scholarly journals Reading in Phenomenology: Heidegger’s Approach to Religious Experience in St. Paul and St. Augustine

Open Theology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 221-233
Author(s):  
Jonathan O’Rourke
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Early Attempt ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Early Approach

AbstractThe importance of religious figures in Heidegger’s early development has long been understood. Beginning especially in the WS-1920, with the Phenomenology of Religious Life lectures, figures such as Paul and Augustine played essential roles in his early attempt to move beyond the legacy of Cartesian thought. Despite appearing to secularize these accounts, Heidegger nonetheless implies that it is because of their religiosity, and not in spite of it, that they are of phenomenological interest. For this reason, the exact status of religious descriptions in his phenomenology has been a source of contention. My argument in this paper, is that this status is best understood by turning to Heidegger’s early approach to phenomenological reading. This approach, I argue, is grounded in a performative model of language, exemplified in Destruction [Destruktion], and defines the limits within which he can engage with the religious character of historical texts.

scholarly journals MEMAHAMI MAKNA RELIGIUSITAS/SPIRITUALITAS PADA INDIVIDU DEWASA MUDA MELALUI PHOTOVOICE

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Anita Novianty ◽  
Evans Garey
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Older People ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Self Identity

Early adulthood was indicated by exploring self-identity, including re-questioning the religion belief that was taught by nuclear family since childhood. Most of young adult perceived themselves or by older people as less religious, but spiritual. This study aims to understand the meaning of religiosity/spirituality from a) perspective of their own religion; b) perspective of other religion; and c) their religious experience. Photovoice was applied in this study with various background of participant’s religion including Moslem, Christian, Catholic, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Kong Hu Cu, which selected by snowball sampling. The result showed worship place and activities were mostly chosen as representation of the meaning of religiosity/spirituality from their own religion perspective as well as other religion. Whereas, moment in worship activity and personal experience where they can get through of difficult or unfortunate situation were representation of their religious/spiritual experience. From this study, we can conclude that the institutionalized religion is still play important role in young adult’s spiritual/religious life.

scholarly journals TAREKAT SYEIKH MUHAMMAD ARSYAD AL-BANJARI: TELAAH ATAS KITAB KANZ AL-MA'RIFAH

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Hadi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Colour Patterns

Development of Sufism in the archipelago is one icon in view of the problems connected with the Sufi. Sufism is the diversity of colour patterns of thought of religious life, while religious practice to be a representation of the diversity of religious thought to be highly variable and often decorated with the interview "controversial" a very sharp. In the context of religious institutions belonging to the tarekat also have a variety of variants, so that a diverse group of tarekat scattered every where and have the characteristics of each in accordance with religious discourse and the "religious experience" developer congregation. In fact there are some "differences" between the executive tarekat in an area with other regions, although with the same tarekat. Sheikh Muhammad Arsyad Al-Banjary as a prolific writer in various fields of Islamic sciences, such as Tawheed, Fiqh and Sufism. Among his works is the Kanz al-patterned ma'rifah Sufism, but in some discussion related to religious practices and traditions of the congregation are very close, but the Sammaniyah tarekat who had been brought closer to the Al-Banjary Arsyad not so visible in Kanz al-Ma 'rifah but Syaziliyah tarekat who are more visible.

The Triple Concordance system and Liu Xin’s ‘Grand Unified Theory’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Cullen
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Unified Theory ◽  
Grand Unified Theory ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
The World ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
First Time ◽  
New System ◽  
Depth View

In 9 CE, the powerful courtier Wang Mang deposed the infant prince of Han and took power as first emperor of his own dynasty. To help him sustain this claim, Liu Xin created what amounted to a Grand Unified Theory, in which all the important regularities of nature were explained with reference to numbers. We shall look in detail at the Triple Concordance system that resulted from this initiative, and follow through some examples of calculation based on it. Here we shall meet for the first time certain common features of all such systems. Liu Xin also undertook an ambitious project to use his new system to reconstruct the records of astronomical phenomena in a number of historical texts. Liu Xin’s work gives us an in-depth view of how one of the central figures in the early development of Chinese mathematical sciences saw the world.

Konsep Tuhan dan Agama Menurut Alfred North Whitehead

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-184
Author(s):  
Agustinus Nicolaus Yokit
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Process Philosophy ◽  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Main Issue ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
Actual Entity ◽  
Actual Event ◽  
Scientific Materialism

This article discusses the concept of God and religion according to Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy. The main issue is how to describe Whitehead's concept of God and its implications for religious life. Whitehead's critique of scientific materialism is an entry point to understand the characteristics of his thought. This criticism leads to Whitehead's cosmology in which each actual entity is in the process of becoming. God is not excluded from this cosmological scheme. In this way of thinking, God is the source of eternal objects or values. God experiences every actual event that occurs in the temporal world. Thus, God can be understood from two perspectives: the former refers to a cosmological frame, while the latter refers to religious experience. In Whitehead's language, God has two distinct natures, a primordial nature, and a consequent nature. From the perspective of religious life, Whitehead's concept of God seems to put more emphasis on divine immanence.

Empathy and Inter-religious Imagination

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Cornille
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Imagination ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
Phenomenology Of Religion

AbstractEven though empathy plays a central role in inter-religious imagination, the notion of empathy has become all but anathema in the study of religions, associated as it is with Romantic hermeneutics and with the early phenomenology of religion. This article revisits some of the early phenomenological approaches to the problem of empathy in order to explore their continuing import for the question of the possibility of entering imaginatively into the religious worldview and experience of another tradition and understanding it from within. Even though the religious experience of the other always remains beyond the purview of someone not belonging to that tradition, the notion of empathy continues to emphasize the epistemic priority of that experience in the process of inter-religious dialogue, thus stretching the imagination to resonate with new and possibly enriching forms of religious life.

scholarly journals Religiosidade e devoção em uma pequena cidade do interior de Minas Gerais

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (299) ◽  
pp. 545
Author(s):  
Thiago Rodrigues Tavares
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Rural Environments ◽  
Local Residents

Síntese: O catolicismo compõe os pilares formadores da sociedade brasileira, e, no meio rural, a religiosidade católica é caracterizada, amiúde, pela relação intimista e familiar entre devotos e santos. Considerando essa relação, este artigo apresenta o trabalho etnográfico realizado na cidade de Presidente Kubitschek, Minas Gerais, município com características rurais, que possui pouco mais de 3 mil habitantes, dos quais 91% se declaram católicos. Assim, pretende-se observar a experiência religiosa vivenciada por essa população, bem como identificar o culto aos santos e, similarmente, a uma “mártir popular”, uma pedinte, que, segundo moradores locais, após trágica morte, passou a realizar milagres. Ao final dessa pesquisa, busca-se concluir qua a vivência religiosa local apresenta características rurais e populares que compõem valores nucleares que influenciam na vida dessa população.Palavras-chave: Religiosidade. Catolicismo. Devoção. Culto aos Santos.Abstract: Catholicism is a formational pillar of Brazilian society, and in rural environments Catholic religiousness is often characterized by the intimate relationship between devouts and saints. Considering said relationship, this paper presents the ethnographic research conducted in Presidente Kubitschek, a town with rural characteristics and a little more than 3000 inhabitants, of which 91% are self-declared catholics. Thus, it intends to observe the religious experience lived by this population, as well as to identify the worship of saints and a “popular martyr”, a beggar who allegedly started to perform miracles after her tragic death, according to local residents. At the end, this research concludes that the local religious life presents rural and popular characteristics that compose nuclear values that influentiate this population’s life.Keywords: Religiousness. Catholicism. Devotion. Worship of Saints.

scholarly journals KEBEBASAN BERAGAMA DALAM ISLAM

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-64
Author(s):  
Tri Yuliana Wijayanti
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Personal Beliefs ◽  
Religious Plurality

Every human being is free to choose a religion according to his religious experience and in accordance with his personal beliefs. Freedom of religion also includes the situation conducive for people to choose religion (according to his) and to his religion without restriction and coercion from any party. The challenges of today's religious life in contrast to the issue of religious freedom and the fact of religious plurality. Religious pluralism urged all religions to think practically how to get along with other religious and theological interpret the meaning of the presence of religion and belief.

scholarly journals ON THE CHURCHNESS OF THE POPULATION OF THE KALININ REGION IN 1930-1950 (FROM MEMORIES OF «CHILDREN OF WAR»)

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-60
Author(s):  
Татьяна Геннадьевна Леонтьева
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Church Life ◽  
Social Link ◽  
Sociocultural Characteristics ◽  
Tver Region ◽  
Children Of War

В статье представлены предварительные результаты исследования в рамках проекта: «Церковная жизнь в советском обществе в 1940-1950-гг.: религиозные практики населения в Калининской области в воспоминаниях «детей войны». Обыденная религиозность рассматривается сквозь призму восприятия представителей постреволюционного поколения, рожденных в СССР в 1928-1945 гг. и проживающих в настоящее время на территории Тверской области. Для анализа их религиозного опыта привлекались материалы анкетирования, которые содержат социокультурные характеристики респондентов, отражают их личные воспоминания, семейные предания. Показано, что в условиях упадка церковной жизни семья приобретает черты социального звена, которое имеет сакральное значение: в его пределах протекает религиозная жизнь, совершаются религиозные ритуалы. He article presents the preliminary results of the study accordingly the project: «Church life in the Soviet society in 1940-1950: the religious practices of the population of the Kalinin region in the memories of «children of war». Ordinary religiousness was examined through the prism of perceptions of the postrevolutionary generation, born in the USSR in 1928-1945 and lived on the territory of the Tver Region at present. In order to analyze their religious experience the materials of the questionnaires, which contain sociocultural characteristics of the respondents, reflect their personal memories and family traditions, were used. It is shown that in the conditions of the decline of parochial life a family acquires the features of a social link that has a sacral meaning: religious life and rituals take place within it.

Four Keys to Understanding Religious Experience in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo José Suárez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Images

This chapter conceptualizes the basic elements of the Latin American religious experience. It argues that the most important religious expressions are “para-ecclesiastical agents,” sociological figures who administer religious life and the contents of belief, which result from a confrontation between distinctive cosmovisions and must be discussed in terms of—among other concepts—syncretism, mestizaje, and hybridization; the fiesta, seen as a space for creativity and, at the same time, as a logic of religious practice that reproduces rituals; and, finally, practitioners’ relationship to religious images and related elements that represent the sacred.

scholarly journals Why We Need the Demonic: A Phenomenological Analysis of Negative Religious Experience

Open Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 520-540
Author(s):  
James M. Nelson ◽  
Jonah Koetke
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Desert Fathers ◽  
The Demonic

Abstract An enduring feature of Christian religious life has been the experience of the demonic. This experience can be found in the New Testament, most obviously in reported encounters with demons, but more centrally in the language of spiritual warfare that pervades much of the Pauline literature. In the Patristic period, these ideas were cemented in the Christian tradition in the writings of the Desert Fathers. A phenomenological understanding of experience holds that percepts have qualities that are inherently given as part of the experience, and that these qualities can be observed through the use of phenomenological concepts. An examination of the writings of the Desert Fathers suggests that one inherent quality of some religious experiences is their externality. Thoughts or feelings within the person are perceived as having an external source, and external threats can take on an embodied quality in perception, as in visions of demonic beings. These experiences have their initial constitution in an Otherness centered in the body. On reflection, it is not surprising that we would find a quality of externality in religious experience. Religion and spirituality deal with our relationship to the broader world around us. Recent phenomenological writings by Levinas and Marion have begun to recover the importance of externality, however, they neglect aspects of demonic experiences such as their negative valence. Critics of the demonic have tried hard to expel the idea from Western consciousness, pointing to tragic experiences in early modern history and the apparent need to posit the existence of immaterial entities. However, a careful phenomenological and historical analysis casts serious doubt on this modernist picture. The abandonment of the demonic in much of Christian religious thought and practice carries negative consequences, as it invalidates the external quality of many difficult religious experiences. A recovery of the concept of the demonic would help us better understand the phenomenology of religious life.

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