International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Year : 2018, Volume : 8, Issue : 8
First page : ( 470) Last page : ( 475)
Online ISSN : 2249–2496.

Archaeological and Mythological Delineation of Human and Spiritual Evolution and Religious Conflicts portrayed in the Novel The Source by James Michener

Dr Justin Z.

Associate Professor, Department of English, AMET University, Kanathur, Chennai

Online published on 5 August, 2019.

Abstract

Religion has contributed immensely towards the development of civilisation. However many civilizations were lost their traces from the earth due to an unabated religious conflicts. The gulf region is constantly at loggerhead with each other as it has become the warzone of the three most popular religions of the world. The political polarisation in line with ethnicity, race, language and religion has aggravated the conflict further affecting millions of people pushing them to the edge of destruction in their own land. The humanity in the region had been living under fear and many generations perished from the pre-historic past to the present. James Michener undoubtedly the great contemporary writer has tried to bring out the important source of all these ongoing conflicts. This article tries to explore the historical root of human evolution and spiritual growth and how the ideological difference and belief clash with each other and aggravated the religious conflicts. This research further highlights the parallel development of human evolution and spiritual growth and how the both collided with each other at the cost of human cataclysm in Palestine and Israel. The contemporary genre of hybridity of history, myth, culture is very well intertwined into one single plot. Moreover the article foregrounds that the conflict between the major religions had the source in common region where the Jews, the Christians and the Arab Muslims inhabited together for centuries.

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