country of India. I’ve observed many different things; many unusual things about this country. India has a wide variety of cultures and religions. The holiday I have learned about is called Hajj. Hajj means ‘to set out for a place’. Hajj is the pilgrimage that Muslims make to Makkah or also called Mecca ‚ Saudi Arabia‚ and is one of the five basic requirements of Islam. It is a religious high point of a Muslim’s life and is an event that every Muslim dreams of being part of. Hajj is a religious obligation
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Portrayal of women in the middle ages: By the Middle Ages‚ it was commonly accepted that Eve was principally to blame for the disobedience that led to the fall of humanity. Greek ideas had replaced Jewish in Christian thinking‚ including the notion that the soul was good but the body evil. Heretical though this might have been‚ it didn’t stop sexuality being regarded as somehow evil. One of the few recorded medieval women writers‚ the mystic Margery Kempe‚ aspired to celibacy even within marriage
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INTRODUCTION: World is becoming multi-faith day by day. There isn’t any single country in the world occupied by the people of a single belief. Each country has different faiths in the form of minorities and majorities. People of different communities are living with each other around the world and coming closer day by day. This is an era of globalization which calls for “interfaith awareness and understanding”. A basic understanding of the diverse range of cultures‚ faiths and their histories has
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Response: Intimations of Dark Tourism The study of dark tourism by Foley and Lennon displays a significant amount of research and examples. In pointing out the vast number of dark tourist sites‚ worldwide‚ the two authors validate the importance of dark tourism in anthropology. The manner in which a human views death depends completely on the way in which he or she was socialized from the time he or she was born. Although opinions‚ representations‚ and the ways in which humans cope with
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UK Keywords Ethics‚ Green issues‚ India‚ Tourism The context Pilgrimage to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion is an age-old tradition‚ followed by religions all over the world. The fact that it is often carried out on foot‚ is an older form and has many religious connotations‚ has made people overlook it as a form of tourism. Apart from the devotional aspect‚ looked at from the broader point of view‚ pilgrimage involves‚ sightseeing‚ travelling‚ visiting different places and‚ in
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Context The Canterbury Tales is the most famous and critically acclaimed work of Geoffrey Chaucer‚ a late-fourteenth-century English poet. Little is known about Chaucer’s personal life‚ and even less about his education‚ but a number of existing records document his professional life. Chaucer was born in London in the early 1340s‚ the only son in his family. Chaucer’s father‚ originally a property-owning wine merchant‚ became tremendously wealthy when he inherited the property of relatives who had
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owning monastic lands were unlikely to embrace a return to Catholicism (Household‚ 2008). Henry made changes in traditional religious practices. He ordered the clergy to rebuke superstitious images and relics‚ and to preach against miracles and pilgrimages. “The catechism of 1545‚ called the King ’s Primer‚ left out the saints.
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Hans’ will. They are pious to the mother of God and they are willing to put off the clergies and nobilities. The way they can go through the spiritual process is to go on the pilgrimage to the shrine‚ Niklashausen‚ to get purification and releasing. Another rule‚ which determines Hans and his followers to do the pilgrimage‚ is because of their poverty‚ the economic rule. A peasant can barely get their work by enough harvest to support a family‚ be prepared for next year. The basic need is also
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more than he did gravely. India would not be in the shape it is today without Asoka’s leadership and rule. After Asoka’s warriors had conquered Kalinga and its people‚ he wanted to know why people in his empire were suffering. The ruler went on a pilgrimage‚ trying to discover answers and enlightenment. Whilst on his mission‚ Asoka: a ruler whose legacy and leadership made him the founding father of India. He ruled the Mauryan Empire over 2‚000 years ago‚ and helped to spread Buddhism in and around
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Many components make up these traditions. Religious traditions are made of what the tradition says in its teachings‚ texts‚ doctrine‚ stories‚ myths and many others. Religious traditions also include what the tradition does through worship‚ prayer‚ pilgrimage‚ and rituals. Each religion along with the traditions it has will also have a place to organize leadership and communicate relationships among members. People assume that every religion has a sacred book or that they worship a god of some type
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