World Religions Essay Examples and Topics

Sufficient knowledge regarding the history and the fundamental values of Hinduism may be the key to sharing Christ with Hindus. Therefore, it is closely linked with the concept of Karma, and Hindus strive to achieve [...]

This novel has depicted the conservatism and narrow-mindedness of the Brahmin community based on the rise and fall of Praneshacharya, the protagonist.

Every Islam in the world is expected to follow the five pillars of Islam, which is the foundation of religion for the Muslim life.

The construction of the first great temple by Solomon made the Jews to focus the worship of God in the temple.

This commandment is inflexible and forms the basis of the faith of the Christians in the continuation and existence of one God.

On the concept of the deity, Christians believe in the trinity which encompasses three persons in one God, that is, the God the father, the son and the Holy Spirit.

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy defines Sufism as "a variety of Muslim mysticism characterized by the concept of a union of the human being with God through the power of love.

The introduction and spread of Buddhism in Japan depended on the support that was offered by the Japanese rulers. Japanese Buddhist art has relied heavily on the Chinese art since the introduction of Buddhism in [...]

Sociologically, the affiliation to a given religion helps in the stabilization of the society as morality is observed in the society.

The practice of omnism has been in here for a while, but the definition of the term is quite young. In Japan, an omnism religion is called Kokyo was formed in the 1800s, and the [...]

Gwynne notes the similarity among the Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is the existence of a Supreme Authority. They also believe that the Supreme Authority is the Creator, The Father of all and the [...]

In accordance with the tradition of Judaism, the 'will' of God shapes the behavior of humans and was disclosed to Moses and the people of Israel at Mount Saini.

In this regard, it is believed that communication coming from the other side of the veil, the spirit world, becomes manifest to the living in psychical phenomena, for instance, trance talks, telepathy and clairvoyance.

In Christianity, the Holy Trinity consists of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit while in Hinduism,the concept is analogous to Trimurti.

Muslims believe that Islam came from God and the prophet Mohammad is the last prophet; in the religion, there is a lot of emphasis on the meaning the religion, this portrays the religion as a [...]

The primary goal of the research is to find out whether Islam is orthodoxy or orthopraxy, comparing it to Christianity and exploring the pillars of both religions.

He was one of the first to tell people about hell and heaven, this world's dark and light beginnings, and the Day of Judgment.

Santeria is a religion that originated in West Africa and carried to other parts of the world by slaves during the height of slave trade in the 19th century.

Hindus, the last power is discovered in the Vedas and the writing of the religious leaders willing to view the fact nature of reality.

The aim of the current research is to assess the religion and spirituality of the Maya people. In addition, the Maya were still religious and practiced various cultural activities that were unique to them.

Childhood and the naming ceremony: Just after the birth of the baby, parents go to the gurudwara with the baby where Guru Granth Sahib is opened and a random reading is done.

Additionally, in the African religions, the initiation and the rites of passage ceremonies were also used to bring mature individuals to the spiritual world.

In order to correct these beliefs and practices, Christian pastors and missionaries should use the arguments from the Old and the New Testaments that condemn magic and sorcery and show the dangers of trying master [...]

The five tenets of Islam guide the faithful not to waver in their obedience to Allah. The Five Pillars of Islam are used to emphasize unity among the faithful and act in one voice.

Its recognition is therefore a sign of believing in the Holy Trinity of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Christians also believe in holy trinity, that is, the three personalities of God- the Father, the son and the Holy Spirit.

The three forms of deities allow Hindus to understand the nature of God and the universe. The social and religious life of a Hindu in the Dalit group is different from others.

And that is the first essential contribution to religion made by Zoroaster. He is a destructive spirit that brings illnesses, deaths, and all existing evil to the human world.

The renouncers, although they are restricted by their monastic vows in the role they may play in temple ritual, are none the less vociferous in providing, in print and in their sermons, powerful intellectual justifications [...]

Christianity and Islam have one of the main ways of the attitude and worldviews of God. Henceforth, for the Christian religion, there is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who form the concept [...]

Guru Amar Das was the next in line and served from the year 1552 to the year 1574. The sixth Guru went by the name Hargobind and served as Guru from the year 1644 to [...]

Radmacher argues that salvation is the delivery of humans from the bondage of sin and provision of eternal life. Another difference that exists between moksha and salvation is the nature of liberation.

In Christianity, it is believed that, the human soul enters heaven after going through the process of subjective perfection and not pure perfection as in Hinduism. Both religions believe in God who has the power [...]

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The most conspicuous similarity is the origin of the two religions in sub-continent India. Some worship and religious practices are similar but there is a profound difference in the style and purpose of life in [...]

The relevance of Jesus Christ in Christianity and Islam also proves to be a major area of divergence in the two religions.

One of the basic concepts in Indian philosophy: the soul, drowning in the "ocean of samsara," seeks liberation and deliverance from the results of its past actions, which are part of the "net of samsara".

The privileged persons of society such as presidents and the rich have similar chances in comparison to the destitute persons. Contrary to this, Christians appreciate the existence of God and acknowledge Him as their path [...]

The goal of the Mulsims' life is to follow the Five Pillars and regularly pray to Allah. The continuous cycle of death and rebirths in Hinduism is opposed to a single life of devotion in [...]

The value of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts boils down to the fact that the Gospel should not be understood in the context of itself.

This essay aims to describe the ideas of dharma in the religions of Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism in terms of their doctrines, rituals, origin tales, and modes of worship.

The remainder of the primary beliefs includes the divine origin of the Torah, its immutability, God's omniscience and providence, reward and punishment, the appearance of the Messiah, and the resurrection of the dead.

The three jewels of Buddhism which are the main ideals at the heart of Buddhism are together identified as the Three Jewels, or the Three Treasures.

In addition, the adherents of Islam are guided by the religious obligations which are outlined in the Five Pillars of Islam.

As such, those who identify with the two religions have continued to engage in practices of the Buddhist and Shinto faiths either knowingly or unknowingly.

Buddhists believe in a higher power and life after death, they have a moral code of ethics, and they perform rituals; these things are the definition of established religion.

The Roman church under the stewardship of the bishops and popes gradually diverged in beliefs and practices of the church of Constantinople, under the patriarch.

Comparing "In the footsteps of the prophet" by Tariq Ramadan with "The Truth about Muhammad" by Robert Spencer Ramadan is a Muslim leader and an intellectual whose book presents Muhammad's biography.

Masumian notes that the Baha'i concept of heaven and hell is in relation to the closeness or detachment from God. In contrast to this, the Baha'i faith declares that there is oneness of God and [...]

Drawing the parallels between the story and the historical background, Cheng'en attempts to represent the synthesis of three religions as the moral foundation for the Mind China people to adhere.

However, for other Christians who are non-Catholics, believe that Jesus is the spiritual head of the church. For instance, there is celibacy of the clergy in Catholics where the priests are not supposed to be [...]

The three religions believe that, God's communication to His people is made through prophets as illustrated in the holy books for the three religions, with Christianity, Judaism, and Islam believing in holy bible, Torah and [...]

And even following upon the emergence of ethical humanism and the humanist repudiation of many of the myths and practices of an earlier age, religious Taoism and certain forms of Buddhism, together with that product [...]

Jains believe in the cyclic nature of the universe, whereby the universe is considered to have only one cycle. Cosmologically, they believe that the universe is independent of supernatural forces and is thus thought to [...]

Confucianism is more a philosophical doctrine than a religion, and its connection with the East is strong due to the specifics of the Asian mentality.

Before the course, I thought Evangelism was restricted to presenting the gospel and testifying, but I could only share my testimony of what Christ had accomplished in my life. I bought a van with the [...]

On the basis of the aspect of free will, the determination of the laws of karma is not favoring to particular people as everyone is treated the same, and has the same opportunity for personal [...]

These are "the manifestation creation and the creator, the manifestation of survival and protection and the manifestation of extinction and transformation.

The main principle of foundation in Islam is iman, submission to God is the principle of Islam, the after life exists and the goal of the world life is to attain the afterlife.

The 19th and 20th centuries brought challenges and opportunities for Buddhism, as a religious sect, which underlined the need for change from an amorphous and disorganized outfit to the formation of institutions of governance and [...]

For instance, the majority of world's religions view the meaning of life as the way towards the salvation of the soul.

Buddhism and Hinduism are some of the popular religions in the world with their origins dating back to the Common Era in India.

Elshamsy states that the Sunni came about due to the belief that the appointment of the caliphate was a prerogative of the people and that the first four caliphs were supposed to be the successors [...]

According to Dien, the calligraphy of the Quran and the various rituals which are told to be put forwarded by Muhammad have been crucial for the spread of Islam to many parts of the world.

'Islam is a religion that has significantly influenced the history of the world and in the future, its impact will not decline. Therefore, during the time of Muhammad, Islam was one of the factors that [...]

For the book to remain systematic, Malik was asked to take the reign of the disciple Fiqh and compile the hadiths in Islamic prophetic teaching, reflecting his teachings from the past Islamic teachers.

Hinduism believers esteem the teachings of Karma and samsara, that is, the cycle of life, death, and reincarnation. Mercifulness is embraced as one of the critical teachings of the Hinduism religion.

It is essentially a temporary contract marriage, in which a man and a woman agree to assume the roles of husband and wife for a limited period.

Lame Deer shows the readers the intricacies of the native Indians culture through exploring the cultural and spiritual values of a native medicine man.

In Daoism, man is only part of the whole; he is part of the universe and his significance is not greater or less than that of everything else in it.

Therefore, the Baha'i religion encourages people to use their interest in understanding religion and the world, citing that true faith is compatible with reason. 2 It is appropriate to address the idea when witnessing both [...]

The combination of all these sources guided me to design a final response to the question and educate more Muslims and Christians about the measures they can apply in their lives to understand the nature [...]

Although water is a natural phenomenon or an element of the environment does not evoke any inexplicable associations in those who are incognizant of Taoism, in this Chinese teaching, water is a much more meaningful [...]

Primal religions, the religions of antiquity, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Jainism are all united by their understanding of religious meaning which the followers of these religions see in different rituals, as well as by the presence [...]

After the Korean War which took place between the year 1950 and 1953 a large number of the Korean Christians moved to the North but they later on fled to the South and by 1960 [...]

Shamanism is a series of conventional thinking and a practice that deals with the way people communicate with the spirit of the world.

It also involved the worship of heroic gods such as Indra which was quite similar to the religion practiced by the Greeks.

The concept of "emptiness" and "nothingness" is often mentioned and discussed in Zen philosophy. Together with the concept of ephemerality, Zen and Daoism explain that reality is conceived rather than seen.

The first noble truth in Buddhism teachings is the truth of suffering that is frequently referred to as Dukkha. The last interpretation of the Dukkha is the expression of suffering that is inevitable.

Helping to understand the way the Buddhist philosophy works, it can become a key to the Buddhist teaching and Buddhist vision of the world.

These doctrines of the Qur'an provided a chronology of events to show Muhammad and his followers the true way to God as well as reveal to them the stories of earlier prophets to whom God [...]

The Hindu religion also has some followers in the United Kingdom that amount to approximately 1% of the UK population; in the UK it developed in the 1960s and 1970s following the migration of people [...]

The validity of such statements is of great importance to Islamic historians who pay close attention to their transmission of Hadith.

This paper focuses on the lives of Monks and Nuns, the formation of Sangha and the acceptance of women in the order.

The Mahayana elaboration of this concept is unusual in that it uses the term "bodhisattva" to refer to anyone who has the desire to become a Buddha and does not require that this desire be [...]

The experiential dimension of religion refers to the meaning of its rituals provided by adepts' strong emotional experiences. Finally, the material dimension of religion refers to its specific places and artifacts.

The principal teachings of the religion are on enlightenment which is thought to be attained through a life of self-deprivation. Christianity is evident in the existence of one supreme being who is the creator of [...]

Hinduism, many believe, is not a religion; it is a way of life, a set of beliefs and traditions evolved over a period of time in the Indian subcontinent.

The religion set forth in the Zend-Avesta bases its teachings on the concept of struggle between good and evil. Once ranked as the most influential religions in the world, Zoroastrianism started fading during the turn [...]

Christianity is one of the many religious groups in the history of humanity and many believers in the US are affiliated to Christianity.

Samsara refers to the processor rebirth whereby the individual is reincarnated in a succession of lives. This is what has led to the many differences that arise, causing Buddhism to be viewed as a religious [...]

Therefore, the daily practice of the laws in the Torah is crucial to the Jewish religion. On the other hand, the Talmud is a compilation of the Mishnah and the Gemara.

God the father is the creator and sustainer of the universe, God the Son is the savior of humanity, while God the Holy Spirit is a spirit that guides humanity in the universe.

However, the New Covenant with the new life in salvation has got its benefits which include perpetual peace, love and joy."To know God in the present is to experience the life of the age to [...]

Vishnu is the most powerful of the three and is supposed to sustain the status quo. They are universally involved in the provision of rations and accommodation for the famished and destitute.

In fact, Islam is the name given to the religion while Muslim is used to refer to its followers. It is also the duty of Muslims to give alms to the poor and strive in [...]

Thus it is each individuals role to return the soul but this is not possible because of the sins and impurities one becomes exposed to once living in this world and since the process of [...]

The central concept of the Baha'i faith is the unity of God, humanity, and religion. The oneness of humankind is expressed in the Baha'i faith that the time has come for the world to become [...]

Hinduism and Christianity are respectively eastern and western religions that share few similarities and differences in terms of origins, core beliefs and doctrines, historical and geographic, and core rituals and practices.

In conclusion, Christianity was largely unsuccessful in Asia due to the presence of local religions, opposition from rulers, and aggressive behavior from countries that were seen as Christian.

This religion is based on the Vedas, hymns, and rituals written in Sanskrit and karma. The holy text is the Torah, and religion itself is based on moral norms of behavior.

Currently, no central authority exists in Shinto, and practitioners employ a diverse number of ways to practice their faith Though the exact date of the creation of Shinto is not known, the variation of the [...]

Prior to the aforementioned passage, Smith explains the concept of the Path of Desire that is used in Hinduism to summarize possible people's desires and their causes.

Just like the traditional understanding of human rights and social justice fought for the rights of the minority people in the society, the contemporary society in India and all over the world has continued to [...]

The body of the person who has passed on is believed to undergo a transformation. The quietness of the spirit of this person is also escalated.

This discussion examines the history of Baptism as referenced in the Bible, the various ways the ritual is practiced by differing sects of the Christian Church and provides an explanation of its significance in contemporary [...]

They are of the view that Almighty God has created man in His own image and blessed him with the superiority over all other creatures including the birds of the sky, the beasts of the [...]

The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast Christian Theism, with the Eastern Pantheistic worldview, by overviewing the foundational aspects that each stance addresses and analyzing the similarities and differences of the two [...]

2 Thus, the mission of the Church in contemporary times is the same as the mission of the Church in the 1st century A.D.

The interview led to the realization that not all Muslims are terrorists and violent but others do such acts in self-defense and this is by their sacred law.

Although theologians have not yet explored the mysteries of suffering in human lives, one thing is clear to all the people; care is essential to the suffering. Therefore, by caring for the suffering, God demonstrates [...]

One of the main elements of Hinduism is the Veda. Hinduism provides a lot of teaching in regard to the principles of right and wrong as accepted in the society.

The outstanding fact is that human beings cannot decide whether the views, teachings and beliefs of the religions are wrong or right. The other fact from the book is that all the major world religions [...]

One of the common elements between Confucianism and Taoism is their philosophical belief of the "ever changing nature of the world".

Western religions are mostly monotheism and are separate from the western religions which are generally distinguished as polytheist.generally, western religions such as Christianity are based on the believe of a supreme being or one deity [...]

This includes the name of the religion followers, the history and origins of the religion including the founders, the name of the Supreme Being or God, as well as the name of the place of [...]

For example, the story of the Life of Gautama Buddha, concerning the questions of the believer and the atheist regarding the existence of God, reveals the importance of impermanence in religion.

In addition, the first chapter examines the spread of religion in the context of the recognition of the ancient empires - Asiatic, Roman, and the further main stages of the formation and division of Christianity, [...]

A feature of Christianity that distinguishes it from other monotheistic religions is faith in Jesus Christ as the incarnation and manifestation of God for the salvation of all humanity and human society and guidance in [...]

According to the Torah, God is "the authority, the power, the totality of being, the foundation of being". According to the Torah, God is perceived as the Creator of all creation: "And God formed Hashem [...]