faith. Traveling to religious sites has been accounted for in the bible and can been considered as one of the oldest reasons for travel and is a vast growing sector even today. Tourist visit cultural or religious site for that matter for a variety of reasons (Ho & McKercher‚ 2006). According to Levi and Kocher‚ the purpose of visiting sacred sites may from the purposeful tourist who is seeking authentic cultural experiences to the casual tourist who may be visiting a religious site because it is part
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The Importance of Religious Freedom As Catholics‚ we have the privilege to participating in certain subjects‚ such as politics. It can be extremely difficult for us to participate at times‚ because of our controversial‚ misjudged‚ and misunderstood beliefs. Some subjects we deem as wrong are Abortion‚ Euthanasia‚ and Capital Punishment. Some professions cause us to go against our faith such as nursing. Examples of ways they are tempted to go against their faith include physician-aided suicide
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the promotion of high principles of human morality for the establishment of good relations among members of the society and the elimination of every sort of undue discrimination. Keeping in view this definition‚ our need for religion and religious teachings is absolutely clear. To be a little more elaborate‚ it may be said that we require religion for the following reasons: 1. Sanction for the Principles of Morality Religion provides a sanction for the principles of morality
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is appointed by God to convey a divine message Quran The sacred book of Islam: the word of God revealed to the Prophet. Revelation God’s disclosure of himself and his will to his people Allah The Arabic word for the one and only God Bedouin Arab desert nomad Ka’ba Cube-shaped religious shrine believed to have been erected by Adam and then rebuilt by Abraham. Today it is the central shrine of Islam – the focal point for daily prayer and the pilgrimage – and is within the precincts
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The influence of the Western culture on the girls of Bangladesh and the Islamic outlook in context. NAME: PHABLIHA NUSAIBA KHALID ID: 123 0955 015 SECTION: 1 COURSE INSTRUCTOR: DR. A.Q.M.A. RAHMAN BHUIYAN‚ ASSISTANT PREOFESSOR‚ ENGLISH DEPARTMENT NORTH SOUTH UNIVERSITY SUBMITTED ON: 25TH APRIL 2013 Table Of Contents: Acknowledgement-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 Abstract -------------------------------------------------
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Understanding Islam Assignment Although Islam is the second largest religion in the world‚ the infamy alone is not sufficient enough for some people to change their current views of the adherents of this religion. This history of this religion is remarkable; it started out among a small population of advocates in Arabia. It did not take a long time for this religion to spread and flourish. A religion that was established in Arabia suddenly extended to the natives of Spain‚ Africa‚ and China (“Background-Two
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Question: What does Islam have to say regarding co-education in schools? What are your viewpoints regarding this? Please elaborate on the pros and cons of such a system. Two popular arguments in favor of co-education are: 1. Coeducation builds confidence in a person and makes him/her a more complete person to live in a real world. In other words‚ studying in the same-sex education system makes a person lack in self confidence. 2. Another argument given by the proponents of co-education
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Religious Satire: Laughter Silenced The world enjoys laughter; they say it is the best medicine. In every part of the world there are comics‚ jokes‚ and satire. Most of them are all in good fun‚ but sometimes the jokes get taken too far. The recent uproar over a political cartoon in the Middle East has sparked a lot of interest with religious satire. Why does religion get attacked so frequently? How far is too far? When are the jokes no longer funny‚ but hurtful? Whenever someone’s religion
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Religious Conversion They say change is good‚ is this so? To some change is bad. People hate to switch upon things when there used to something being a certain way. To others change is essential to life. One must change and adapt to live on and survive. Whether one likes it or not‚ everything goes through change. It could be from the type of coffee one drink to the weather in the city‚ things face change. What about change by choice? Has there ever been a certain lifestyle that one changed from
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1. The previous reading on Islam from the Bilhartz textbook did connect to the the web article and the web video regarding Sufism and Radical Islam. Bilhartz explained that the term "Sufism" derived from ascetics who " adopted the custom of wearing austere garments made of suuf‚ the Arabic word for wool" (2006‚ p. 117). The practice of wearing wool garments was to reject worldly clothing. This may explain the origin of the word Sufi‚ which is the Arabic term for "mystic" and is used to describe the
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