Religion Essays

Introduction Controversy on whether to classify rock & roll as a music genre has always been rife among music analysts. While some insists that this kind of music deserves to be recognized as a genre despite its diversity, some maintain that the music is better recognized as a cultural practice …

Domenikos Theotokopoulos (1541-1614) also known as El Greco (Spanish for “The Greek”) was a Greek painter, sculptor, and architect who spent much of his time in Italy and Spain during the Renaissance.  Like many Renaissance painters, the matter of his paintings is related to biblical accounts of Jesus Christ’s life …

Khaled El Fadl’s article is a clear reminder that Islam, despite its image in the West, is fundamentally a tolerant religion that urges its followers to treat people of other faiths with fairness and acceptance, to meet peace with peace.  It also assumes that the Qur’an’s readers will interpret its …

Introduction Egyptian Islamic Jihad is one of the influential fundamentalists groups in the Middle East. Similar to other terrorist groups, religious intensity of a particularly violent kind is thus as­cribed solely to Islam even when religious feeling is spreading re­markably everywhere. A retreat into religion became the way most Islamic …

Introduction              The mention of the Spanish Inquisition would bring up images of torture, cruelty and oppression by the Catholic Church. Some even consider the Church as the “forerunner of the secret police of modern dictatorships” (Lemieux 44). Accuracy regarding the picture of the institution and the actions they have …

Introduction             There was no other field of Islamic scholarship that received the amount of the attention, as that of the exegesis of the Qur’an. This genre had undergone significant evolution since it had begun. Branches of Islamic sciences such as theology and philosophy experienced a decline in its level …

[1]Muslim is one of the fastest growing religions in America and perhaps in the world.  [2]The rate of conversion to Moslem in American is currently thought to stand at 1 million new Moslems every year.  [3]However a bitter relationship between Americans and Muslim in view of the growing anti-American dissent …

The discovery of King Tutankhamen’s tomb in the early twentieth century provided the world of archaeology with an enormous amount of information about Egyptian lifestyles. The items and artefacts that were found inside the tomb revealed the lifestyles of the Egyptian people at the time but they also exposed religious …

America’s declaration on the war against terrorism had received much criticism because while it attempts to prevent the war to be associated with a war against the Islamic religion, most of the countries and groups that were involved in the campaign namely, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and groups like Abu Sayaf …

Faith was not meant to be restricted in the religious area of Christian’s lives. It embodied who they were as people. It served as their identities. They lived a lifestyle of faith. The purpose of salvation through Jesus Christ was for mankind’s atonement. It was done in order for men …