In Huston Smith's "The World Religions," he purports that there are currently two conflicting schools of religious theory. ... Confucius decided not to focus on matters of metaphysical importance in his discussions, though he was well-known for his ability to converse as deeply as Socrates, because he felt that things of that nature would not be applicable to his teachings. ... I believe that this method of teaching leaves far too many gaps when it comes to matters of deeper questions about life and focuses too heavily of the physical world to be classified under the banner of religion. ...

• Word Count: 1904
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The First Amendment was fomed out of the need to seperate Church and state, and religious communication became a focus. ... This became the focus of the Second Great Awakening, which was composed of three "theaters", or parts, in order to tackle these problems. ... this apparent lack of religion, faith adn morality gave way to a re-assessment of the current religious practices, which consequently became stricter. ...

• Word Count: 749
• Approx Pages: 3

Written and directed by Majid Majidi, not only does this film present a easily understood and emotional plot but it also contains numerous subtle commentaries on important factors varying from Islam to Iranian culture and finally to direct critiques of the current Iranian administration. ... A great deal of the movie focused on nature and mans' interactions with it, especially water. ... On the other hand, the father, representative of the current Iranian state, cared nothing for the birds, turtles or water until his son, representative of the nation's future, was drowning and by t...

• Word Count: 1998
• Approx Pages: 8

Page 295 Living Religions His early followers were people with very little hope from their government or the current Judaism religion. ... It focused strongly on how much the Lord loved his people, and forgave everyone no matter what the sin, if they truly asked for forgiveness. ... He sent Jesus as a messenger of his word and as a person that would straighten out the path of the current religion. ...

• Word Count: 1123
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

To begin our discussion, we'll focus first on Hinduism. ... Buddhism still focuses on suffering and evil, and that you must get beyond this to achieve the ultimate state. ... Dissimilar to earlier confucianism, current belief holds that there is no real appreciation for a monotheistic god. ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Muslim children are taught or forced in to submitting to God and when all focus of Baghdad is on the leader, the impression of a God-like figure is etched, branded on the brains of the children; and when ten years down the line (when the children are young adults) he or she will do anything that is demanded of them from Iraq. ... If you teach someone how to survive rather than "spoon-feeding" a fix for the current problem, things that were once a problem dissipate. ... A revamped United Nations would consist of counsels focusing attention on educating the masses of what is happening in his o...

• Word Count: 1712
• Approx Pages: 7

Ibn Taymiyya would find many problems with Qadhi's current stance on many of his issues. He would criticize Qadhi's overarching focus on the western world and his heavy efforts in modernizing the religion of Islam in accordance with the time period. ... His manners of activism and focus on politics stray from "typical Salafi behavior, but it is something many scholars and followers have constantly fought over, as there is no blanket understanding among the group."...

• Word Count: 1668
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Media gives us the opportunity to hear someone else's opinion halfway across the world where as before, we would have been naive to the beliefs and current events of other nations. ... The American media tends to focus on the more unsavory aspects of religions that are not Protestant Christianity. ... It tends to focus on the violent extremist and give the impression that all Islamic people are violent and homicidal. ...

• Word Count: 1582
• Approx Pages: 6

But Zia's Islamization program focused on the social role of the urban female and this was named "chadar and chardiwari" program which soon became the slogan of the advancing forces of Zia's ideologies... Secondly Shariah Law itself has not yet been codified to the extent that it could replace the entire bulk of the English civil and criminal law currently in practice in Pakistan...

• Word Count: 1014
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Spanish Muslim traveler and geographer Ibn Jubayr's (Doc #1) description of Damascus as a highly honored, blessed, and heavenly city of Allah where Jesus and Mary took refuge in reflects the city's importance in Islam culture as a religious sacred site, which shows that Muslim cities during the Post-Classical Age strengthened Islam by attributing its current prosperity to the blessings of Allah and the alleged arrival of saints. ... Italian merchant Marco Polo's (Doc #5) picture of another prosperous city on the trade route, Tabriz, focuses more on the trading activities happ...

• Word Count: 1294
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate

Miami is known for its diversity. We share different nationalities, culture, and religion. I am currently majoring in international relations focusing in the Middle East. The Middle East is a hot topic and seems to always be in the media, but I believe the media has created a different interpretatio...

• Word Count: 1290
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Prejudice of the Islamic faith is continuously growing as many Americans refrain from widening their education and understanding of the difference between the terrorists and perfectly humane members of the Muslim culture. Beginning with the terrorist attacks of 9/11, many Americans are quick to accu...

• Word Count: 1991
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Kurds are an ethnic group spanning across Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Armenia, Georgia and, Azerbaijan. Culture is something that we create, a system of knowledge that we use to survive and satisfy basic needs, we use it to adapt and communicate to other members of our culture and finally, to understand each other. There are five main parts to culture, Language, Marriage, Family, Art, and Religion. Language is a system of public knowledge used to send and receive precise messages that are understood by both the sender and receiver, and can be written or spoken. Marriage is the socia...

• Word Count: 5728
• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School

The people of these societies believed that the golden age was in the past, that the next generation might be likely to have less than the current one, and education should be focused not on new inventions and moving forward, but hanging on to what now exists. ...

• Word Count: 3937
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School