Essays on Spirituality

Throughout Ondaatje’s novel Anil’s ghost, there are a multitude of allusions to an underlying theme of the struggle between the spiritual world and the physical. Ondaatje does a fantastic job in weaving these two world views into the singular perspective of the reader; it seems...

The New Spirituality is not meant that people are non-religious, or they started decreasing the faith in God. In a survey, it is found that 80% of people still believe in God, soul or afterlife. There’s just a change of faith: “I’m spiritual, not religious”....

In James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain, religion functions not only as form of worship but also as a covert site of sexual expression. In the novel’s opening chapters, Baldwin often characterizes religious worship in language that borders on the erotic. This undermines...

Thomas Aquinas, one of the most influential theologians of his time, deals with many hotly contested topics regarding the nature of God and God’s dealings with mankind in Summa Theologica. In the fifth question of Part IIIa, Aquinas discusses Christ’s assumption of a human nature....

How do religious people react to feelings when someone suffers from death or are dissatisfied with life? There may be some people who are really depressed and dissatisfied with the life because of the sufferings that always exist from time to time. In this case,...

First thing to understand about demons and other spirits is that they don’t fully exist in the mortal realm. That is, without help they do not have a truly corporeal form. We, on the other hand, do. This for us is a key advantage when...

A brief resume about Eastern religions and their view is risky to make them less than fair. If you feel offended, be assured that no such intentions are intended. The purpose is to show that spiritual pain is not limited to people from Western Jewish-Christian...

Multiple studies have shown the effects of using meditation to improve mental, physical, and emotional health. Though mindfulness-based stress reduction, which in turn improved health-related quality of life. What is meditation, you might ask? Meditation is the process of learning to work with the mind....

Reverend Hale comes to Salem in response to a crisis in the town. He is the “spiritual doctor” summoned to evaluate Salem during this unusual crisis. His job is to diagnose witchcraft if it is present, and then provide a necessary cure through repentance and/or...

‘Some religious texts seem to find it relatively easy to disengage from the material world. Many more, however, derive their dynamism from the difficulty of doing so.’ ‘Behold not the earth, but lift your eye up’, [30] Mercy sermonizes in the opening of Mankind, one...