Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Evan F. Kuehn
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Late Work ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Made In

Although Troeltsch is often read as merely a voice of criticism in theology, this book argues that he makes an important constructive contribution to theology, namely, an eschatological conception of the Absolute. Two points of clarification are made in order to curtail skepticism in areas where misconceptions about Troeltsch’s theological project may arise. First, the book distinguishes Troeltsch’s critique of absoluteness in the history of religions from his idea of the Absolute itself, which is the proper focus of the current study. Second, the coherence of Troeltsch’s theological project, even into his late work on the philosophy of history and his posthumous lectures on world religions, is explained.

Feeling, Representation, and Practice in Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Philosophical Project

This chapter examines one of the most contested elements of Hegel’s corpus, his mature treatment of religion in his Berlin Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion. Emphasizing the need to approach the lectures in context, this chapter first situates Hegel’s philosophy of religion within his larger philosophical project. Doing so both illuminates why the material’s significance has been so debated and highlights what should and should not be assumed at the outset of the lectures. Paying careful attention to Hegel’s structuring of the project, the chapter works through his treatments of the concept of religion, cognition of the absolute, religious practice, the history of religions, and Christianity. The analysis of part two of the lectures, Determinate Religion, closely examines Hegel’s conception of the manifestation of religion. The treatment of the Christian cultus, or community, stresses the connection Hegel develops (by 1827) between this community and modern social and political life.

scholarly journals The Mask of the Underworld Daemon—Some Remarks on the Perseus-Gorgon Story

1955 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Croon
Keyword(s):  
Major Part ◽  
Hot Springs ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Greek World ◽  
Made In

At the VIIth Congress for the History of Religions, held at Amsterdam in 1950, the central question was posed whether a mythical-ritual pattern could be discerned in various ancient and modern civilisations. Reading the Congress Report, one does not get the impression that many final and far-reaching conclusions have been reached. Various conflicting views were brought forward in the section-meetings. But meanwhile the discussion goes on. And it may be not without interest to inquire into some individual cases where a ritual background behind some famous myth can be reconstructed, if not beyond all doubt, at least with a high degree of probability. In the following pages such an attempt is made in the case of the Seriphian Perseus-legend.The present writer believes that there is a clue to the understanding of this story, which has been overlooked hitherto, namely its connexion with hot springs. A certain number of cults, myths, and legends were connected with such springs in the ancient Greek world; that they all show in origin a chthonic aspect is self-evident. But to dwell upon all of them would fall beyond the scope of this article. Let us for the present moment turn our attention to the thermal springs of that tiny piece of rock in the Aegean round which a major part of the Perseus-story centres.

Religion and Animals

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron S. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Animal Studies ◽  
Animal Ethics ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Animal

What do animals have to do with religion? This article answers this broad question with special attention to issues related to animal ethics and animal philosophy. Topics covered include the religious dimension of human-animal relationships; the role of animals in human self-imagination; the formation of religions based on human-animal relationships, especially in responding to the dilemmas and tensions raised by killing animals for food and sacrifice; and central issues in the method and theory of critically studying animals and religion. Working at the intersection of the history of religions and animal studies, this essay provides grounding in the subfield of “animals and religion,” as well as references to a wide range of work on the study of animals. The article also cites studies of the subject in both the religions of traditional peoples, including the Cree, Koyukon, Naxi, Nivkhi, and Tuvan, and the so-called world religions, including Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions; Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions; and Daoist traditions.

scholarly journals Mircea Eliade y la Historia de las Religiones. Lecturas y aportes para una difusión historiográfica / Mircea Eliade and the History of Religions. Readings and Contributions for a Historiographical Dissemination

2017 ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Patricio Iván Pantaleo
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Current Analysis ◽  
Mircea Eliade ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Deep Significance ◽  
Cultural Connotations ◽  
Made In

This paper has as main purpose to review and discuss the principal contributions made in the field of the history of religions during the 20th century with the emphasis in one of its foremost and more discussed representatives, the Romanian intellectual Mircea Eliade. We shall defend that this field, somewhat marginalized today, offers a general and comparative perspective of the religious phenomenon that enables to highlight its cultural connotations and deep significance, beyond a political and memory viewpoint. This contributes in this way to provide more complexity to current analysis of religion.Key WordsHistory of religions, Mircea Eliade, comparative method.ResumenEste artículo tiene como propósito principal el revalorizar y poner en discusión las aportaciones realizadas en el siglo veinte en el campo de la historia de las religiones, con el acento puesto en uno de sus principales y más discutidos representantes, el intelectual rumano Mircea Eliade. En el texto defendemos que dicho terreno, un tanto marginado hoy, ofrece una óptica generalista y comparativa del fenómeno religioso, lo que que permite el estudio de este en sus connotaciones culturales y en su significado profundo, más allá del punto de vista político y memorial. Se contribuye de ese modo a arrojar complejidad a los análisis actuales sobre la religión.Palabras claveHistoria de las religiones, Mircea Eliade, método comparado.

scholarly journals CHRISTIANITY AND THE ENCOUNTER OF WORLD RELIGIONS. CONSIDERATIONS TO A CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY OF RELIGION

Correlatio ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Christian Danz
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Basic Problem ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Theory Of Religion ◽  
Exchange Processes ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Normative Criterion ◽  
Normative Perspective

A basic problem of the contemporary religious-theological discussion may consist in the task of connecting a methodically sensitive cultural-hermeneutical theory of religion with a normative perspective. This task cannot be fairly developed either from theologies of religion oriented by the religious-theological triadic pattern of exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism, or from the conceptions of comparative theologies. In my essay, I take up this question and try to show further aspects for the present religious-theological discussion by means of Tillich’s lectures on Christianity and the Encounter of the World Religions. His contribution is a threefold one: (1.) Through the methodic assimilation of the concept of religion, the pluralism of religions becomes, in principle, recognized. (2.) The foundation of the history of religions leads to a differentiated perception of the complex interreligious exchange processes. (3.) Tillich’s theology of religion involves not only the recognition of religious pluralism, but also a methodological justification for a normative criterion for the evaluation of religions. In the form of six theses, I would like to answer the question of the consequences of what has been said so far for the reflection and treatment of religious pluralism within theology.

scholarly journals Fresh Evidence for Τ

1906 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 286-287
Author(s):  
F. W. G. Foat
Keyword(s):  
Lower Side ◽  
Silver Plate ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Made In

Since the appearance of my article Tsade and Sampi in the preceding issue of this journal, a discovery highly important for the history of ‘Tsade’ has been made in the course of excavations at Ephesus by Mr. D. G. Hogarth, to whose kindness I owe the following information.On a silver plate found in the primitive stratum of the Artemision, below the Croesus temple, there is an inscription in which Τ occurs thrice, in the words τέΤαρες and τέΤαρες forming part of sentences in Ionic Greek.The position of the objects found in relation to the Croesus temple makes 550 B.C., the beginning of the reign of Croesus, the absolute terminus of date on the lower side: there is, I understand, little doubt that the inscription belongs to the latter part of the 7th century B.C.

scholarly journals Scientific methodological laboratory for personal growth: pedagogical assistance and support

2018 ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Viktoriya Vasil'evna Nevolina
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Religious Cult ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Conceptual Core ◽  
Current Stage

The subject of this research is the phenomenon of mystical viewed in context of the history of religion and culture of mankind. Reference to the mystical experience attains special meaning at the current stage of civilizational development – the search for exiting the spiritual crisis. The “mystical” is typified as the “internal religion” opposite to the “external religion” – the religious cult and religious organization. Mysticism, being the inner part of religion, is identified with the most sacred knowledge and human feelings aimed at cognizing the Absolute. Mysticism is a conceptual core of the religious experience and the overall goal of any religious practice. Based on the conducted research, the author concludes that the evolution of religions took a path from magical to mystical. The magical (primal) religions are deprived of mystical beginning. The phenomenon of mystical occurs only within the national and world religions that recognize a human as a carrier of the absolute beginning. The peculiarity of current situation consists in the return to pre-mystical religious representations. The author determines the two types of mystical teachings – the immanent and the transcendent immanent. The importance of mystical religious first and foremost lies in development of the gnoseological abilities of a human, and then in the revolutionary psychological transformations of mind and personality.

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