“What happens to me in death?”, and other questions pertaining to the afterlife are common in the study of religion. There have been many versions of what the afterlife entails, but no singular conclusive concept of it. This lack of consensus calls into question our...
In this essay, I am going to decipher if psychoanalytical thought can aid theological thought in wishing to offer an answer to human suffering and help followers of Christianity escape a life of hopelessness. I will assess if Freud’s clinical psychoanalysis could save humans from...
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...
‘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...
Since I was little, the first values my parents tried to instill into my brother and me were that of Christianity–and for most of my childhood, I was content adhering to these beliefs. It wasn’t until my disaster at Carnegie Hall that I began to...
God is at work in the world to defeat and get the rid the world of the tragic sin of mankind. All of mankind are sinners from the time Adam and Eve broke God’s command not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good...
A Tunisian proverb says, “There is no blindness but the blindness of the heart.” And another American proverb adds, “None are so blind as those who refuse to see.” Even amid the greatest sorrow, there is always a cause for joy. From the darkest night...
When a person is pessimistic about the world and loses trust in everything, how can he save himself? Maybe becoming Zen is a way for people to seek peace and get personal enlightenment from it. This is what the author Morinaga chose. Morinaga changes during...
For thousands of years, God has been taken as an unquestionable given. Even today, many intelligent philosophers jump through hoops to preserve as much of the Judeo-Christian depiction of God as possible in a way that is compatible with their argument. The modified divine command...
Catholic Social Thought Milburn defines Catholic Social Thought (CST) as the expansive religious and communal observation on the civil concerns that occurs in the church. The Catholic Church developed the CST to support some ideals and morals that should guide human behavior. Out of the...
With the increased specialized role and responsibilities of individuals in society, Durkheim was interested in what holds society together. He provides an answer by developing a theoretical framework around two types of social solidarity and its relationship with systems of law. Societies with mechanical solidarity...
This essay will demonstrate one similarity and two differences between Buddhism and Islam’s belief of the concept of the afterlife/next life. For example, both belief in reaching the end of one’s life (i.e., for Muslims, one will reach either heaven or hell and for Buddhists,...
Religion has been an important influence on humanity for a very long time, so much so that our definitions for morality and divinity are religious in nature. However, an argument opposing morality by divine command states: “If actions are right because God commands them, and...
Reincarnation is a concept regarding the rebirth of a soul in another body. Reincarnation is present as a central principle in the Druze religion, in which the human soul can only be reborn in another human body. The purpose of reincarnation is presented in the...
Yoruba can refer to the ethnic group that resided in Yorubaland, a cultural region within Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, in West Africa. It can also refer to the language that many of the inhabitants speak within that region. The use of the word Yoruba in...
David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is a most distinctive work of conceptual fiction. Superficially it is a combination of six stories written in a palindromic structure, each story told using different narrative methods with protagonists varying in the time period, nationality, and sex. Arguably, the readers...
