1. Evolution of Dietary Culture 1.1. Hunting and Gathering 1.2. The Era of Agricultural Food Production 1.3. The Middle Ages—Agriculture and Dietary Habits 1.4. The Industrial Revolution and Dietary Habits 2. Food and Religion 2.1. Western Religions 2.1.1. Christianity 2.1.2. Islam 2.1.3 Judaism 2.2. Eastern Religions 2.2.1 Buddhism 2.2.2. Hinduism 3. Food Habits in Different Regions 3.1. Asian...

the issue of “raj'at” (the return) is one of the important prophecies about the end of time that exist both in islamic and judaic - christian prophecies. according to the predictions of these religions, “raj'at” at the time of the advent of “the promised person” (al-mahdi in islam and jesus christ in christianity and messiah in judaism) will occur. this research is going to discuss th...

In 1993 The Parliament of the World's Religions produced a declaration known as A Global Ethic which set out fundamental points of agreement on moral tissues between the religions of the world. However, the declaration did not deal explicitly with medical ethics. This article examines Buddhist and Christian perspectives on euthanasia and finds that in spite of their cultural and theological dif...

The modern sociology of religion is founded on the fundamental tension between Weber’s and Durkheim’s approaches to religion. In this article, I want to use the tension between Weber and Durkheim to address fundamental problems in understanding religious modernity, both in the modern West and in contemporary Africa. Weber sought to explain differences in the social effects of the world religion...

The term ‘secular religion’ first appeared in the description of modern totalitarian ideologies but soon became a general category applied to other political, socio-economic and cultural phenomena. problem with this approach is inherent contradiction term, since ‘secular’ by all definitions means ‘non-religious’, making secular religion something like ‘nonreligious religion’. second wide range ...

Abstract The modern human rights movement arose during a moment of unprecedented encounter between global religions in the mid-twentieth century. Yet attempts to parse historical relationship and religious thought have almost exclusively taken form case studies individual traditions. This focus on intellectual genealogies obscures fact that much doctrine emerged from interreligious contacts con...