... greatest gifts (Leininger & McFarland, 2002). The Bride's status in the husband's household is unstable until she proves that she is fertile and gives birth to their first baby. After the first child is born, there is pressure to have a second child in case the first child would die. ... hospital they expect immediate attention. Because of their expectation of immediate care, many healthcare providers label them as "demanding patients" (Kridli, 2001). The birth experience is considered a female affair for Muslim families. The husbands" participation during labor and delivery is not expe...

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... by these rules they are exempt from prayer, fasting and the mosque when they are (haydh) menstruating and 40 days after they have given birth. Not for reasons of sympathy but rather because women are seen as impure and unholy during these times. Some may claim that these are advantages ... This is the question that has not been addressed in depth. Muslims women have had many restrictions placed on them even in a social aspect. Directly from birth women were seen as shameful. Some use to bury their girls alive. Muhammad forbade this crime and considered it murder, "and when the female (in...

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... a great mystery to the Stone Age man. As a result, the thunder was explained by numerous men-invented stories. The stories evolved into beliefs that gave birth to religions. Religion is a set of beliefs, attitudes, and practices . Ancient people evolved separately, and each of the ancient civilizations developed their own religion. ... . The Christian meaning of life comes from the Bible, which is the word of God. "The day of death is better than the day of birth." 4 Jesus says in the New Testament: "I have the key from hell and death." The Christian values are expressed in the belief t...

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... Islamic people. The Christian community believes in Gabriel, the angel that brought the message of Jesus's birth to Mary. The Qur" anic account of the annunciation of Mary and the birth of Jesus (Isa). The description of the story is quite different. Muslims accept the virgin birth of Jesus by Mary but deny the divinity of Jesus. Central to Christianity are the belifs ... ...

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... doctrine. Karma is the law of cause and effect through which each individual can create their own destiny by their thoughts, words, and deeds. Reincarnated and evolving through cycles of birth and death are constant until all karmas have been resolved and moksha, or spiritual knowledge and liberation from the constant cycle, has been attained. Not one should will be eternally ... the prophet of Islam that founded Mohammedanism. He was born at Mecca supposedly on the 20th of August, 570 A.D. Warring tribes were tearing up Arabia at the time of his birth. Fihr, or Quarish, the tribe that ...

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... B.C. The Middle East was the first place where these two religions gained followers as well as credibility. However, Christianity was not dubbed a separate religion from Judaism until around 5 B.C with Jesus" birth. Until this separation, however, the term known by scholars as Judeo-Christianity was used to describe these religions. The Middle East is the back drop for the most important and ... it did indeed affect others like the English. Therefore this is something that allows the ancient Middle East to stand out. The diversity of religions and the birth of Judaism which led to the l...

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... to further technological development? However, Christianity had been helping science along before the time of clergymen. It appears it has stimulated scientific growth since the birth of the religion itself. During Christianity's Childhood Years Before the birth of Christianity there existed many polytheistic religions that were widely practiced. These pagan religions did not have very organized practices and were, quite frankly, usually ... had rules in itself that could be discovered and explained. This is ultimately what science is and does for humans is explain how the world works. ...

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A living religious system is a religion that is interwoven with the everyday lives of its Followers. Islam is constructed as a living religious system, through Shari"a Law, birth, marriage, Funerary Rites, the Five Pillars, women's duties and food codes. Through these aspects, it is depicted that For Muslims religion is not something set apart from daily life, but ... suffer from illness. Such practices are derived from the Qur"an and portray the interweaving of religion in Muslim everyday life. Birth, marriage and Funerary Rites of Muslims are also ways that depict how Islam is a constructe...

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... thing and faith is not just an intellectual thing, both are spiritual. Judaism does not accept the notion of original sin or the idea that all people are evil from birth and need the sacrificial death of Jesus as atonement for all of humanity's sins. The Jewish view is that humans are not naturally good or bad and have the free ... help people fulfill their religious duties. . The only way salvation can be achieved is through Jesus. Christianity brought the promise of everlasting life. With Christ, "death becomes an event, like birth that is lived through."" After Jesus ascended into he...

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... Kshatriyas or warriors and rulers, then the Vaisya or merchants. Last are the Shudra, laboring class. Outside the caste system are the untouchables or outcaste. One's caste is determined at birth by his or her own personal Karma. There is very little in common with Hinduism and Christianity. Hinduism lacks any understanding that God created this world for a good purpose. It ... the end of suffering in this life on earth or in the spiritual life. This is through Nirvana, which is a transcendent state free from suffering and our worldly cycle of birth and rebirth. The Fourth Noble Truth c...

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... 610, the first of many revelations came to Muhammad from God by way of the angel Gabriel (In Christianity this is the same Angel which brings the news of Jesus' birth, Jesus of course is the founder of Christianity). The message Muhammad received told him that there was but one God (Identical to the inception of the Ten Commandments), not many ... , one of the two major festivals that are celebrated during the Islamic year. Christianity does not require such a pilgrimage, but most Christians indirectly have the need to visit Jerusalem, the birth place of Jesus. most Christians consider i...

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... resulting from lack of surgical expertise, urine retention caused by swelling and inflammation, chronic infections of bladder and vagina, excessive scar tissue, formation of cysts on the stitch line, child birth obstruction, and the risk of HIV infection (World Health Organization, 2000)." The origins of female circumcision are relatively unknown. "It existed before the beginning of Christianity and Islam. It is ... of Human Rights defines human rights as in inherent dignity of every human person that is inalienable and imprescriptible (UN, 1994). Furthermore, human rights are defined a...

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... changes occurred. It got to the point that some followers of Zoroasterianism began to worship Zoroaster himself. Over time, the stories of Zoroaster's life were exaggerated until things like his birth and the curing of Vishtaspa's horse became legends in themselves. Another glaring change that occurred was that Zoroastrianism became less monotheistic. One example is that of the spirit Mithra. Zoroaster ... exactly. In conclusion Zoroaster, Jesus, and Muhammad were completely different men from completely different backgrounds, however comparisons can be concluded. Muhammad and Zoroaster...

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... prevents adultery, an act so serious, it can be punishable by death. The truth of the matter is that monogamy protects men, allowing them to "play around" without responsibility. Easy birth control and easy legal abortion has opened the door of illicit sex to woman and she has been lured into the so-called sexual revolution. But she is still the ... one who suffers the trauma of abortion and the side effects of the birth control methods. Taking aside the plagues of venereal disease, herpes and AIDS, the male continues to enjoy himself free of worry. Men are the ones protected by monogam...

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... ; Mahatma Gandhi's successful fight for Indian independence from the British, wielding only the Hindu principle of ahimsa (civil disobedience). An even better example is that of Mother Theresa, Albanian by birth, who, despite her strong Christian affiliation, was able to successfully take care of millions of Hindu India's poor. Above all, religion has the capability to unit a people; unfortunately, as there ... ) the primary waves of Islamic Jihad, and the growth of the Ottoman Empire, which caused serious religious imbalances especially in the Balkans which consequences erupted in the la...

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... have the most followers. The shaykh is the human emulation of the prophet Muhammad. He acts and does what he believes the prophet would do. A mawlid is a celebration of the birth of the prophet and many saints. Some mawlids are large events and some are low-key affairs. The size of the celebration depends upon the popularity of who is being ... have the most followers. The shaykh is the human emulation of the prophet Muhammad. He acts and does what he believes the prophet would do. A mawlid is a celebration of the birth of the prophet and many saints. Some mawlids are large events and s...

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... village to village. In Mecca, there was a common meeting place where all the deities met and the people believed that with the common meeting, they were all protected. With the birth of Islam, one common god was created for all of the residents to worship. This created unity thought the tribes and made them all under the same God. This singular ... god angered many of the tribes because they believed harm would come to them by supporting a new god. With the birth of Islam in the Arab world, Muhammad decided to work to destroy all the holy places devoted to the deities other than Allah. ...

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... the Qur"an For women, Islam is a special blessing; and the Prophet of Islam is indeed the greatest single benefactor of womenfolk. In Arabia, before the advent of Islam, the birth of a female child was regarded as a great misfortune and a shame, and cruel fathers buried them alive: "When news is brought to one of them of (the ... birth) of a female (child), his face darkens, and he is filled with inner grief. With shame does he hide himself from his people, because of the bad news he has had. ... ...

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... bad karma leading to grief and further suffering and rebirths to wash off those effects. 16. A goal of Hindus is to achieve Moksha, to be freed from the cycle of birth and death (when the "good" and the "bad" karmas balance.) or reach Swarga, the abode of the Divine Soul or Paramatma [God] to serve at His feet. Christianity He was ... be no forgiveness, no peace, no hope. Long before Jesus was born the Bible predicted his life and death. The Old Testament (the part of the Bible written before Jesus' birth) was completed in 450 B.C., hundreds of years before Jesus was born. A large numbe...

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... menstruating woman as a Niddah that means withdrawal. If a man has touched a 'Notorious by Day' Untouchable, a menstruating woman, anyone who has fallen (from his caste), a woman who has just given birth, a corpse, or anyone who has touched any of these objects, he can be cleaned by a bath (Manu 5.85). Anthropologists have offered a lot of investigations about taboos. Their investigations are crucial ... ...

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... cultural expansion.17 In telling these stories, they show how the Jews became liberated and how a new culture was formed. In the Bible, the retelling of Moses begins with his birth and the Pharaoh's decree to send all newborn Hebrew boys down the Nile River.18 With Moses's descent down the Nile the Pharaohs daughter found his basket. Returning him back ... ...

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... Hala Fattah writes in his work " 'Wahhabi Influences, Salafi Responses: Shaikh Mahmud Shukri and the Iraqi Salafi Movement, 1745–1930", "trans regional impulses governing the birth and later development of Wahhabism were instrumental in, on the one hand, reinvigorating an early Islamic tradition Salafi Islam that was beginning to attract a regional audience once more in late ... ...

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... from it." (Culver 358). The writer would then agree with Culver when he said, "[D]ecisions made about the innate condition of human beings-such decisions aswhether innocent at birth or 'conceived in sin,' whether guilty of Adam's transgression or guilty only of personal transgression consciously performed, whether culpable for a corrupt nature of only unfortunate, whether with a free will ... ...

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... the Gothic style, which became the most popular style in Europe during 16 C.E. A great example of the Gothic style is the Notre Dame in Paris, France. This building is the birth of Gothic architecture in Europe. The entrance has the same type of arches as the mosque of the Cordoba mosques. Also like many Islamic mosques, the Notre Dame windows are ... ...

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... of the prophet Muhammad, and the true intentions of Allah. Views on particular topics involving women, such as education, employment opportunities, rights to inheritance, dress, age of marriage, permissibility of birth control, divorce, property rights independent of her husband, driving, and many others have been varied pertaining to the particular region or culture that has adopted it. Female education has been ... ...

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