India's caste system has long been a decider of social status in the tremendous South Asian nation.(AP Photo/Gurinder Osan, File) Is Caste Exclusive to India or Hinduism? While the concepts of varna and jati are referenced in Hindu texts such as the Manu Smriti and the Bhagvad Gita, cas...
In India, names serve an important purpose: to signify social status. 在印度,名字起着重要的作用:表明社会地位。 Low-status Indians, including Bishop Anderson's grandparents, escaped social discrimination by converting to Christianity and taking another, Christian, name. 地位低下的印度人,包括安德森主教...
Our guide on how to visit the West Bank in Palestine covers everything you need to explore this storied land The contentious trace of arid land that makes up the West Bank has been a flashpoint between Israel and Palestine for decades. Packed with holy sites in Judaism, Christianity and Isla...
Nathan: Yeah. Dr. Hudson is the one who is the origin of this idea that Christianity has a financial dimension to it. And that is to say that the sin and the salvation, and the armageddon of Christianity all are perfectly intelligible from a financial perspective, but that financial perspec...
“This sounds a lot like Christianity.” “Yes, the purpose of every true religion is to develop your original loving relationship with God.” “Well, a lot of people say they love God.” “Then they have to prove it by their actions. If you really love a person, you will try to ...
(Slavic, Turkic, Baltic, Fino-Ugric, Kartvelian...), faiths (Islam, Buddhism, Christianity...), races (European and Asian). In fact, the Soviet Union collapsed precisely because most of the people in the nations that achieved independence (including the Lithuanians) were extremely different ...
Christianity in Europe had smashed a lot of the idols of the older faith, and also abolished the schools of pagan philosophy. Plato’s academy was suppressed in 529 by Justinian the Great, villain of Robert Graves’s Count Belisarius but Plato was also considered a saint amongst Eastern ...
In both Judaism and Christianity, we see examples of laying down one's life rather than submitting to an enemy. In the stories of the nine Maccabees and the fall of Masada, suicide even emerges as a noble act. But what of killing in the name of God? Just as Islam arose in the seven...
Christianity and introducing smallpox and other new diseases for which they had no immunity. Between slavery, disease, overwork and famine, it is estimated that the Taino people were reduced from hundreds of thousands at the time of Columbus's arrival to just a few hundred some 60 years later...
Smith entered the University of Glasgow at the age of 15 and studied moral philosophy. His original interest in Christianity evolved into more of a Deist stance (although this has been challenged). Smith's arguments againstmercantilismand in favor offree tradewere a stark challenge to much of ...