Africana Esoteric Studies and Western Intellectual Hegemony: A Continuing Conversation with Western Esotericism

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-187
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Finley ◽  
Biko Mandela Gray ◽  
Hugh R. Page
Keyword(s):  
Western Intellectual ◽  
Western Esotericism

Russian cosmism and Western esotericism

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
I. Y. Alexandrov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Western Esotericism

International Relations Studies in China

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianwei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Intellectual Community ◽  
Ir Studies ◽  
Western Intellectual

This article traces the evolution of international relations studies as an academic discipline in China in the last two decades or so. Almost non-existent before the 1980s, IR studies has become an increasingly dynamic, sophisticated, and popular field of social science in both teaching and research. This is reflected in the growth of institutions, degree programs, scholarship and paradigmatic debate as well as interaction with the Western intellectual community in both theory and personnel. Nevertheless, the development of IR studies in China is still in its primitive stage and it must contend with various problems such as political control, a lack of well-trained scholars, inadequate funding, and ideational uncertainty.

Review of Medieval foundations of the Western intellectual tradition: 400–1400.

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-94
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Western Intellectual

Moderation and al-Ghazali in Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Taraneh Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Graduate Study ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Western Intellectual ◽  
Freedom Of Thought ◽  
Religious Other ◽  
Intellectual Independence

Turkish theology faculties are an important but understudied source of moderate Muslim responses to the challenges of modernity. Although it is strongly associated with questions of such Enlightenment values as tolerance and freedom of thought, modernity is also tied to skepticism, atheism, and pluralism. Thus one way to examine whether the label of “moderate” applies to a given case is to examine how such a position reflects both the positive values of modernity in addition to how it addresses modernity’s challenges. This paper deals with the resources for religious moderation found in the thought of al-Ghazali and how they are used and analyzed in modern Turkish theology faculties. By focusing on two recent works by Turkish theologians Mehmet Bayrakdar and Adnan Aslan, this paper explores skepticism, atheism, and religious pluralism. I argue that not only are both thinkers “moderate,” but that they also engage this label by using their own theological interests and interpretations of al-Ghazali. Both theologians were trained in Turkish theology faculties and did significant graduate study in Europe. Their work reflects an active engagement with the western intellectual tradition. Al-Ghazali plays a crucial – but not final – role in each of their responses to modernity and the western intellectual tradition. For Bayrakdar he functions as a symbol of Muslim intellectual independence, whereas for Aslan he serves as a fundamental resource for making sense of the religious “other.” Thus, a case is presented for the increasing relevance of Turkish theological responses to debates outside Turkey.

After Everything: Western Intellectual History since 1945

1976 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 850
Author(s):  
George G. Iggers ◽  
Roland N. Stromberg
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Western Intellectual

Freemasonry and Western Esotericism

2014 ◽  
pp. 277-305
Keyword(s):  
Western Esotericism
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