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World Religion CD-ROM was created by Dr. John Stelzer who teaches a three-term course on World Religion at Umpqua Community College in Southwestern Oregon. The World Religion CD-ROM is the core content for his course. It is suitable for anyone who is interested in learning about the major religions of the world, including students - junior high, high school, community college and university students. The World Religion CD-ROM is also of interest to church groups desiring to learn more about other religions, as well as the general public. These supplementary sections contain further links to Special topics are also covered, such as the Tibetan Book of the Dead which receives extensive analysis. Some, not all religions are concerned with one or more of these topics or issues. Concerning the nature of God, for example, to be Jewish it is not required that one believe in a monotheistic God. One actually can be agnostic, even be atheistic, and still be Jewish. Islam does make such an insistence with its unequivocal creed: There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet. With its Trinity of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, however, Christianity seems slightly confused about this point. Is Jesus divine? Is the Holy Spirit divine? What is the relationship between these three divine entities? Many people have died because of their answers to these questions, and those questions ultimately split (1054) Christianity into its Western and Eastern braches, and that split persists to this day (2006). The debate about the nature of god continues. Analogous comments can be made about differences between beliefs about souls and the afterlife. Souls play an important role in Egyptian religion, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam; but play little role in Buddhism, Chinese religion or Humanism. The afterlife, is also important in Egyptian religion and Zoroastrianism, paradoxically is of little importance in Judaism, but is very important in Christianity and Islam. Since Buddhism and Humanism do not include belief in souls, there is no afterlife to be concerned with. While traditional Chinese religious thinking does not include the belief in souls, still there is an afterlife; life continues after death in a different real, a realm just not quite as nice as this world. It might be argued that social structure is an integral part of religious belief. It is certainly true that Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Vedic regions each contained strict hierarchical social structures, as does both Hinduism and traditional Chinese religious belief. Jewish, Christian and Islamic societies are not so hierarchically structured, but they still depend for structure on distinct social roles defined around the institution of marriage. Women’s roles varied and do vary greatly from religion to religion. In Hinduism women had no rights, they were a burden on the males. In China rights of women, their roles, depended on which religious system they found themselves in. Under Confucians, women had no rights, Taoists tried to stop female infanticide, while Buddhists generally accepted women. The roles of women in Judaism, Christianity and Islam have been changing, and they have been gaining more rights, but still, it might be argued, they have been, and generally are, expected to be married. Price is $50.00 plus $5.00 shipping.
The World Religion CD-ROM is an in-depth analysis and comparison of the major religions of the world.
Religions covered:
Each religion is described in terms of its
In addition there are special sections that summarize, compare and contrast religious ideas about
The World Religion CD-ROM is organized into 23 distinct components.
Themes - Summary
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