London

2021 ◽  
pp. 136-178
Author(s):  
Thomas Albert Howard
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Keynote Speaker ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
World Congress ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time

This chapter spotlights a major interreligious event that took place in 1924: the Conference on Some Living Religions within the Empire. It notes that the conference brought representatives from major religious traditions of the British Empire — excluding Christianity and Judaism because of their presumed familiarity — to London to expound before a general British audience the chief tenets and practices of their faiths. For many attendees, it was their first time to hear directly from a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, and a Parsi, among other religious voices. In addition to offering a historical account of this conference, the chapter discusses its legacy — the main one being the creation of the World Congress of Faiths (1936), the oldest continuously existing organization devoted to interreligious dialogue. It also pays close attention to Sir Francis Younghusband (1863–1942), the keynote speaker at the 1924 conference and the driving force behind the establishment of the congress in 1936. Ultimately, the chapter investigates why the conference deserves recognition alongside Chicago's better-known parliament of 1893.

Rome

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-234
Author(s):  
Thomas Albert Howard
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Marxist Ideology ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
First Time ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Church

This chapter takes a look at the Second World War's aftermath and its profound and enduring implications for interreligious dialogue. It recounts the establishment of The World Council of Churches in 1948 to help rebuild society and promote Christian ecumenism, later turning to interreligious dialogue. The chapter also examines how the war accelerated processes of decolonization, beginning with India's independence in 1947 and soon spreading to other countries in South Asia and Africa. It then discusses the global spread of Marxist ideology and the specter of civilizational annihilation wrought by the Cold War. Ultimately, the chapter reveals that, for the first time in conciliar history, the church exhorted its members to enter into “dialogue and collaboration” with members of other religious traditions. It investigates how the conciliar documents and papal encyclicals appearing during the council affected the church and the wider world in the postconciliar (and postcolonial) era.

scholarly journals Central and Eastern European Special Issue

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 355-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Levente Littvay ◽  
Julia Métneki ◽  
Ádám D. Tárnoki ◽  
Dávid L. Tárnoki
Keyword(s):  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Human Genetics ◽  
Eastern European Country ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
World Congress ◽  
Twin Research ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time

From November 16–19, 2014, twin researchers of the world will descend on the lovely city of Budapest, Hungary for the 3rd World Congress on Twin Pregnancy, held in conjunction with the 15th Congress of the International Society of Twin Studies (ISTS). It is the first time a Central and Eastern European country will host the congress. On this occasion, we were honored by the request from the editor of Twin Research and Human Genetics, Nick Martin, to put together a special issue highlighting twin research conducted in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

scholarly journals Maulana Tariq Jameel’s supplication for safety against COVID-19: A Pragmatic analysis

2022 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ali Shahid ◽  
Anser Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Discussion Section ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Supreme Being

Supplication, the symbol of man's humility, is at the core of all religions, with Allah regarded as the Supreme Being who listens to people's prayers and rewards them accordingly, regardless of religion. The purpose of this qualitative research is to look into the unique service provided by Maulana Tariq Jameel to God for protection from COVID-19, which is currently wreaking havoc on people's lives. On April 21, 2020, the program was broadcast live on the ARY News Channel's Shab-e- Meeraj programme, hosted by Waseem Badami, and was available to watch online. Devout Muslims from all over the world gathered for a specially organised 'Dua' to demonstrate their heartfelt humility and unwavering faith in Allah, who they believe will alleviate their deathly affliction as a result of their prayers. The video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSRuAo14NEI provided the data. The data was assessed using Aristotle's three modes of persuasion. The researchers paid close attention to the supplication during the study and coded the most relevant phrases before translating them from Urdu to English and analysed them from a pragmatic standpoint. The discussion section included references to prayers from a variety of religious traditions from various countries to integrate the study's findings. The study's findings show that when individuals, societies, or nations of any faith face a major calamity, they are more likely to be prone to Allah for protection than to other sources of protectionKeywords: Du’a, Persuasion, Religion, Staunch Faith, The sovereignty of Allah

scholarly journals The composition and characteristics of conscious environment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
ruiyu zhu
Keyword(s):  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Rational Reconstruction ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
The World ◽  
Spiritual Self ◽  
Systematic Understanding ◽  
Real Self ◽  
First Time

Although we are faced with a complicated and objective world, the conscious environment is the world that the spiritual self can directly perceive; the real self lives in the conscious environment. This artical discusses the composition and characteristics of human conscious environment. First, this article proposes that the conscious environment is composed of five aspects: conscious scene, experience circuit, emotional label, concept, and values. Second, it provides a discussion of the thinking, reasoning, beliefs, and the theory of use and disuse upon which the further growth of cognition depends. Finally, it explains other characteristics of cognition. For example, knowing determines perception, the easily imprisoned soul, its assimilation, and the limitations of one's own cognition. Moreover, the importance of emptying is recognized. This part of the article presents the concept of conscious environment for the first time and systematically discusses the influencing factors and characteristics of the human conscious world. Its purpose is to provide a preliminary and systematic understanding of the human spiritual world and to provide a theoretical basis for the following concepts: the natural driving force, the underlying thinking about life, and the rational reconstruction of the spiritual world.

scholarly journals Orality, Literacy and Translation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Panchanan Mohanty ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Driving Force ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
The Other ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Ancient India ◽  
The World ◽  
Free Translation ◽  
Opposite View ◽  
First Time

Though translation activities are more than two millennia old, the most significant activities in this field took place in the 20th century. To be specific, contradictory theoretical positions were taken and entirely new kinds of questions were asked in the second half of this century. Scholars like Susan Bassnett (1998) even claimed that a translation should be treated as an independent and original text. But a number of writers, translators and scholars hold an opposite view. If we consider the translation activities of the ancient western civilizations of the world, we notice that those were mostly commissioned and literal in nature. Contrary to it, the situation in India was different. Though Valmiki and Vyasa composed the Ramayana and the Mahabharata respectively for the first time in Sanskrit, the Ramayanas and Mahabharatas written later in various vernacular languages of India are adaptations or transcreations. A careful analysis of the European, Arabic, and Chinese traditions show that those were literate in comparison with the vernacular Indian tradition that was predominantly oral. This orality gave a lot of freedom to the writers in the vernacular languages in ancient India to be creative and compose new texts. Therefore, orality was the driving force for this creativity and some western scholars’ proposal that a translated text is an original text in not a new concept. The other point I would like to make is that contrary to the popular belief, a literal translation of a literary text is also appreciated more (Newmark 1988:70-71). This position is validated in two of our case studies, i.e. Mohanty et al. (2008) and Mohanty and Sarath Chandra (2014). Therefore, I want to argue that ‘free’ translation was the mainstream in the climate of orality and not in literacy. This free trend endorsed by those scholars who treat translations as original texts is peripheral in the contemporary literate societies in which translations are usually commissioned. I will also argue that the differences between the free and the literal trends in translation are primarily due to the oral and the literate traditions that prevailed in India and in the other parts of the world mentioned above in the olden days.

Classification of Types of Interreligious Dialogue

Communicology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-51
Author(s):  
S.V. Melnik
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Comparative Theology ◽  
Theology Of Religions ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
To Come ◽  
First Time ◽  
Original Classification

The existing classifications of types of interreligious dialogue have significant limitations and shortcomings and do not allow us to describe this extremely complex, multi- faceted phenomenon in a systematic and complete way. This paper represents original classification of interreligious dialogue, which overcomes the disadvantages of current research approaches in this area. On the basis of the «intention» criterion, i.e. the motivation that encourages followers of different religions to come into contact with each other, four types of interreligious dialogue are distinguished: polemical, cognitive, peacemaking and partnership. These types of dialogue are lined up respectively around the following questions: Who is right?, Who are you?, How can we live together peacefully? and What can we do to improve the world?. In each of the four types of interreligious dialogue using the criteria goal (i.e. tasks headed towards by the participants in the dialogue); principles i.e. the starting points, which determine the interaction), and form (i.e. participants in the dialogue) various sorts of them are identified and described. For example, the following sorts of cognitive dialogue are considered: theological, spiritual, human (Buberian), truth-seeking dialogue, theology of religions, theology of interreligious dialogue, comparative theology. According to the author, the presented classification allows for the first time to describe different types of interreligious dialogue in a complex, systematic and interrelated way.

scholarly journals On the History of Communication Development: the First Intercontinental Connection

2016 ◽  
pp. 183-198
Author(s):  
O. Zernetska
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Complex Analysis ◽  
World War ◽  
Communication Development ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

The first intercontinental links in the history of communication development that encompass the period between 1850’s and the end of World War I have been systematically detected for the first time in historical and political sciences. Special attention has been given to the global usage of telegraph by the British Empire which was the first country in the world to lay transatlantic and transpacific cables. The USA was the second in this competition. This means that these countries overcame the last barrier to world communications at the very beginning of the XXth century. Political, diplomatic, economic, commercial aspects of this dominance by the British Empire and the USA before and during World War I have been observed. A complex analysis of these communications usage (telegraph, telephone, radio) by the countries – main participants of this war for tactical, strategic, international and political purposes has been conducted.

Misunderstanding cultures

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 425-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
The West ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The World

This article aims to explain why the idea of the West is, for historical and philosophical reasons, an obstacle to dealing with the dangers posed by radical Islamists. Every proposed theory of the West has to account for the great internal cultural diversity both of European cultures and of those influenced by them around the world; and every serious historical account both of Europe and of Islam has to recognize the long-standing, substantial and ongoing interdependence of their intellectual and religious traditions. As a result, what is needed to face extremists, whether inside or outside Europe (and whether Christian, Muslim or neither), is not an opposition between Islam and the West, but an alliance of those of all faiths and none who can live with and tolerate cultural difference against those, wherever they live and whatever their religion, who cannot.

SEROPREVALENCE OF HIV AND HBsAg AMONGST BLOOD DONORS IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL, CHHATTISGARH.

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anusha P ◽  
Bankar Nandkishor J ◽  
Karan Jain ◽  
Ramdas Brahmane ◽  
Dhrubha Hari Chandi
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Hepatitis B Surface Antigen ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Laboratory Diagnosis ◽  
Blood Bank ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Medical College ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time

INTRODUCTION: India being the second highly populated nation in the world. HIV/AIDS has acquired pandemic proportion in the world. Estimate by WHO for current infection rate in Asia. India has the third largest HIV epidemic in the world. HIV prevalence in the age group 15-49 yrs was an estimate of 0.2%. India has been classified as an intermediate in the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) endemic (HBsAg carriage 2-7%) zone with the second largest global pool of chronic HBV infections. Safety assessment of the blood supply, the quality of screening measures and the risk of transfusion transmitted infectious diseases (TTIs) in any country can be estimated by scrutinizing the files of blood donors. After the introduction of the blood banks and improved storage facilities, it became more extensively used. Blood is one of the major sources of TTIs like hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV, syphilis, and many other blood borne diseases. Disclosure of these threats brought a dramatic change in attitude of physicians and patients about blood transfusion. The objective of this study is to determine the seroprevalence of transfusion transmitted infections amidst voluntary blood donors at a rural tertiary healthcare teaching hospital in Chhattisgarh. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This retrospective study was carried out in Chandulal Chandrakar Memorial Medical College, Kachandur, Durg. Blood donors were volunteers, or and commercial donors who donated the blood and paid by patients, their families, or friends to replace blood used or expected to be used for patients from the blood bank of the hospital. After proper donation of blood routine screening of blood was carried out according to standard protocol. Laboratory diagnosis of HIV 1 and HIV 2 was carried out by ELISA test. Hepatitis B surface antigen was screened by using ELISA. RESULTS: A total of 1915 consecutive blood donors’ sera were screened at Chandulal Chandrakar Memorial Medical College, blood bank during study period. Of these 1914 were male and 1 female. The mean age of patients was found to be 29.34 years with standard deviation (SD) of 11.65 Years. Among all blood donors in present study, 759(39.63%) were first time donors and 1156(60.37%) were repeated donors. 1 patient was HIV positive in first donation group while 3 (75%) were positive in repeat donation group. 7 (38.9%) were HBsAg positive in in first donation group while 11(61.1%) were positive in repeat donation group. Two patients in first donation group had dual infection of HIV and HBsAg. CONCLUSION: Seropositivity was high in repeated donors as compared to first time donors. The incidence of HIV is observed to be 0.2% and that of HBsAg is 0.94%. Strict selection of blood donors should be done to avoid transfusion-transmissible infections during the window period.

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