World Religions. 9dqEKvx.jpg (702×608) Comparative Religion Through the Movies - The 10 Best Religious Movies. Aug 29, 2001 Popular Products in Movies From $6 From $10 The Bottom Line To get a more universal world view about religion, you have to dig a little to find good films about non western religions. Although watching a film about religious content should never substitute for individual research into a religion’s history and writings, it can certainly provide insights and background as well as allow a vicarious travelogue to distant regions. Not everyone will be able to walk the streets of Jerusalem, ride a camel across the Arabian desert, or trek through the Himalayas to get a physical sense of lands from where the great religions have begun, but we do have the movies.
In an effort to cover as many religious faiths as possible, I have attempted to list the better films that I’ve seen that derive from various religious backgrounds. Himalaya (2001) To represent traditional beliefs of indigenous people it takes a filmmaker intimate with the culture to represent it properly. Gandhi (1982) REL100: Essay Questions. Confucianism Origins, Confucianism History, Confucianism Beliefs. Some say Confucianism is not a religion, since there are no Confucian deities and no teachings about the afterlife.
Confucius himself was a staunch supporter of ritual, however, and for many centuries there were state rituals associated with Confucianism. Most importantly, the Confucian tradition was instrumental in shaping Chinese social relationships and moral thought. Thus even without deities and a vision of salvation, Confucianism plays much the same role as religion does in other cultural contexts. The founder of Confucianism was Kong Qiu (K'ung Ch'iu), who was born around 552 B.C.E. in the small state of Lu and died in 479 B.C.E. The Latinized name Confucius, based on the honorific title Kong Fuzi (K'ung Fu-tzu), was created by 16th-century Jesuit missionaries in China. World History Connected | Vol. 4 No. 1 |Michael C. Weber: Teaching Religion in the World History Class. History of Religion.
Hasidic Jews and the Internet: a bad combination? Photograph by Janek Skarzynski/Getty Images. Once upon a time—say, in the 1990s—a Hasidic Jew looking for escape from her blinkered world might have gone to the library. But by the time F. Vizel, a Satmar Hasid, learned that the public library existed at the age of 20, she’d already made a far more critical discovery. She’d found the Internet. Libby Copeland is a writer in New York and a regular Slate contributor. Follow Vizel, who grew up an hour and a half from New York City, started going online at 19 on her husband’s laptop.
In time, Vizel became so rebellious—she asked to stop shaving the hair she covered with a scarf, flouting the standards for married women in her community—that she says she was asked by community leaders to hand over the laptop. In the last five years, stories of Hasidic Jews becoming ex-Hasidic Jews have been virtually everywhere. The answer has a lot to do with the life span of the Internet. And the drumbeat of the disaffected is likely to continue.