My first time in the Middle East was to perform Hajj. The weather in Mecca was 105-degrees and the heat was a new experience for me. I was also startled by the Muslim world before me. The incredible diversity of people journeying far and wide...
Introduction to Sikhism Punjab was a united nation until 1947 when the partition divided the Indian subcontinent along religious lines. The borders drawn by religious division had a detrimental impact on Punjab, which was forced to be split and governed by two different countries. The...
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales were written in an age of supreme religious dominance. Religion was as prevalent in the characters society as government is in today’s society. Esther C. Quinn gives a literary analysis, The Theme of Religious Pilgrimage in The Canterbury Tales, of the Canterbury...
The Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536 is a major uprising which, paradoxically, could be viewed to have both threatened and subsequently weakened Henry and his regime- and posed no threat, and strengthened the monarchy. The Pilgrimage of Grace is a large-scale rebellion which posed as...
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