Communication Between Cultures

Cultural Expressions of Islam As we have asked of all the religious worldviews, how does theology get translated into the way Mu ...

A Complete Way of Life Another cultural manifestation of Islam is that it is a complete way of life. It must be remembered that ...

contemporary Muslims and some of the“punishments”associated with violating any of the laws. Many people in the West (and many in ...

Islamic culture’s attitude toward women. Although you might find it strange for women to cover their hair with thehijab, Muslim ...

houris, or virgins. Hell is a place of burning and heat where excruciating pains are perpetual (Qur’an).”^167 While many Muslim ...

Sacred Texts We have already mentioned that Hinduism is not only one of the oldest of all reli- gions but also the most diverse. ...

Core Assumptions As is the case with all religions, the messages and lessons advanced by the sacred texts, teachers, and prophet ...

emotional, is Brahman. Hence, Brahman becomes an all-inclusive, transcendental reality that sustains and supports everything. Va ...

tells of the significance of the home in the following explanation: “Hinduism wears the face of family and home. A home’smostsac ...

interpersonal behaviors and responsibilities associated with it. Before we mention the four stages, we should point out that ver ...

Ethics and Hinduism Throughout this section on Hinduism we have discussed the idea of ethics on nearly every page. The reason is ...

without a missionary component to its philosophy, Buddhism extended itself over cul- tural areas in South and East Asia and has ...

idiom and vocabulary that were readily understandable. He paid close attention to the psychological makeup of his interlocutors ...

essential message in Buddha’s teaching as you can observe in two more celebrated Buddhist maxims that stress the same point:“Bet ...

In many ways, the central core of the teaching of Buddha deals with the Eightfold Path. Because of the importance to the Buddhis ...

one to see things as they are. There is a rather famous Buddha saying:“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, con ...

change every moment, they still cannot be accurately described as the same or as different from what they were a moment ago.”^22 ...

ethical behavior. Buddha’s approach to ethics was unique in that it was not con- cerned with what he referred to as“social custo ...

and avoid death for as long as possible. The underlying premise for this attitude is that death should be avoided at all costs. ...

wars, unjust societies, numerous forms of humans’inhumanity to one another, discord in families, and neglect of scholarship, wri ...