scholarly journals Psychology and Religion

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 97-116
Author(s):  
Amber Haque
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Religious Behavior ◽  
Psychology And Religion ◽  
General Overview ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Religion is a pervasive and influential phenomenon in the lives of m ypeople. Instances of religious behavior are easily found in almost allsocieties and cultures of the world. However, psychology, as a behavioralscience has largely ignored the study of religion and its profoundimpact on human behavior. This article attempts to explore the relationshipbetween psychology and religion and how these two disciplinesinteract. After a general overview of the relationship between thetwo disciplines, Islamization of psychology is suggested as a way outof the current impasse between psychology and religion.

The Philosophical Concepts in Ryszard Otowicz’s Bioethics

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Piotr Aszyk
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
The World ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Defense Reflex

This article presents a general overview of philosophical issues undertaken in the work of Richard Otowicz (1953–2003), Jesuit and Professor of Moral Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Warsaw. Within the set of views developed by him, the theological perspective undoubtedly assumes pride of place. Often, however, he refers to philosophical issues from which, in his opinion, one cannot escape—issues that bear directly on human life. What is especially striking is Otowicz’s hypothesis that bioethics is a kind of self-defense reflex of mankind, who are attempting by means of it to intellectually grasp the issues relating to the unlimited expansion of technology. Developments and changes observed in the world are forcing humanity to rethink very fundamental issues, such as interpersonal relationships or the relationship of man to nature.

scholarly journals Proprioceptive Perception: An Emergence of the Interaction of Body and Language

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandra Vasquez-Rosati ◽  
Carmen Cordero-Homad
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
The Body ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
External Space ◽  
Cognitive States ◽  
The World ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Behavior And Cognition

This chapter provides a systemic perspective of human behavior, which reformulates the concept of effective behavior and cognition that derive from the classical vision of neuroscience and psychology based on the Cartesian reductionist functionalist paradigm. This systemic perspective, which is based on the theory of autopoiesis, proposes that the act of perceiving proprioception is decisive in the capacity of the human being to differentiate himself from an external space within which he is situated; a phenomenon that we will denominate “proprioceptive perception”. This complex phenomenon of dynamic character emerges from the relationship between the domains of the body and language in the individual’s relationship with their environment. Furthermore, from this systemic perspective, we will present the emotional states as cognitive states necessary for the conservation of the individual’s living identity and the close relationship they have with the sensorimotor patterns and proprioceptive perception. This chapter answers the question of how proprioceptive perception affects the human being’s experience of being different from others and from the environment in which they find themselves, having the possibility of being aware of themselves and of the world they perceive - in a present - within the environment in which they find themselves. And it explains how this phenomenon modulates its modes of emotion in congruence with what occurs in its present.

scholarly journals Cultural Change and Human Behavior: Evolution or Development?

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Antonella Delle Fave ◽  
Fausto Massimini
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Cultural Inheritance ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ethnic Conflicts ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Active Participant ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

The study of cultures in today’s world has become a major academic exercise. There are many challenges and problems for human beings that are created by the relationship between cultural inheritance and individuals, namely, through modernization and globalization processes. ! e immediate outcomes of these challenges and problems are ethnic conflicts, cultural clash and other cultural competitions. In order to maintain peace in the world and foster the mutual cooperation among the individuals, each individual has to be an active participant in the attainment of a sustainable development of the whole human system. The main focus of this paper, thus, is to analyze human behavior, as a way of understanding underlying powers of the interplay of biology and culture. Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol.3(1) 2015: 41-52

scholarly journals Religion and Tolerance of Minority Sects in the Arab World

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 432-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Opposite Effect ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Behavior ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Piety ◽  
Traditional Assumption ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Personal Prayer ◽  
The Relationship

Does religious behavior always promote hostility toward members of other faiths? This article suggests that the relationship between personal religious behavior and religious tolerance is not so simple. Even in the Arab World, frequently cited as a center of religious piety and intolerance, different forms of religious behavior have markedly different effects on attitudes toward minority sects. Using both observational and experimental data from across the Arab World as well as an original nationally representative survey conducted in Lebanon in 2013 and 2014, I argue that while communal religious practice does indeed tend to promote intolerant attitudes, personal prayer has precisely the opposite effect. These findings indicate that the traditional assumption that piety invariably leads to intolerance should be rethought. Even in one of the most sectarian environments in the world, private religious behavior can have a substantial pro-tolerance effect.

scholarly journals Critical Investigations of Resilience: A Brief Introduction to Indigenous Environmental Studies & Sciences

Daedalus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 147 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Political Reconciliation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Indigenous peoples are among the most active environmentalists in the world, working through advocacy, educational programs, and research. The emerging field of Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences (iess) is distinctive, investigating social resilience to environmental change through the research lens of how moral relationships are organized in societies. Examples of iess research across three moral relationships are discussed here: responsibility, spirituality, and justice. iess develops insights on resilience that can support Indigenous peoples' struggles with environmental justice and political reconciliation; makes significant contributions to global discussions about the relationship between human behavior and the environment; and speaks directly to Indigenous liberation as well as justice issues impacting everyone.

scholarly journals Palavra de Deus no Antigo e Novo Testamento

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (284) ◽  
pp. 802
Author(s):  
Luís Stadelmann
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Thought Patterns ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Working Out ◽  
The Trinity

O artigo começa com a investigação do problema da hermenêutica da palavra de Deus, na época do movimento do “modernismo”, no fim do séc. XIX e no começo do séc. XX. Uma visão de conjunto da Sagrada Escritura trata dos livros da Bíblia como literatura funcional. A seguir, são abordados os arautos da palavra de Deus no AT e NT e seu papel na comunidade de fé. A influência da palavra de Deus, na faculdade do intelecto e da vontade, é determinante no comportamento humano. A tipicidade cultural do mundo hebraico e helênico desvenda os traços significativos dos respectivos livros bíblicos. Por fim, se analisa o prólogo do Evangelho de João para apresentar a pessoa de Jesus Cristo, como personificação da Palavra de Deus na vida trinitária e na relação com a humanidade.Abstract: The article begins by investigating the problem of hermeneutics concerning the word of God in connection with the crisis of the movement of “modernism” at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. A comprehensive view of the Sacred Scriptures envisages the books of the Bible as functional literature. The following chapter focuses upon the messengers of the word of God in the OT and NT with special attention taking into account their role in the faith community. Further, the influence of the word of God on one’s intellect and will is studied so as to find out why they make their each and every move determining human behavior. New insight is to be gained by working out the literary approach of the word of God in the context of disparate cultures and diverse differentiations which occurred both in Hebraic and Hellenistic thought patterns, which are exemplified in the biblical books of the OT and NT. In the final chapter the personified word of God by Jesus Christ is considered by a detailed analysis of the Prologue of the Gospel of John in order to ascertain the divine role within the Trinity and in the relationship between God and the world.

Kazakhstan’s Economic Growth in the Context of the World Economy

2006 ◽  
pp. 133-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Arystanbekov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World Ocean ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Crude Petroleum ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Kazakhstan’s economic policy results in 1995-2005 are considered in the article. In particular, the analysis of the relationship between economic growth and some indicators of nation states - population, territory, direct access to the World Ocean, and extraction of crude petroleum - is presented. Basic problems in the sphere of economic policy in Kazakhstan are formulated.

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Simone
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Existential Perspective

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf’s novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual’s connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual’s relationship to and with the world.

A Māori Girl Watches, Listens, and Learns – Coming of Age from an Indigenous Viewpoint: Mauri (Merata Mita, 1988)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Indigenous Woman ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Force ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines Merata Mita’s Mauri, the first fiction feature film in the world to be solely written and directed by an indigenous woman, as an example of “Fourth Cinema” – that is, a form of filmmaking that aims to create, produce, and transmit the stories of indigenous people, and in their own image – showing how Mita presents the coming-of-age story of a Māori girl who grows into an understanding of the spiritual dimension of the relationship of her people to the natural world, and to the ancestors who have preceded them. The discussion demonstrates how the film adopts storytelling procedures that reflect a distinctively Māori view of time and are designed to signify the presence of the mauri (or life force) in the Māori world.

On Metaphysics and the Political: A Polemics of Reading Baudelaire in the 1930s

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Joseph Acquisto
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This essay examines a polemic between two Baudelaire critics of the 1930s, Jean Cassou and Benjamin Fondane, which centered on the relationship of poetry to progressive politics and metaphysics. I argue that a return to Baudelaire's poetry can yield insight into what seems like an impasse in Cassou and Fondane. Baudelaire provides the possibility of realigning metaphysics and politics so that poetry has the potential to become the space in which we can begin to think the two of them together, as opposed to seeing them in unresolvable tension. Or rather, the tension that Baudelaire animates between the two allows us a new way of thinking about the role of esthetics in moments of political crisis. We can in some ways see Baudelaire as responding, avant la lettre, to two of his early twentieth-century readers who correctly perceived his work as the space that breathes a new urgency into the questions of how modern poetry relates to the world from which it springs and in which it intervenes.

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