scholarly journals Manajemen Komunikasi Sosial Penganut Agama Baha’i di Kota Bandung

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Umi Rojiati
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
God's Will ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
The Universe

This study aims to obtain an overview of Religious Experience. Principles of Baha'i Trust and Social Communication. Dogma and Baha'i Trust in Influencing Social Communication of Followers and Social Communication of Adherents of the Baha'i Religion with the Neighborhood Community. This research uses phenomenological methods and theories, qualitative approaches. The results of the study show that the essence of religious experience, namely sensitivity to the sacred, the religious experience is not only natural but also cultural. The Baha'i believe that God is the Creator of the universe, the apostles and prophets are intermediaries to channel God's will for humans through divine revelation contained in the holy books of various religions in the world. The purpose of the Baha'i religion is to realize spiritual transformation in human life and renew the institutions of society based on principles to the Essence of God, the unity of religion, and the unity of all humanity. From some of the teachings, goals, and visions of the Baha'i, the Baha'is in Bandung transformed themselves through their daily attitudes that are always friendly to everyone and open to the local community.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh gambaran mengenai Pengalaman Keagamaan. Asas-asas Kepercayaan Baha’i dan Komunikasi Sosial. Dogma dan Kepercayaan Baha’i dalam Mempengaruhi Komunikasi Sosial Para Pengikutnya dan Komunikasi Sosial Penganut Agama Baha’i dengan Masyarakat Sekitar. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode dan teori fenomenologi, pendekatan kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa, Hakikat pengalaman keagamaan, yaitu kepekaan terhadap yang suci, maka pengalaman religious bukan hanya natural tetapi juga kultural. Umat Baha’i percaya bahwa Tuhan adalah Sang Pencipta alam semesta, para rasul dan nabi merupakan perantara untuk menyalurkan kehendak Tuhan bagi manusia melalui wahyu Illahi yang terdapat dalam kitab-kitab suci berbagai agama di dunia. Tujuan agama Baha’i adalah untuk mewujudkan transformasi rohani dalam kehidupan manusia dan memperbaharui lembaga-lembaga masyarakat berdasarkan prinsip-prinsip ke Esaan Tuhan, kesatuan agama, dan persatuan seluruh umat manusia. Dari beberapa ajaran, tujuan dan visi umat Baha’i tersebut, para penganut Baha’i di Bandung mentransformasikannya lewat sikap mereka sehari-hari yang selalu ramah kepada setiap orang dan terbuka terhadap masyarakat setempat.

Apocalyptic Ethics, End-Time Christians, and the Storming of the US Capitol

2021 ◽  
pp. 095394682110313
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Duff
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Theological Foundation ◽  
The Cross ◽  
End Of The World

This article argues that an apocalyptic interpretation of divine revelation provides the theological foundation for discerning the appropriate space for human life to thrive. This apocalyptic theological ethic is contrasted with that of end-time Christians who have supported Donald Trump as God’s chosen one and who joined the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. It contrasts five features of apocalyptic thinking for both groups: (1) expectation of the end of the world, (2) ethics, (3) Christ, nation, and the first commandment (4) Christians and Jews, and (5) the cross. While the article seeks to give a fair description of the beliefs of end-time Christians, it argues that their beliefs have taken a heretical and dangerous turn.

scholarly journals COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MYTHOLOGICAL NAMES AND MYTHOLOGISMS IN THE ENGLISH AND UZBEK LITERATURE

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-21
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Social Views ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Positive Character

It is surprising that in English and Uzbek folklore and literature there are similarities in the expression of mythological images, despite the fact that they are from different language systems and different continents far from each other. British folklore is rich in a variety of images, which, with their distinctive features, have a place not only in English but also in world literature. Such images are distinguished by their versatility and have both negative and positive character traits. No matter which world literature we look at, we can find the translation of myths, legends, and fairy tales in that language which is the indication of how important role such images have in the world literature. The terms mythology, myth, and mythological names are defined differently in various sources. The types of mythological names, on the other hand, have been classified differently as a result of the research carried out by different researchers, each of which has been studied and analyzed comparatively. Studies have concluded that mythology was formed as a system of primitive worldviews and encompassed the philosophical, moral, and social views of our ancestors, the simplest scientific interpretations of the universe and human life, as well as the art of speech, rituals, and various forms of mythological thinking. This article provides a description of the terms myth, mythology and mythological names, their classification by various researchers, as well as information about mythological images in English and Uzbek literature, and comments on their classifications. In particular, information on the history of its emergence, the appearance of the image of witches, elves, giants, trolls, goblins in English myths and fairy tales in different forms and purposes is given. The mythological images of birds and dragons in both English and Uzbek literature have been studied comparatively. The reflections on their similarities and differences in English and Uzbek literature have been analyzed.

Plato’s Philebus

Classics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvain Delcomminette
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Hierarchical Classification ◽  
Cosmological Argument ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The World ◽  
Relative Neglect ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Universe

The Philebus is almost unanimously considered as one of Plato’s last dialogues, probably written around the same time as the Timaeus. Unlike other late dialogues, however, it takes the more conventional form of a conversation between Socrates and two interlocutors: Philebus and Protarchus. Philebus in fact refuses to discuss and remains silent for most of the dialogue, leaving to Protarchus the task of defending hedonism against the attacks of intellectualism championed by Socrates. The Philebus is a particularly rich and difficult work, which has often been viewed as messy. Although it has received the subtitle “On pleasure” since Antiquity, it contains, besides a lengthy examination of pleasure that notably argues for the possibility of false pleasures, a reflection on the relations between unity and plurality, an exposition of dialectic presented as a “god-given” and “heavenly” method, a fourfold classification of “all there is,” a cosmological argument purported to show that the world is governed by intelligence, and a hierarchical classification of the different kinds of knowledge. All these elements are integrated in a quest for “the good,” which at the beginning of the dialogue is identified to the best human life, but at the end seems to gain greater generality and concern not only human beings but also the whole or the universe. Are all these themes supposed to connect somehow, and if they are, in what manner? This question was already debated by the Neoplatonist commentators and was taken over by modern scholarship since the 19th century. Another question that has provoked scholars is the relation between the “metaphysics” exposed in the dialogue and Plato’s “unwritten doctrines” referred to by Aristotle. However, the greatest part of scholarship on the Philebus is currently devoted to scrutinize a theme or a portion of the text itself. After a relative neglect, this dialogue has indeed become the focus of much scholarly work during the last decades. The present bibliography had consequently to be highly selective and favors the most useful starting-points for further explorations of the wealthy literature devoted to this fascinating text.

Transcending Science

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Cottingham
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Actual Role ◽  
Relevant Evidence ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Religious Understanding

In many contemporary debates, religion and science are cast as rivals, supposedly offering competing explanations of the origins and nature of the cosmos. This chapter argues that we need a more “humane” model of religious understanding, one that is responsive to the actual role played by religion in the life of the believer. Understanding the world religiously is less about subscribing to explanatory hypotheses than about a certain mode of engagement with reality, requiring a moral and spiritual transformation of the subject. This has important implications for the appropriate way to philosophize about religion. Instead of an epistemology of control, operating through the detached evaluation of “spectator evidence,” we may need to substitute an epistemology of receptivity. In religion, as in many areas of human life, proper perception and understanding may require a process of attunement for the relevant evidence to become manifest.

Images at Work

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Independent Action ◽  
Rational Agents ◽  
The World ◽  
Action At A Distance ◽  
The Universe

Advocates of the ideology of modern progress and rationalism are fond of regarding human beings as rational agents and the universe as a collection of inanimate things that obey laws and do not exhibit agency. Yet evidence of nonrational practices of enchantment abounds in every part of human life: people commonly regard things as capable of independent action and expect the universe to respond to their desire for magic, miracles, and action at a distance. Clearly, rationalism is not as pervasive or singularly influential as some would insist. Enchantment consists of the things we do and how we do them to make the world go our way. This book argues that enchantment is not simply an irrational, primitive impulse that needs to be curbed or eliminated, but should be understood as problem solving. Images are ways of working on the world to achieve what people need. Images at Work explores how images operate, what their effects on viewers are, and how enchantment can be understood as visual dynamics that we need to take seriously. Enchantment is more than religion and is not identical with magic. And its effects are not fully discernible apart from its material culture because enchantment is about things and our engagement with them.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Zeitlin
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Crisis Situations

This book explores the poetry of everyday life and relates it to folklore, with the objective of helping the reader to maximize their capacity for artistic expression. It asks how we can tap into the poetics of things we often take for granted, from the stories we tell to the people we love, or the sports and games we play. It considers how poems serve us in daily life, as well as the ways poems are used in crisis situations: to serve people with AIDS, or as a form of healing and remembrance after 9/11. The book also looks at the tales and metaphors of scientists as a kind of poetry that enables us to better understand the universe around us. It includes a section dedicated to art in the human life cycle and explains the author's own conception of “the human unit of time.” Lastly, the book suggests ways to tap in to the artfulness and artistry of our own lives and how to find audiences for your work, to share your vision with the world.

scholarly journals Enterprise of fasting and vocation of a physician

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
Ilija Kajtez
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Effort ◽  
The One ◽  
The Universe

In this paper, the author considers the enterprise of fasting, in which the man faces the important issues of his existence, the purpose and worldly life. The author is aware that all social, philosophical and theological phenomena are very complex, profound and obscure and quotes the French philosopher and scientist Pascal, who claimed: ?We do not possess enough knowledge to?understand the life of human body?While in nature everything is closely intertwined ? No part can be recognized unless we have studied the unit. The life of each body will be understood only when we learn all that it needs; and in order to achieve this, it is necessary to study the universe. But the universe is infinite and it is beyond the human ability to grasp it??It is clear from this quotation that we are facing many complex issues whenever we try to reveal one of the secrets of Christian life - the secret of fasting. The second part of the essay has to do with people and the time we live in, the relations between believing doctors and their profession and whether and to what extent a believing doctor who observes fasts is closer to the Truth and Goodness that the one who does not believe. The author argues that the doctor who is a believer and who observes a fast seeing it as the time when values of human life should be put to test and the meaning of medical profession reconsidered is closer to the truth of Existence and love of the world. There is no duty that is more important for a modern, egotistic, materialistic man than resuming fasts. A fast as a profound rethinking of the whole of a human being, as a human effort, as Solzhenitsyn would say, to self-restriction, abstinence, nurturing of his own freedom.

scholarly journals Rabindranath Tagore’s Idea of Universal Humanism in the Light of Islamic World View

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Ichhimuddin Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Eternal Truth ◽  
Ultimate Truth ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
The Universe

Very few studies are available to understand the philosophical views of Rabindranath Tagore in the light of his attitude and realization of Islam vis-à-vis idea of universalism. Fact remains that the Islamic civilization has thoroughly been recognized in the academic circles but its depth and learning have not been studied up to expectation. European historians and philosophers seem to be hesitant to acknowledge the contribution of Islamic civilization over the centuries. Even a majority of Eastern scholars are critical about welcoming the actual merit of Islam. Rabindranath Tagore being one of the brightest stars in the galaxy of poets and writers made a serious study on the philosophy and writings of many Muslim thinkers and ultimately brought to our notice an extraordinary feeling about Islamic ideas and philosophy. Rabindranth Tagore seems to have sought the inner meaning of Islam and developed a kind of value- based attitude towards human life and the universe. It is likely that through his Gitanjali and Religion of Man (Manusher Dharma) in particular were presented with an objective to stimulate and guide men in search of Ultimate Truth and Oneness of God. It is said that Rabindranth Tagore was acquainted with the verses of the Qur‟an in his childhood and in this respect his father Maharishi Devendranath Tagore imbibed in him many theological aspects of Islam as a religion. The paper intends to explore how Tagore was influenced by Islam and as a poet-thinker he nurtured the idea of eternal truth from the Upanishads, the Tripitakas as well as the Bible and through a particular discipline and inner uplift he came to the conclusion that aggregate of essentials of diversity cannot be judged in the light of mere logic and arguments. This feeling seems to have prompted Tagore to find out the inner truth of the universe and side by side to propagate the idea of universal humanism throughout the world. Philosophy and Progress, Vol#61-62; No#1-2; Jan-Dec 2017 P 53-66

scholarly journals INTELLECTUAL RELIGIOSITY OF ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL IN A. MUSTOFA BISRI’S POETRY

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-345
Author(s):  
Abdul Wahid Bambang Suharto
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Language Usage ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Religious Poetry ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Islamic Values

This paper seeks to uncover A. Mustofa Bisri as a literary writer who “departs from Islamic boarding school” which conveys intellectual religiosity through poetry. The concept of thinking used in this paper by exposing poetry as text, the world of Islamic boarding school as a con- text, and the interrelations both in poetry and religious Islamic intellectu- als as contextualization. First, the intensity of the written poetry is based on the intellectualreligiosity in theIslamicboarding school, so it is reli- giously timeless, and beyond the limitations of language usage. Aspects of events, aspects of experience, and aspects of the view of life (weltan- schauung) unite in the particular language and culture. Secondly, the prin- ciple that the idiocencracy of religious poetry based on Islamic values in the form of a poetical language is important to mark one’s poet as the context of the poetical of A. Mustofa Bisri. It should be interpreted not only as a symptom of poetical language that breaks away from the mean- ing of poetry (the religious experience expressed and simultaneously dis- played in poetry), but also the dynamics interrelated between poets, po- ems, and cultural backgrounds that surround them. Third, the religious experience manifested in the language of poetry is the deepestform of religious intellectual abstraction, i.e., divined and cherished love. This condition is shaped by the crystallization of knowledge as an action in the deepest dimension of one’s humanity to voice inner perceptions. By loving God, people will love God’s creation, man and the universe, as he loves himself. By loving each other and the universe as God’s creation, a lover will treat himself as a person of faith and do good deeds, and remind each other to hold fast to the truth, and remind each other to be patient. The concept cannot be separated from the perspective of al-Qur’an and al-Hadith.

scholarly journals Memaknai Substansi Syari’at yang Membebaskan

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-100
Author(s):  
Yasid Yasid
Keyword(s):  
Driving Force ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Mechanical Function ◽  
Entire Series ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
Guide Lines

Shari'at is a form of manhaj (method) which is built to give birth to values that are very needed as a reference for human life on this earth. Shari'at is a overreached  movement  every text and expression as well  always work hard with any formed changes whatever happned in society. Therefore, neither all divine revelation texts contain dimension of shari'at  at the level of praxis it nor identical with the classic Ulama’s opinion which is created according to the needs of its time. On the contrary, the Shari'ah is the driving force for the style of community dynamism which is inevitably occurs as the movement of the world ball continues to accelerate. Thus, the Shari'ah is not synonymous with the dictums of Istinbath product law or principle of  Fiqhiyyah which contains the nomenclature of the Mujtahid's opinions. The other way, the Shari'ah is a mechanism of dialogue between the text of the holy teachings on the a hand and the struggle for social reality on the other. Therefore, Shari'ah at the level of substance is always up-to-date at all times because  itself has a mechanical function to update the entire series of changes and developments that occur in the community. Shari'ah is a method that processed creating laws without freezing the law itself. Shari'at is a spirit that continued creating guide lines and rolled out interpretations,  updates,  anddissolving in the ice of thought.

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