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Question

Hi, there i'm looking at The history and culture of alcohol. it says this section looks at the ways in which different cultures and religions have dealt with alcohol throughout history. It will also compare drinking habits between the United Kingdom and other cultures.

It says: The use of alcohol by a different religion, for example islam,judaism, ect.

The use of alcohol by a different civilisation for example by the egyptians, incas, greeks, romans

The history of drinking alcohol in the United Kingdom

Please pick one of them and answer them! please help! i need as many people as i can to help me with this section! thankyou.

Answer 1

Alcohol is forbidden in Islam. The prophet Mohammed told Muslims to avoid all alcohol, which is why most avoid even the smallest amounts in cooking.

Answer 2

Throughout the first 1800 years of church history, Christians have shared the ambivalence of the Bible on the use of alcoholic beverages: they considered alcohol to be a gift of God that makes life more joyous but that must be used in moderation to avoid the sin of drunkenness. During the same period, Christians nearly always used wine (that is, fermented grape juice) in their central rite – the Eucharist or Lord's Supper.[1][2] Around the time of the Second Great Awakening, some Protestant Christians moved from this historical position of allowing moderate use of alcohol (sometimes called moderationism) either to deciding imbibing was unwise in the present circumstances (abstentionism) or to prohibiting all ordinary consumption of alcohol because it was believed to be a sin (prohibitionism).[3] Today, all three of these positions exist within Christendom, but the historic position remains the most common worldwide.

Check this link for more;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_alcohol

Answer 3

Well don't know a lot but remember learning in school that ale in britain was drunk instead of water as the water not very nice or good! This going back to before the romans came! This carried on till 19th century when they started to put taps in streets and in houses and started a proper sewage programme to carry away the waste water from the drinking water. Ale then is not the beer or lager that is drunk today, the Romans brought wine with them, but it was still quite potent. I wondered if they ever had hangovers as they always drank and couldn't of sobered up!

Answer 4

it might seem funny but I am sure word alcohol comes from arabic. but it is forbidden in Islam. I know that Greeks used to drink wine but they added water there as they considered it impolite to be drunk. I know romans had their vineyards near their villas. If u just think about geography of drinks it must be funny:
southern europe - is a region of wine ( France, where I live - it is a cult, Italy, even Austria, Spain and Greece)
east - I think it is more about vodka ( Russia, Germany - 'schnaps', Ukraine - 'gorilka')
north and center : It is about beer ( think about Munich especially, or Holland...)...
Hope I could help

Answer 5

Throughout the ages alcohol has played important roles both in religion and medicine. In its early days, alcohol was generally accepted and enjoyed by all as a means of socialising, marking momentous occasions and medical treatment as well as being used by religious figures to reach a state of ecstasy. However, as organised religion developed, alcohol's acceptability changed. Different religions had very different attitudes towards alcohol. In some religions e.g. Islam, alcohol was condemned. In others, for example Christianity, red wine became a central concept symbolising Christ's blood. The Bible itself makes many references to alcohol e.g. it "Maketh glad the heart of man, and of course of women". The Bible does not condemn alcohol just its misuse.

The use of alcohol in medicine has had a "rocky" relationship. Originally alcohol was seen as an elixir, providing the drinker with good health, pain relief and mood enhancement. For thousands of years it was prescribed by Egyptian doctors on such a large scale that by 1500BC 15% of all prescriptions were for alcohol. Patients in hospitals were given a glass of Guinness to build up their strength. Lots of tea total little old ladies have a 'medicinal' sherry every night! Alcohol has long been associated with mental institutions. Well known is Bell's Dyke in Falkirk where until relatively recently patients were encouraged to drink beer at lunchtime to help sedate them. However, this trend slowly started to alter as physicians started to link alcohol to a number of diseases and social problems. By the early 1900 Dr Rush documented the addictive behaviour of alcohol and in 1935 Alcoholic Anonymous was set up. With the growing evidence that alcohol was linked to disease and with the superior development of alternative painkillers and sedatives, the use of alcohol in medicine has greatly declined. However, the wheel turns full circle and recently there has been growing evidence that small quantities of alcohol can be beneficial to your health. While this is good news for those of us who enjoy a drink, the evidence is varied and debatable and more research is obviously needed in this area

Answer 6

Is the assignment for you to answer the question, or you to get the opinion of others? The questions appear to be information anyone could research and find, not how I personally feel about the issue.

I'm not clear on if you are asking others to do your homework for you, or if your assignment is to enlist other people and get their answers. Clarify please.

You can find the answers to those questions by putting your search engine use (which is what most other people would do if they were answering the questions).

Good luck!