Fasting and Major World Religions

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This paper compares and contrasts how three different major world religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam, use the practice of fasting as a form of demonstrating belief in God. The paper discusses the purpose of fasting in each of these religions and looks at the relationship of fasting to the worship of God in each religion.

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"Fasting is defined as the act of total or partial abstinence from food for a limited period of time, typically taken for moral or religious reasons. Religious belief systems and dicta concerning fasting range from Zoroastrianism which forbids it to Jainism which teaches that the believer's goal is a life of passionless detachment which would ideally culminate by death by voluntary starvation. In this essay, the relationship of fasting as a form of demonstrating belief in or obedience to God..."

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