Self-purification one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
 Christianity makes a distinction between the true self and the false self, and sees the false self negatively, distorted through sin: 'The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?' (Jeremiah 17:9)According to Marcia Cavell, identity comes from both political and religious views
The first-person perspective distinguishes selfhood from personal identity

