Unit 5 and 6
Unit 5 and 6
Unit 5 and 6
c 4. Episcopalianism d. asceticism
e 5. Mormonism e. anti-competitiveness
b 6. Islam f. anti-materialism
1. According to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, who were the first religious leaders to fast?
Yom Kippur
2. According to Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion at Harvard Divinity School, what does
a fast symbolize?
Speaks against the consumption, the materialism that is so pervasive in our world
3. What does Barbara Patterson, professor of religion at Emory University, think about the stree
that might be created by fasting?
The stress gives you a sense of your capacities
7. According to Ahbar Ahmed the Islamic studies professor, why is fasting so important now?
Because if you don't withdraw during the day, then the replenishment of the soul is not being
affected , and when that doesn't happen, then over time the individual begins to become
exhausted, spiritually exhausted.