Differences Between Religions And Religions

The eastern religions that we have discussed in class are Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. The western religions that we have discussed in class are Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The Eastern Religions have originated in countries such as China, India, and Japan. The western religions originated in Europe and the Americas. There are few similarities between eastern religions and western religions, but many differences. The biggest difference between the two religions is that eastern religions believe in more than one god, whereas western religions believe in one God.

Religion is a set of beliefs, cultural system and worldviews that establish symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and to moral values. It defines who you are, what you are and your views about the world. It gives its followers guidelines which frames their actions, attitudes, cultures and belief.

Judaism, Christianity, Islam are 3 major religions that have a lot of differences and similarities. Judaism has 3 major Jewish sects. In Christianity Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. Islam has a sacred book of Muslims called the Qur’an.

Religion is an important aspect of the lives of many people throughout the world. While there are many different religions throughout the world that all have different beliefs, people tend to only accept one religion as the ultimate truth and reject all others. This ideology sometimes can be so strong as to cause war between countries throughout the world as well as throughout history. There is also a popular opinion in western countries, including the United States, that western religions are better than eastern religions, where eastern religions are often viewed as archaic and undeveloped. This opinion, however, is incorrect and often stems from the major differences between the two different types of religion that people are often not aware of.

The religions of the world, while differing greatly in their specifics, are surprisingly similar. The three most prevalent religions in the world are Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism, in that order. All believe in a higher power that presides over and created man. Islam originated in approximately 609 C.E., or Common Era, and Christianity originated around 33 C.E. which is supposedly when Jesus Christ was crucified. The main prophet of Islam, Muhammad, is supposedly of the lineage of Jesus Christ. Both religions consider Abraham the father of the people of Israel, his son Ishmael being the “Father of the Arabs” and his son Isaac being the “Father of the Hebrews”. Hinduism originated in India in

When Hinduism first started out it had little to none branches, now it has grown and grown and started to branch off. Here are the four dominating branches of Hinduism, Saivism; Saivite Hindus praise the “High God” as “Siva”. Siva is known to be the Compassionate God. Saivites practice self discipline and reasoning and abide by a satguru. They praise worship in the Holy Temple

Throughout this semester in Comparative Religions I have learned about many different religions and how they used to and are now practiced. Before taking this class I had general knowledge about all the religions we learned about but knew the most about Christianity. From this class and going on the field trips I gained a larger understanding of the world's major religions. The two religions I had the chance to understand more were Evangelical Christian and Hinduism. I am fortunate to have gotten to be apart of their services and have a better understanding of their religion.

Observing the daily lifestyles of the individuals from different time periods show a great deal of how the religion changes the societal behavior of the followers of each religion. The religion’s form of worshipping a God is a reputable indicator of the era’s culture. While looking into The Iliad, we find that the culture of that time highlights warfare and worshipping multiple Gods. This polytheistic culture differs greatly from the culture of The Torah, which was the first established religion that believed in teaching a monotheistic education, believing in one God. Furthermore, one can see in The New Testament that they also worship one God in addition to following the teachings of Jesus. This creates a difference in cultures as this changes the way people worship their God/Gods. The transition into the first millennium brought many changes as new religions appeared and there became a diversity in beliefs. Through looking at The Homeric Era, The Hellenic Era, and The Roman Era, the differences within these time periods are shown through the transformation of each religion 's form of worship as a ritual.

This ethnographic study started by developing a hypothesis to be tested using primary and secondary research. Research questions were instituted as a guide in the research process. The research questions were then used in unity with the research notes, so it would accept a

Did you know Eastern and Western religions have similarities but they’re but everything they do is not the same they have differences as well. The religions share some beliefs and holidays not all they have different ways of life. Confucianism and Judaism are two different cultures with same want and a different belief. They both want to make the world a better place keeping it stable and peaceful in their own different ways. Their difference is that confucianism isn’t really a religion they like to call it a way of life they don’t believe in a god. Buddhism and Christianity have kind of a similar worship place they have to different goals for their life. Also both religions worship at either church or a temple and the pray in their the same

In Hinduism, unlike the other religions we have read about, there is not as much of a rivalry between sects. Instead, each sect preaches tolerance and acceptance towards one another. As situations changed and different responses were expressed, the four major sects were created: Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism, and Smartism. Vaishnavism and Shivaism share the similarity of being monotheistic in nature with each believing in one “supreme G-d” Vishnu or Shiva respectively. In addition to these four sects, there are six other schools of Vedantic [Astika related] philosophy: Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Purva Mimamsa [Mimamsa], and Uttara Mimamsa [Vedanta]. The latter three are the most popular. Vaishnavism, the most popular sect, believes

Fisher points out, “According to tradition, there are actually 333 million deities in India. The feeling is that the divine have countless faces” (p.79). This is because in Hinduism, their spiritual expressions vary, allowing people to have multiple different devotion to a deity, making it more personal than someone else. Hinduism has many different variations that are a bit extreme. Fisher points out that, scholars argue that Hinduism is so varied that there’s no main Hindu tradition (p.79). This shows how unique and unorthodox the religion is. Followers of the Hindu religion beliefs vary heavily from the heights of their beliefs in abstract philosophy, to their metaphysical proclamations of the oneness behind the material world to worship of images of multiple

Britain ruled over India and religion was a constitute for nationality in a way they had an ideal of living in harmony with Muslims and Hinduism. As both are separate in their belief and worship, they opposed each other in a form of political background and who should run the country. As religion began to be a big part of the conflict, the creation of the nation was started with wanting independence. As a result, Muslims feared Hinduism would dominate and flee them into another land.

Hinduism being a conglomeration of many different views means there is no set beliefs for the whole group (such as Christianity with the ten commandments). Although each of their beliefs share common ideas. Some of these ideas include:

Research studies have shown efforts to distinguish differences between religious and nonreligious individuals in areas of physiological studies. In an article called The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief (Harris, Kaplan, Curiel, Bookheimer, Lacoboni, and Cohen 2009), the topic of physiological studies attempts to discover differences between religious believers and the non- religious is expanded. The researchers intend to discover the difference in brain activity of religious believers and non-religious believers when presented with questions of fact and questions of fiction. This critique will present the researchers main questions, the methods used, the results of the experiments, and conclusions. The study’s strengths, validity, consistency and weaknesses will also be assessed throughout this critique.