Religious conflict, needless to say, is presently a very pervasive feature of our international society, and is likely to remain so well into the 21st Century, unfortunately. Every now and then, people switch on their TVs and are greeted with news of religious violence: the Moslems fighting the Hi...

Within the last year or so I've questioned my beliefs I organized religion a great deal. I was never really religious, only attending church on rare occasions such as funerals, weddings ad about every other year for Christmas mass. I was baptized Lutheran when I was about six months old and ne...

Malcolm X He was born with the name of Malcolm Little in University Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. Malcolm was the seventh child out of the whole eleven children. He was the son of his father, Reverend Earl Little, who was a Baptist minister and a strong believer in Marcus Garvey's idea...

It may seem similar and it may not, but what we do know, is that they both believe that they are Muslims. The Islamic beliefs of the black American male and the males of the Middle East are the same. My argument lies in the question of whether or not Africans can call themselves true Muslims, believ...

A Study of the Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land And the Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca A French folklorist and ethnographer, Arnold Van Gennep (1908-1960) gave us the first clues about how ancient and tribal societies conceptualized and symbolized the transitions men have to make betwee...