Non-Duality, Play, and an Invitation

Loving Stones ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 226-246
Author(s):  
David L. Haberman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Difference

This chapter considers major philosophical tenets that circumscribe the particular Hindu worldview which supports and informs many of the conceptions and practices associated with Mount Govardhan—especially non-duality (advaita) and play (lila). It reflects on some of the implications derived from the interrelated concepts of non-duality and play in the context of the worship of Mount Govardhan, particularly as they relate to the possibilities they have to offer to the larger field of religious studies. What might non-dual play contribute to the study of religion that takes difference seriously, and what might be gained from engaging in such an adventure into religious difference? The chapter concludes with an examination of some of the environmental lessons that can be inferred from a study of the worship of Mount Govardhan.

International Religious Freedom

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Social Difference ◽  
The Core ◽  
Religious Difference ◽  
Religious Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Extended Discussion

This chapter develops three interrelated claims about the politics of governing social difference through religious rights and freedoms. First, conceiving and governing social difference through religious rights singles out individuals and groups for legal protection as religious individuals and collectivities. Second, governing through religious rights shapes how states and other political authorities distinguish groups from each other, often in law. Third, contemporary international religious freedom advocacy emphasizes belief as the core of religion. The chapter unfolds in three parts, each elaborating on various aspects of these claims through a combination of empirical illustrations and theoretical discussion. The first section on the global political production of religious difference draws on an extended discussion of the Rohingya in Myanmar. The second section on the creation of a landscape populated by faith communities and the effects on those excluded from such designations incorporates examples from the Central African Republic, Guatemala, India, and South Sudan. A final section on the mutually supportive relations between religious freedom advocacy, the creation of a believing religious subject, and the ideology of the free religious marketplace builds on the work of anthropologists and religious studies scholars who complicate the notion of belief as the core of religion.

Are There Any Religions? An Evolutionary Exploration

2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Bulbulia
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Basic Properties ◽  
Religious Difference ◽  
Evolutionary Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychological Inquiry

AbstractCommon sense holds there are distinctive religions, an intuition that informs most scholarship and teaching in religious studies and the social sciences, but the intuition is somewhat misleading. In spite of apparent religious difference, recent psychological inquiry suggests that religion emerges from a single panhuman psychological design that strongly constrains variation. There is some variation in the religiosity of individuals and groups, but not the variation of "traditions". This paper uses recent research in the cognitive and evolutionary study of religion to explore some basic properties of the mental architecture that generates human religiosity, including features that enhance the illusion of religious difference.

scholarly journals Navigating religious diversity: exploring young people’s lived religious citizenship in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Wood ◽  
Ben Laksana
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Young People ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Classroom Observations ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Religious Difference ◽  
Religious Conservatism

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Against the backdrop of several concerning reports which have noted growing socio-religious conservatism and intolerance amongst Indonesia youth, this study examined how school-aged Indonesian young people navigate encounters with religious difference in their everyday lives. Recognising the significance of religious and citizenship education curricula, the research included classroom observations and interviews with 20 religiously-diverse Indonesian young people in three purposively selected high schools in Jakarta. The paper reveals that participants in all three schools agreed that religious studies and their personal religious frameworks were central to their approaches toward religious tolerance. However, their lived everyday experiences of rubbing shoulders with religious ‘others’, expanded upon and critiqued the narrowness and rigidity of these frameworks and showed greater religious inclusivity. Through this analysis the paper integrates prior work on ‘lived religion’ and ‘lived citizenship’ to fuse a ‘lived religious citizenship’ concept, arguing that this adds depth to both fields by recognising that religion cannot be separated from the experience of being a citizen. A focus on lived religious citizenship provides a deeper account of individual identity and highlights the importance of qualitative studies focused on the living out of religion and citizenship.

scholarly journals Navigating religious diversity: exploring young people’s lived religious citizenship in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Wood ◽  
Ben Laksana
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Young People ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Classroom Observations ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Religious Difference ◽  
Religious Conservatism

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Against the backdrop of several concerning reports which have noted growing socio-religious conservatism and intolerance amongst Indonesia youth, this study examined how school-aged Indonesian young people navigate encounters with religious difference in their everyday lives. Recognising the significance of religious and citizenship education curricula, the research included classroom observations and interviews with 20 religiously-diverse Indonesian young people in three purposively selected high schools in Jakarta. The paper reveals that participants in all three schools agreed that religious studies and their personal religious frameworks were central to their approaches toward religious tolerance. However, their lived everyday experiences of rubbing shoulders with religious ‘others’, expanded upon and critiqued the narrowness and rigidity of these frameworks and showed greater religious inclusivity. Through this analysis the paper integrates prior work on ‘lived religion’ and ‘lived citizenship’ to fuse a ‘lived religious citizenship’ concept, arguing that this adds depth to both fields by recognising that religion cannot be separated from the experience of being a citizen. A focus on lived religious citizenship provides a deeper account of individual identity and highlights the importance of qualitative studies focused on the living out of religion and citizenship.

Section of Religious Studies in the "Knowledge" Society of Ukraine

1996 ◽  
pp. 54-55
Author(s):  
Petro Yarotskiy
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Religious Studies

The Society "Knowledge" of Ukraine began the activity of the Department of Religious Studies. The Council of Lecturers is formed consisting of 24 people, among them are well-known philosophers, historians, sociologists - religious scholars: Doctors of Philosophy B.Lobovik, M.Zakovich, A. Kolodnyy, Yu.Kalinin, P.Kosuha, M.Rybachuk, P.Yarotsky, candidate of philosophical sciences M. Babiy, S. Golovashchenko, V. Yelensky, M.Kyryushko, O.Sagan, V.Suyarko, L.Filipovich and others.

Center for Religious Studies and Expertise of UAR

1996 ◽  
pp. 51-52
Author(s):  
O. Karagodina
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Scientific Base

At the scientific base of the Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies, a Center for religious scholarly consultations and expertise was formed.

Christian editions for children in Ukraine (1917 - 1929)

1996 ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
N. Marchenko
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Scientific Circle

The Ukrainian book for children of this period and date remains little investigated link of domestic book science. Somewhere she is actually excluded from the scientific circle. In particular, in the realm of religious studies studios. And here it is indicated a number of promising areas of scientific research.

Materials for the history of the gospel-Baptist movement in Ukraine

1996 ◽  
pp. 4-15
Author(s):  
S. Golovaschenko ◽  
Petro Kosuha
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
Evangelical Christian ◽  
First Results ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fruitful Cooperation ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The report is based on the first results of the study "The History of the Evangelical Christians-Baptists in Ukraine", carried out in 1994-1996 by the joint efforts of the Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Odessa Theological Seminary of Evangelical Christian Baptists. A large-scale description and research of archival sources on the history of evangelical movements in our country gave the first experience of fruitful cooperation between secular and church researchers.

The phenomenon of religion

1996 ◽  
pp. 45-46
Author(s):  
Borys Lobovyk
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

"PHENOMENON OF RELIGION" - under this name on June 20-21, 1996, the All-Ukrainian Colloquium, convened by the Department of Religious Studies and the Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies took place at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The purpose of the colloquium is to discuss the topical issues of Ukrainian religious studies concerning the nature, essence and functionality of religion as a social and historical phenomenon.

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