Religion Essays

he Hajj is the greatest pilgrimage, which can be only taken in Dhul-Hajjah. This event only happens on a year, during the 12th month of the lunar calendar and the main events last up to 5-6 days. However, for some it can last for up to 9days if they participate …

Biomedical sciences have made not only important advances for mankind, in addition, their research and experimentation have brought about heated debates touching on what “we” hold dear, and that is: our humanity. Cloning is definitely one of the hot topics. The general public is more worried about the “cloned” twin …

Women rights and gender equality has been a problem for a lot of countries, one of them, is Malaysia. Women in Malaysia had suffered from varieties of problems such as high rate of divorce, poverty, lack of education and health care, and violence. There are three different cultures in Malaysia …

The Celts of Europe were an Indigenous, polytheistic religion and culture with a very distinctive worldview. They had an understanding of the world around them and their meaning of life and death both came from their core beliefs and rituals. This was also linked to their myths and stories. Celts …

Marriage: Christians believed that marriage is a solemn agreement between two people in God’s eyes and in people’s eyes. It means that if a couple is already married, they should take it seriously and don’t take it as not a lifetime commitment. Because that is what marriage meant. It means …

William Blake was a poet of a great standard. His harsh Protestant upbringing and folktales told to him inspired many of his poems. His greatest source was the Bible. Many of his poems involve God and nature. He is a Romantic poet (not the sort of ‘valentines’ romantic though), who …

Religion is a strong theme throughout Jane Eyre, with Jane meeting religion in different forms through different characters in the novel. Bronte used the characters to represent how religion is often used in people’s lives. One of the first strong religious characters that Jane encounters is Mr Brocklehurst, a fearsome …

In the preface to Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte writes, “narrow human doctrines… should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ.” And this is not the only place that religious references, more specifically Christian references, are mentioned in the preface. In fact there are Christian references in many places …

Imagine a girl growing up around the turn of the nineteenth century. An orphan, she has no family or friends, no wealth or position. Misunderstood and mistreated by the relatives she does have, she is sent away to a school where the cycle of cruelty continues. All alone in the …

I believe that Hasidism has indeed been essential to the continuation of Judaism. The Hasidic movement arose in the early eighteenth century as a result of persecution and arguably too much academic study of the Torah. Its founder, the Baal Shem Tov (Master of the Good Name) was not a …