Analysis Of The Red Tent And Stranger To History

What does it mean to be Jewish or Muslim, or even Christian? What does an understanding of the history that intertwines faith and culture matter to how we live within those religious labels? The Red Tent and Stranger to History, while both using a different perspective, explores the connection between history, culture, and faith traditions, and how we must look at the past to understand our own present and future. Religious experience is distinctly different for women than it is for men, which is evident in Diamant’s portrayal of the silent roles females played in pre-Jewish culture. In contrast, Taseer discusses an experience from a uniquely male view, though both ask the same question: Why do the histories matter?

Judaism, like all other religious traditions, did not have specific moments in time when they came into being. Instead, cultures had traditions and rituals that were influenced by others and then diluted and influenced

When further probed, this same number did not see a difference between the workplace experience of varying cultures or religions based on gender even when informed of research highlighting the opposite. Are these responses due to an idea that everyone does the same job and therefore it is just a matter of whether one does that job in a competent manner, or is it because these students do not have an expanded knowledge of how people from different cultures view the world? In The Red Tent, Dinah did not understand why her friend was treated poorly in her grandmother’s tribe, or how other groups of women could function without the idols that kept her own life in order. In Stranger to History, Aatish begins with no understanding of the intersection of his father’s life work and religion; he had to learn how culture and politics played into Islam before he could see into his father’s mind and