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3 hours ago · Many religions prescribe dietary laws and fasting, shaping believers’ daily lives and spiritual discipline. In Judaism, Kashrut laws detail what is permissible to eat and how food must be prepared. Muslims observe fasting during Ramadan from dawn until sunset, abstaining from food, drink, and other physical needs, as an exercise in self ...
3 hours ago · Not religions but dogmas are the problem. March 19, 2024. Editor, A friend of mine jokingly told a Swiss tourist, “Look at the sun of Kolkata. This is not the sun of Zurich!”. The tourist got the joke. But in religion, this is no joke. Our-your conflicts between different religions and between different castes within the same religion can ...
3 hours ago · Until late in the twentieth century, the contribution of scholars working on Christianity, Judaism, and Islam to the study of religion has been negligible. The field as a whole was dominated initially by scholars who worked on ancient religions and on (most often second-hand missionary and anthropological accounts of) the traditional small ...
1 day ago · I began to ask questions I never thought I’d ask, and found answers I’d never expected. Old things began to fall away, and – behold! – the new me has come. What a gift to be a new, still ...
3 hours ago · Hubbard claimed that Scientology was "all-denominational", and members of the Scientology organization are not prohibited from active involvement in other religions. Scholar of religion Donald Westbrook encountered members who also practiced Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and the Nation of Islam; one was a Baptist minister.
3 hours ago · Christianity is a major world religion, with more than 2.3 billion followers worldwide. It is practiced all over the globe, from the Americas to Europe to Africa and Asia. Christianity is one of the most widely practiced religions in the world, with adherents in nearly every corner of the globe.