DIVORCE: DIFFERENT RELIGIONS VIEW

Contents:

1. Christianity
2. Islam
3. Indian Religions
4. Judaism
5. Others

Biblical Law In Christianity:

Most Christianity Churches treat divorce negatively, however, different Christianity denominations vary in their toleration of it. The Roman Catholic Church treats all consummated sacramental marriage as permanent during the life of the spouses, and therefore dose not allow remarriage after a divorce if the other spouses still lives and the marriage has not been annulled. However, divorce Catholics are still welcome to participate fully in the life of the Church so long as they have nnot remarried against Church law, and the Catholic Church generally requires civil divorce or annulment procedures to have been completed before it will consider annulment cases. Other Christian denominations, including the Eastern Orthodox Church and many Protestant Churches, will allow both divorce and remarriage even with a surviving former spouses, at least under certain conditions, In societies that practiced Puritanism, divorce was allowed if one partner in the marriage was not completely satisfied with the other, and remarriage was also allowed.

Bible commentary on divorce comes primarily from the gospels Matthew, Mark, and the epistles of Paul. Jesus taught on the subject of divorce in three of the Gospels, and Paul gives a rather extensive treatment of the subject in the First Epistle to the Corinthians chapter 7 "let not the wife depart from her husband..... let not the husband put away his wife", but he also include the Pauline privilege. He again alludes to his position on divorce in his Epistle to the Romans, albeit an allegory, when he states "For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth........So than if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress".

     

Divorce In Islam:

Sharia:

In Islam, divorce is allowed. Islam considers marriage to be a legal contract, and the act of obtaining a divorce is essentially the act of legally dissolving the contract. In Islamic Law and marital jurisprudence, divorce is accepted and referred to as talaq. However, divorce is considered the most hated of all lawful things in the sight of Allah.

In the medieval Islamic world and the Ottoman Empire, the rate of divorce was higher than it is today in modern Middle East, which now has generally law rates of divorce in 15th century Egypt, Al-Sakhawi recorded the marital history of 500 women, the largest sample on marriage in the Middle Ages, and found that at least a third of all women in the Mumluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria married more than once, with many marrying three or more times. According to Al-Sakhawi, as many as three out of ten marriages in 15th century. Cairo ended in divorce in the early century, some villages in western Java and the Malay peninsula had divorce rates as high as 70%.

According to Sharia law, if a man initiates the divorce, there is a required waiting period of three period for a normal lady otherwise for them who has some problem in periods and one can not examine then the time period is 3 month. There are step of divorce not like that a man is allowed to say 3 in one times than that is his mistakes and there is no relation to Islam of that mistake he did. A man must announce his intentions, in the presence of two qualified witnesses, effectively "divorcing", but still honor his obligations towards his wife (i.e. feed and clothe her) during which time the couple can reconcile. If the woman is pregnant with the son of that man then she can only leave the house of that man only when she has given birth. This period of stay is called the Idaat period. If he completes the three month period, still intent on separating from his wife, then the marriage no longer exists.

According to Sharia law, woman also has right to divorce called hulu. According to Sharia law, woman must demand divorce from court but she has to abondone her right to receive mehir, which is a good or money determined before the marriage and given to woman by man in case of divorce. Yet woman can receive her alimony still because in Sharia law, woman receives both mehir and nafaka (alimony) after divorce. In addiction, woman may pay more or less price then mehir to divorce depending on conditions.

Remarriages is allowed in Islam but there is a condition for that. In order to remarry, woman has to marry with any man but her previous husband before remarrying. Yet this should be a real marriage. Marrying in order to remarry and then to divorce is not allowed in Islam.

Indian Religions:

The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 applicable to Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains in India dose have provisions for divorce under some circumstances Buddhism has no religions concept of marriage. In Buddhism, marriage is a secular affair, subject to local customs.

Judaism:

Judaism has always accepted divorce as a fact of life, though an unfortunate one, e. g...see Deuteronomy chapter 22 and 24. Judaism generally maintains that it is better for a couple to divorce than to remain together in a state of bitterness and strife. It is said that shalom bayit (domestic harmony) is a desirable state.

In general it is accepted that for a Jewish divorce to to be effective the husband must hand to the wife, and vice versa, a bill of divorcement, called a get, which also acts as proof the divorce. Form ancient times, the get was considered to be very important to show all those who needed to have proof that the woman was in fact free from the previous marriage and free to remarry. In Jewish la, besides other things, the consequences of a woman remarrying and having a child while still legally married to another. An enactment called Herem de-Rabbenu Gershom accepted universally throughout European Jewish communities ____ prohibited a husband from divorcing his wife against her will.

 

In Jewish law divorce is an act of the parties to the marriage, which is different from the approach adopted by many other legal system. That is, a Jewish divorce dose not require a decree form a court. The function of the court, in the absence of agreement , between the parties, is to decide whether the husband should be compelled to give the get or for the wife to accept the get. But notwithstanding any such ruling, the parties remain married untill such time as the husband actually delivers.

Others:

Greek mythology:

After finding he intended to marry Glauce; for what Jason said was political ties, Medea murdered Glauce and her father with a burning dress; then proceeded to kill her own children Tisander and Alcimenes fearing they would be imprisoned. Afterwords she left to Athens on a chariot of dragons given to her by her grandfather Helios.

Wicca:

The Wiccan equivalent of a divorce a described as a handparting, Wiccans traditionally see either a high priest or high priestess to discuss things out before a divorce. However a handfasting (marriage) that falls apart peacefully dose not necessarily need a handparting.

Unitarian Universalism:

In Unitarian Universalism, divorce is allowed and should be a decision by the individual person and is seen as ending a rite of passage. Such divorces have sometimes taken the form of divorce rituals as far back as the 1960s. Divorces are largely seen as a life choice.