scholarly journals A Wayfarer in a Land of the Free: American Sufism in the Age of DIY Religiosity

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nailil Muna Yusak
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Islam In America ◽  
Islamic Movement ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Islamic Mysticism ◽  
The Face ◽  
Catalytic Role ◽  
Muslim Religiosity

This paper observes theological shift towards a personalized spirituality of Muslim religiosity in America. In the face of global resurgence of Islamic movement and its ambitious call towards purification, personalized form of Islam is strongly criticized to be deviant and a mere practice of heresy. Islamic mysticism or commonly known as Sufism gained more popularity in modern America for its stress on God’s mercy over exclusive legalism in understanding cosmic law and the divine consequences. Over the year, it has proven its catalytic role for a more peaceful interreligious understanding on account to reflexivity and cosmopolitan consciousness. Drawing from a recent scholarship by Ulrich Beck on individualized religion, this paper explores; process of individualization of religion in forming modern American religious experience and the socio-cultural relevance of Sufism in shaping contemporary religious relation of Islam in America. Data utilized in this research draws upon interviews and observational fieldworks in the East Coast America.

True Church, National Church, Minority Church: Episcopacy and Authority in the Restored Church of Ireland

2016 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Rose Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
First Principles ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The People ◽  
Church Hierarchy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Church Of Ireland ◽  
The Face ◽  
Political Realities ◽  
The Church

The Church of Ireland in the later seventeenth century faced many challenges. After two decades of war and effective suppression, the church in 1660 had to reestablish itself as the national church of the kingdom of Ireland in the face of opposition from both Catholics and Dissenters, who together made up nearly ninety percent of the island's population. While recent scholarship has illuminated Irish protestantism as a social group during this period, the theology of the established church remains unexamined in its historical context. This article considers the theological arguments used by members of the church hierarchy in sermons and tracts written between 1660 and 1689 as they argued that the Church of Ireland was both a true apostolic church and best suited for the security and salvation of the people of Ireland. Attention to these concerns shows that the social and political realities of being a minority church compelled Irish churchmen to focus on basic arguments for an episcopal national establishment. It suggests that this focus on first principles allowed the church a certain amount of ecclesiological flexibility that helped it survive later turbulence such as the non-jurors controversy of 1689–1690 fairly intact.

scholarly journals [The Religiosity of Muslim Who Participates in Tauhidic Science Education] Religiositi Bagi Murid Muslim Aliran Sains Yang Mengikuti Pendidikan Sains Secara Tauhidik

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 256-265
Author(s):  
Zainun Mustafa ◽  
Nooraida Yakob
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Moderate Level ◽  
Islamic Science ◽  
Muslim Religiosity ◽  
Religious Personality

Abstract This article discusses the findings of a study that measures the level of religiosity of students who participated in a tauhidic science education program for six months. The study aims to gauge the worldview and personality of students after being exposed with science education interdisciplinary with Islamic religious education. This study employs the set of Muslim Religiosity Personality Index (MRPI). Based on the findings of this study, this group of students has a moderate level of Islamic Worldview, but high Religious Personality. The findings of this study provide information about the religious experience among students based on the program in which they have enrolled. Keywords: Religiosity, MRPI, worldview, personality, Islamic Science   Abstrak Artikel ini membincangkan dapatan kajian yang mengukur tahap religiositi murid yang mengikuti    program pendidikan Sains secara tauhidik selama enam bulan. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk memahami tahap pandangan hidup dan personaliti murid yang mengikuti pendidikan Sains secara inter disiplin dengan pendidikan agama Islam. Kajian ini menggunakan set Muslim Religiosity Personality Index (MRPI). Berdasarkan dapatan kajian, kumpulan murid ini mempunyai tahap Islamic Worldview yang sederhana, namun Religious Personality yang tinggi. Dapatan kajian ini memberikan maklumat tentang pengalaman beragama dalam kalangan murid dan berkenaan program yang telah dijalankan.  Kata Kunci: Religiositi, MRPI, pandangan hidup, Personaliti, Sains Islam  

From the Double Movement to the Double Danger: Kierkegaard and Rebounding Violence

2009 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-352
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Bagger
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Soren Kierkegaard ◽  
The Other ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
The Face ◽  
Selection Of

In the introduction to Prey into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience, Maurice Bloch makes some forthright admissions about the methodological and theoretical pitfalls threatening a project of the scope he undertakes in this slim, provocative volume. He acknowledges, for instance, the temptation, when arguing for what he describes as a “quasi-universal” religious structure, to present “a tendentious selection of examples, and make this structure appear to be present everywhere.”1 In the face of this danger, independent readers, who “choose to continue the exercise by trying to see whether what is proposed here stands up to the test of the other cases they know” become the most important critical constraint.2 In what follows I test Bloch's theory of rebounding violence against the thought of Søren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish theologian.

scholarly journals RICHARD HOOKER’S WORRIES ABOUT THE MIND: THE PATH TO CERTAINTY

Perichoresis ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-49
Author(s):  
Rudolph P. Almasy
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Religious Doubt ◽  
Religious Truth ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Mind

ABSTRACT Focusing on two of Richard Hooker’s sermons, “Certaintie and Perpetuitie of Faith in the Elect” and “Learned Sermon of the Nature of Pride”, this essay explores Hooker’s worries about how the mind reacts to matters of religious doubt, curiosity, arrogance, and mental confusions. These worries of what enters the mind influence the search for what Hooker calls the certainty of adherence (faith) and the certainty of evidence (knowledge). Such worries, prompted by what Hooker sees as the mind’s frag- ileness in the face of religious experience and religious truth, lead Hooker in the sermons, as well as in his Ecclesiasticall Lawes, to a certain religious and rhetorical position which emphasizes the notion of approaching faith and knowledge in terms of simplicity or singleness. This approach, Hooker counsels, should lead the potentially confused mind, regardless of the certainty it seeks and of the influence of the Holy Spirit, toward the notion of surrender-to God or to the rhetor.

Mantra: a Review Essay on Islam in Soviet Central Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-433
Author(s):  
Eren Tasar
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Muslim Religiosity ◽  
Soviet Central Asia

Abstract This paper traces the development of the historiography of Islam in Soviet Central Asia from the Cold War’s outset to the present by illustrating its uncritical reproduction of modernist and communist templates for describing Muslim religiosity, and its debt to two foundational frames of Soviet antireligious propaganda: “survivals” and “nationalized Islam.” It highlights the important implications of these frames for this scholarship’s development, i.e., its assumptions concerning “normativity” and the “poverty” of Central Asian Islam, as well as the urban-rural divide’s salience in religious life. The essay concludes with a survey of recent scholarship on the subject.

Anxiety and the Rise of Religious Experience

1975 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Harold Ellens
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Human Personality ◽  
The Face ◽  
Human Problem ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Do So

Humans everywhere worship. To do so seems native to human personality. Liturgies of worship grow out of psychological and spiritual sources deep within the human personality. Those psychic (psyche) sources of human religion are closely related to the native human anxiety patterns discernible in human personality. Some forms of worship and religion meet the deep human psychic needs better than other forms. Most religious practices in human life and history reinforce the anxiety of man through the frustrating dynamics of guilt and the sense of the ultimate helplessness in the face of human morality problems and mortality threat. Authentic Judeo-Christianity is unique in its gospel of grace. That cuts to the center of the human problem with the assurance of both the meaningfulness of life and the promise of immortality. Distinguishing between what is authentic spirituality and what is psychic pathology is, therefore, crucial.

scholarly journals Phenomenology and the Possibility of Religious Experience

Open Theology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald L. Mercer
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Theological Turn ◽  
Human Situation ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way ◽  
Idea Of God

AbstractWork in what has been known as the theological turn in French phenomenology describes the way in which human beings are always, already open to a religious encounter. This paper will focus on Levinas as a proper transcendental phenomenologist as would be characterized by parts of Husserl and Husserl’s last assistant Eugen Fink. What Levinas does in his phenomenology of the face/other (which gets tied up in religious language) is to describe an absolute origin out of which the subject arises. This point of origin structures the self in such a way as to always, already be open to that which overflows experience and, thus, makes possible the very experience of an encounter with the numinous. Such an approach to religious experience for which I am arguing simply takes Levinas at his word when he declares “The idea of God is an idea that cannot clarify a human situation. It is the inverse that is true.” (“Transcendence and Height”) Understanding the structure of the subject as open to that which cannot be reduced/totalized/ encapsulated is to recognize that the human situation is ready for the possibility of religious experience.

Group Resilience: The Place and Meaning of Relational Pauses

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 1409-1429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle A. Barton ◽  
William A. Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Resilience ◽  
Group Relations ◽  
Reflective Process ◽  
Conceptual Frame ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Face ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Trajectory Group ◽  
Operational Impacts ◽  
Shed Light

Recent scholarship on resilience has shed light on the processes by which organizations absorb strain and maintain functioning in the face of adversity. These theories, however, often focus on the operational impacts of adversity without accounting for the strain it puts on organizational members and their abilities to work effectively together. We apply a relational lens to better understand how adversity, and the anxiety it triggers in people, affects processes of organizational resilience. This conceptual frame enables us to begin uncovering the relational micro-dynamics underlying the absorption of strain. Drawing on group relations theory, we describe two trajectories of intragroup behavior in which strain, in the form of adversity-triggered anxiety, is either acted out or defused. In the brittle trajectory, group members react to anxiety with defensive patterns that leave them vulnerable to effects of adversity. In the resilience trajectory, groups defuse and mitigate adversity-triggered anxiety through a reflective process we call “a relational pause,” ultimately leaving them strengthened and resilient. We elaborate the model by exploring the potential fragility of relational pauses and likely factors that influence groups’ ability and tendency to enact resilience.

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