Religious ritual

1. Choose a religious ritual and the religion it is practiced in that seems bizarre to some and discuss about it.

2. Discuss the significance of certain religious behaviors in encouraging adherence to religious norms.

3. Compare it to Judeo-Christian religious beliefs or practices.

4. Please include a page of bibliography in MLA format.

5. Must be at least 2 pages long.

6. MUST BE FREE OF PLAGIARISM!!

lease let me know once you’ve decided on which religion and religious ritual to do a research on.

Answer preview

There are distinct similarities and differences between the two religions. Both encourage right living and purity through abstinence from harmful behaviors. They both recognize the existence of a supreme being that helps humans in their suffering. Buddhism does not have one supreme being but many deities that play different but crucial roles in human wellbeing. Buddhism rejects the notion of a single creator God who is solely responsible for the world’s values, but Christianity is monotheistic. Buddhism focuses on the life and teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha, who was enlightened or awakened. At the same time, Judeo-Christianity is centered around Moses’s laws for the Jewish culture and the teachings of Jesus for the Christians. According to Jeong-Kyu, Christian’s view of death is divided into the somatic first death and the pneumatic second death, while Buddhism views death as a rebirth determined by karma (5). The central imagery in Buddhism is the death of Gautama at a good old age, while that of Christianity is the crucifixion of Jesus on the cross.

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Religious ritual