and structuralism by changing their conception of their role....
The functions of religion in societies
Book review - 1 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
This essay is based on Malinowski's work "The role of Magic and Religion? and that of Evans Pritchard "Witchcraft explains unfortunate events?. Both Malinowski's and Evans Pritchard's works take part in the debate on the function of religion in societies and for individuals. Both...
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 analysis - 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 analysis - 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
Study guide - 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
Study guide - 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...
