Essays on Religion Page 14

Topic: What is the significance of the Aligarh movement for the revival o the Muslims of the subcontinent and why Sir Syed Ahmed Khan advised the Muslims to avoid active politics. To understand the significance of the Aligarh movement let us have a glance at the background of the Aligarh Movement Background: Indian authority was…

How are gender roles learned? Gender itself refers to the socially constructed attributions that a given society considers appropriate for men and women and the outward expressions of what society considers “masculine” or “feminine. ” In many ways, gender, in response to changing generational attitudes and societal norms and expectations, is neither innate nor necessarily…

Centuries ago the world of traveling over sea was something un known to man. It was seen as crazy because only the bravest of brave did it. The reasons were because you put your life and health at risk. The possibilities of dying were too high, and most just didn’t travel over sea because of…

                                                     Roots of Wisdom             Claus Westermann concentrates and focuses mainly on the Bible that deals particularly with the book of Proverbs 10-31 and he easily demonstrates how this educational literature of wisdom came to be books of poetry that had so much that gained the interest of individuals who read the passages in…

William Penn, born on the 14th of October 1644, is best known for the founding of the state of Pennsylvania. He was born into a dissenting family, meaning they were basically rebels, and as he grew older he became more and more involved in Quakerism.He was the son of a distinguished English Admiral, Sir William…

It is apparent in our class readings, that when the gods are angry at the humans they created, these gods unleash unforgiving rains to flood the earth, and kill the human race. Over the years, there have been various texts about these floods. While the occurrences of the floods themselves are continuous throughout these texts,…

“I shall mention some things that are necessary… The first of these is love for one another; the second is detachment from all created things; the third is true humility… all must be friends, all must be loved, all must be held dear, all must be helped,” said Saint Teresa of Avila. A Doctor of…

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man of recent generations who can be considered a modern-day prophet based on a wide variety of criteria. This can be seen in his “I Have a Dream” speech given at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. To start off, in this speech, he pulled illustrations of his…

  At the core of Buddhist teachings are the Four Noble Truths.  He taught that life is suffering; all suffering is caused by ignorance of the nature of reality; suffering can be ended.  The path to the suppression of suffering is the Noble Eightfold Path, which consists of right views, right intention, right speech, right…

The indigenous people of Africa displayed various responses to the European Scramble for Africa. Their primary objective was to resist colonization, which they expressed through conflict, religion, or social/political behavior. The African people followed a pattern similar to Newton’s first law of motion: an object at rest remains at rest until it is influenced by…