The Arabic din signifies an entire way of life. The Sanskrit dharma is also “a total concept: untranslatable covering law, justice, morals, and social life.”
The Oxford Classical Dictionary firmly states that no word in either Greek or Latin corresponds to the English ‘religion’ or ‘religious'. The idea of religion as an essentially personal and systematic pursuit was entirely absent from classical Greece, Japan, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran, China, and India. Nor does the Hebrew Bible have any abstract concept of religion. If the Buddhist non- violence is spoken about, soon we hear that Buddhism is not a religion but a secular philosophy. Our world is dangerously polarized as humanity is more closely interconnected- politically, economically, and electronically than ever before. People from different strata of society- from American commentators to psychiatrists and from London taxi drivers to Oxford academics- reiterate that religion has been the cause of all major wars in history.
The Oxford Classical Dictionary firmly states that no word in either Greek or Latin corresponds to the English ‘religion’ or ‘religious'. The idea of religion as an essentially personal and systematic pursuit was entirely absent from classical Greece, Japan, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran, China, and India. Nor does the Hebrew Bible have any abstract concept of religion. If the Buddhist non- violence is spoken about, soon we hear that Buddhism is not a religion but a secular philosophy. Our world is dangerously polarized as humanity is more closely interconnected- politically, economically, and electronically than ever before. People from different strata of society- from American commentators to psychiatrists and from London taxi drivers to Oxford academics- reiterate that religion has been the cause of all major wars in history.
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