The Role Of Religion In Eastern Cultures

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.

The most important things I am taking away from this class is the key difference of Eastern and Western religions. Eastern religions include Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism that mostly focus on right action know as orthopraxy. While Western religions are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam believe in right belief orthodoxy. Western religions tend to use creeds example being in Christianity the Apostles creed. Creeds are statements of fundamental beliefs in a religion.

"All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.” By Clement of Alexandria. What is religion? Religion can be defined differently by people but it is what people want to believe from their culture and who created their life, surroundings.

Since the dawn of the human race, men and women have traveled the world for a myriad of reasons. The need for more food, a better living environment, religious or ethnic persecution, or even curiosity have driven humankind to search out new lands and new territories. In the ancient world, people traveled for different reasons including to spread their religion or to escape religious persecution. The desire for wealth and power fueled by curiosity, caused others to pick up their bags and move to new lands. There were certain select people from various people groups intentionally did not or could not travel due to their gender, their socioeconomic status, or even their culture.

The Middle East is a beautiful region it consists of Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen. There are many things about the Middle East that is so intriguing, but in this paper I am only going to focus on religion in the Middle East. The Middle East is an extremely diverse region in so many ways, culture, language, literature, art, etc., but most of all it is diverse because of its religions. There are hundreds of religions but the three religions that make up the foundation of religion in the Middle East; Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.

Over the course of the last few months, there has been a great deal taught on the three key questions. For each of the religions we’ve spoken of, there is a very detailed and specific path of answering these questions for each of the Eastern and Western traditions. We looked into Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Of these, there are only four that actually recognize a God. In Hinduism, the one is Brahman. For Judaism it is Yahweh, Christians look to God or Jesus for their lessons and praise them, and the Islamic praise Allah. In contrast, Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism are all more philosophies than religions. None of these three praise a God, but they all stick to a different set of focused rules/ ideas to either become successful or to reach enlightenment. In this, I will further emphasis the three key questions based around the Western tradition of Hinduism and the Eastern tradition of Judaism. For each of these religions, there are a lot of differences between them, even things as simple as where they come from and what they worship.

East Asia culture is composed of two main religious traditions of Daoism and Confucianism. These two traditions seem to be completely opposed to each other but if we take a close look at both we will notice that they share some equal values. Even though East Asia has a couple of different religions and traditions they are all called worshiping. Chinese people are known to be worshipers since 2000 BCE, especially worshipers of the natural world that holds a cosmic energy.

The idea of the soul varies widely in religious tradition. While these variations exist, its basic definition is unvarying. The soul can be described as the ultimate internal principle by which we think, feel, and will, and by which our bodies are animated. The soul is seen as the core principle of life or as the essence of a being 1. Views on the permanence of the soul vary throughout religious tradition as well. While some view it as a mortal entity in flux others believe the soul is an immortal and permanent unit. These interpretations vary from time period to time period and between religions. These characteristics of the soul are interpreted differently through an Eastern or

For centuries, Eastern religions and philosophies of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism & Daoism have been practiced by millions. Three similarities distinguishable by all four practices is the focus and teachings of virtuous humanistic practices, compassion and respect for the world around us. Although, similar in intentions each system carries unique attributes.

Most religions around the world are different in a lot of ways, but sometimes they do believe in the same things. It is common for a religion to share ideas with each other.This is how some religions can relate to each other. In the class discussion Hinduism Religion they share the idea of ¨Multiple choices of a god “with Christianity. One problem is that Hinduism has over 100 different kinds of gods but Christianity has 3.Obviously There are way too many gods in Hinduism, sadly too many to name, but in Christianity there is the father the son ,and the holy spirit. Nevertheless this gives you a option of which one you want to pray to. In class we said that Confucianism can be similar to

Abrahamic religions are the monotheistic religions of West Asia that trace their common origin to Abraham. The three largest Abrahamic religions are Judaism (1000s B.C.E.), Christianity (30s C.E.) and Islam (600s C.E.) In the Qur’an, Christians and Jews are referred to "People of the Book" because they are followers of monotheistic Abrahamic religions. All the Abrahamic religions were established in current-day Middle East.

Eastern and Western religions are found in different places in the world and they both have different religions for each one that is located in their area but at the same time they could have something alike to what they do for their religion. Both of these two different religions has some different things they do and some of things they do that are close to what they do in their religion, First, the hinduism and christianity they both have belief in one god with many other forms, and one thing they don’t have alike is that hinduism they have a millions of forms of brahma the supreme god while christians have only jesus. Clearly, Islam and the Buddhism have one thing they do that is close to what they normally do they both do nice things to

Many religions have a belief in a higher power in the universe and that has existed for a long as human being been around if not longer. Religion has survived throughout the hundreds of years because people believe in them. In Asia, there were two philosophical called Taoism and Buddhism and they had their own traditions that fall along sided with Confucianism. Buddhism originated in India and came to China during the second century of the Common Era while Taoism originated in China in the sixth century BCE. These two religions played a huge hand in shaping the Asian life for hundreds of years.

As different as they may seem, all religions are pretty similar. Even just the small things that are just here and there can connect many religions together. That is not to say that there are also differences between them like their stances on many beliefs, gods, and followers of their religion. However the eastern and western religions are so similar and yet so different that I have decide to label the similarities and differences. That being said, I believe that the western are so similar and yet so different that they must be analyzed. After all they believe in a higher power, pray, and do other such things that are similar but still every reason they are similar is also how they're different. For example, in the religions Hinduism and

Eastern religions beliefs are very different from western religions. Hinduism is mostly about understanding their main God, Brahma which descends from Atman. Hinduism is mostly practiced in India and is the third largest religion around the world. In Hinduism they believe in Moksha which is the idea that the highest level of being is the freedom from transient human life. Hinduism practices meditation, yoga, and offerings to their deities in the temple. There is not official clergy in Hinduism, but they do have Yogis, Gurus, Brahmins, Priests, and Monks. Hinduism believes that reincarnation is a reoccurring cycle until reaching enlightenment, then moksha will be achieved.