Essays on Religion Page 10

            Recognized as one of the foremost black writers of the 1920s, Richard Wright remains in the consciousness of America through his words and his works.  In his book entitled, Native Son, Richard Wright explores the theme of being a black man living in the early 20s and how it is to deal with the…

Introduction Freud believes that religion has played a great part in the making of societies. In his earlier writing, “The future of an illusion,” he regards religion as an illusion, which is equivalent to atheism. He then comes to the conclusion that the idea of God and the religious teachings are some of human being’s…

Sunar Hindi: “Goldsmith”, alterately Sonar or Swarnkar) is a Hindu caste in India referring to the community of people who work as goldsmiths. Sunars of Hindu origin are found ethnically in many religions such as Islam, Sikhism, Buddhism, Christianity, Atheists and more. Typically a subclan found within the Rajput clan/tribe. This caste is found in…

Science and religion are two subjects that have been in conflict since the begging of time, well more, since when modern science came to be so influential. Religion on the other hand has been around much longer; it has grown to be so dominating that most people today believe in some type of “religion” and…

The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis, is a book that deals with human natureand Christian faith. It takes a view on human nature from the devilsperspective. The book is in form of a collection of letters written by Screwtapeaddressed to his nephew, Wormwood. The letters are advises to Wormwood on how tolure his patient to…

“ … the Druses who worship the Gold Calf … ” Robert E. Howard, “Three-Bladed Doom” It must have been nice, in some ways, to write for the pulps in the old days. You certainly didn’t have to worry about being tactful to minorities or foreigners. Or primitive people. If you wanted horrible villains with…

The dhamma is prakrit form of the sanskrit word dharma. However, ashoka tried to use it in a much wider sense. Scholars have expressed different opinions regarding dhamma of ashoka. Some are of the view that his dhamma is nothing more than buddhism others feel that it was not a particular religious system but a…

In sanctify kingdoms of literature, an epic trip expects, veiled in allegoric power and aethereal poetry. Doing a search, to decipher deep values, I am brought over to the labyrinth of verses, searching the elusive true hidden down surface of the opus of winy large bottle of Dante. As I am dug deeper in enigmatic…

As civilization has expanded and improved it has gone through many different religions. Some of the most interesting and different have been the Mesopotamian religion, the religion of the Greeks and finally Christianity. These three religions were practiced in different areas and different time periods and therefore they will be excellent for a comparison. Religion…

Religion beliefs of one sort or another are present in every known society but their variety seems to be endless and it is therefore difficult to produce a broad definition. Two main approaches that look at religion can be used though and these are the Marxist and Functionalist theories. All definitions emphasize certain aspects of…