Essays on Religion

There are many historical festivals and holy days in the Islamic culture that have been a continuous tradition for many years. Many dates back to the time of Muhammad, the Islamic Prophet who was appointed as Prophet by Allah. These festivals and holy days are...

The film Fire presents an overlapping framework of different issues involving the myths and reality of lesbianism and lesbian desire, sexual preferences and freedom of expression, and the symbolic significance of women’s bodies and chastity for Indian culture and tradition. These invoked issues make up...

The Chosŏn society was one in which patriarchal family order was imposed based on Confucian ideology. After the Fifteenth century, women faced more social constraints as Neo-Confucianism, which was emphasized even more rigid Confucian ideals, prevailed as the sole dominant system of social governance. In...

The Catholic Church has many concerns with the world of pornography. In studying the influence of pornography, the Catholic Church tends to discuss the definition of pornography, what the concerns the Catholic Church has with it, the impact it has and how we can help...

Over our school’s fall break, I visited San Antonio, Texas. While there, I noticed that the city had a rich cultural heritage deeply rooted in history, and was intrigued by the brief history presented to me when I visited the Alamo or the Mission San...

On September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks forever changed the relationship between Muslim Americans and the general American public. The event not only impacted the lives and families of those killed, but it also affected the perception of all Muslim Americans. On that fateful day, four...

Nepal is the Federal Democratic Republic, situated in the Himalayas and between India and China in the south Asian region of the world. Nepal is a small developing country with a land area of about 147,516 km² but rich with a multi-lingual, multicultural, multi-ethnic, and...

Napoleon Bonaparte once said that “it is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.” Matthew Shepard was a mere nineteen years old when two men brutally beat him and tied him to a prairie fence simply because he was gay. He eventually died...

John Stuart Mill was a British philosopher that was very much so interested in political views and being a civil servant. His views consisted of a mixture of many philosophers in the past, yet with his own complexity that made it Mill’s. He took ideas...

Identity serves as an important aspect of one’s life because it provides a way to define oneself and give one a sense of purpose. Many different facets make up a person’s identity, such as race, gender, or religion. In Eve Sedgwick’s “Queer and Now,” she...

Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam and it is a pilgrimage that should be made at least once during a Muslim’s lifetime. The pilgrimage starts and ends in the holy city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia. It always takes place from the 8th to...

During the first two years of World War II, the United States stayed neutral. The U.S. was debating whether they should help their allies or they should stay out of it. The majority of Americans wanted to stay out of the war due to the...

“He has come to be seen as a trustworthy, intelligent, and above all accessible representative of a theologically and culturally attractive vision of the Christian faith”. What pain, trials, and tribulation did C.S. Lewis have to endure on his journey to be seen as a...

‘The Book of Margery Kempe’ is thought to be one of the first autobiographies of women in English. It is about a middle-class woman called Margery Kempe, who lived from around 1373 and 1440, and her journey dedicating her life to God. Throughout her transition...

Introduction Confucianism is the core value of Chinese society and profoundly influenced many other Asian countries like Japan and Korea. However, it also has a reputation for its repressive and degrading attitude toward women and for its history of the women-oppressive practice. The Confucianism we...

Background information Pakistan culture represents the millennial generation. Pakistan came into existence to provide its people with a way of life based on Islam. Our ancestors came from India. The people of Pakistan are Muslims or at least follow Islamic traditions and Islamic ideals. Most...

The story of David comes from the first book of Samuel chapter seventeen in the Old Testament of the Bible. It is about a young man named David, who is brave enough to take on this terrible giant, named Goliath. Goliath is a great Philistine...

For the religious site visit, I visited the Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church in Claremont, California. I am Episcopalian, only being baptized when I was young but other than that I am not that religious. I was nervous about observing and participating in...

With the introduction of Buddhism in 522 A.D., Shinto became much like the majority of religions that were prevailant in this era, a patriarchal institution with patriarchal ideologies. Along with religion, so came Chinese culture and ideologies where a woman could never and should never...