http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/religious-studies Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:11:04 -0400 Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:11:04 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/328/the-sermon-on-the-mount-is-it-livable By Michel F. Kearney - When the Preacher wrote, “of making many books there is no end” [KJV Eccles. 12:12] he did not anticipate the mass of articles, scholarly papers and textbooks that would be written about Jesus’ address given to a group of disciples on a hillside in Galilee, but the statement nevertheless can be applied to the literature surrounding what we now call the Sermon on the Mount, recorded in Matthew 5-7 and Luke 6:20-49. More than thirty years ago, W.S. Kissinger listed nearly 150 pages of bibliography on the Sermon (Crump 3), and judging from the attention that this most famous ethical... Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:22 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/328/the-sermon-on-the-mount-is-it-livable http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/192/prompts-for-progress-feminism-in-the-islamic-world By Noelle Swan - The popular press is full of accounts of oppressive and unequal treatment of women in Iran and Afghanistan. Both The Washington Times and The New York Times deliver scathing accounts of fundamentalist governments' revocation of women's rights measured by the largely western ideal of gender equality. Religious scholars would argue that within devoutly spiritual nations founded on Islamic principles, gender advancements could only take place within the framework of the Qur’an and the teachings of the prophet Muhammad. While scholars are able to provide a reconciliation of gender justice within... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:27 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/192/prompts-for-progress-feminism-in-the-islamic-world http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/60/milk-and-honey-how-the-old-testament-speaks-to-a-people-in-exile By Lindsay D. Clark - Mortal glory is fleeting. The Old Testament generally does not concern itself with militant triumph or climactic discovery. It much rather prefers to employ “legends, folktales, artfully constructed stories, and the like”[1] to spin a web of frustration and disappointment. Taken as a whole unit, it is a product of the post-exilic period[2], for even its oldest pieces underwent editing to suit the purposes of authors addressing an audience during the Babylonian exile[3]. And so it sought to form a bond of struggle, and it succeeded, as “Judaism flourished in exile…&rdquo... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:41 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/60/milk-and-honey-how-the-old-testament-speaks-to-a-people-in-exile