Religious Myths and Worldviews

Category: Shinto Myths and Legends

  • Satan’s Temptation of Christ and Parallels Drawn to Other World Religions

    For this week’s discussion, my group and I discussed Satan’s Temptation of Christ and the components that form the myth. We also discussed how other world religions have similar narratives in their mythology. Background: The Temptation of Christ is a narrative from the canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke that tells the story of…

  • Creation Myths and Worldviews

    The discussion our group had this week focused mainly on the importance of myths and their correlation with the shaping of beliefs of a specific group or people or society altogether. First of all, it is nearly impossible to deny the influence of religion and myths in modern society. As one of the group members…

  • Chinese Myths and the Creation Stories

    Throughout the history of ancient China, each myth and religion which spread throughout had a social impact it left on the country, some even to the modern era. In this week’s discussion thread, there was the common theme of the social impacts of myths in China. First, let’s talk about ancient China. During the Zhou…

  • The Power of Creation Myths

    This week, we will be diving into three major themes in creation narratives – “Brahma Creates the World” and Izanagi and Izanami- alongside its social impact and relevance today. The following topics are based on the discussion I have had over the last few days with my group members.  The Void  What is the void?…

  • Social Impact and Worldviews of Creation Myths

    This week we studied creation myths specifically relating to Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto, and Sikh religions. My group’s discussion focused on the social impacts and the worldviews that these myths produced. In terms of social impact, we thought that the cyclical concept of life and rebirth in the Sikh, Buddhist, and Hindu religions caused followers to…

  • Gender Roles & Our Worldview

    Times are changing. As I was reading everyone’s blog post for this week, it gave me hope to see that as a society and next generation for this world, we are moving away from old ways of thinking and into new progressive ideologies. This progressive thinking is seen in everyone’s responses in our thoughts on…