scholarly journals Rumi whirling in a secular age: Applying medieval Sufi wisdom to the questions of our day

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold M. Meiring
Keyword(s):  
Practical Theology ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Persian Literature ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
Secular Age ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Qualitative Literature

In a secular society, obsessed with materialism and consumerism, the 13th-century mystical teacher and poet, Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273), has found a surprisingly widespread following. While his work is often misunderstood and diluted, this research proposed the opposite: that Rumi may broaden his modern admirers’ worldview and bring about an encounter with God. This study thus applied the insights of an 800-year-old mystic to the questions of today. The research comprised of a qualitative literature research method that first explored the life and writings of Rumi, and then investigated the issues and yearnings of a secular society as proposed by philosopher Charles Taylor. The study showed that Rumi may indeed open up the enclosed secular worldview by adding significance to our living, God to our loving and hope to our dying.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article was a study in religion – applying the work of a medieval Sufi mystic to the philosophical questions of today. It also considered Anatolian history and Persian literature and offered philosophical options. It further related to missiology, as well as systematic and practical theology.

Secolarizzazione ed "Exclusive humanism" in Charles Taylor

2009 ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Leonardo Allodi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
Secular Age ◽  
Biological Reductionism

- The aim of this essay is to examine the theory of secularisation process developed by Charles Taylor in his work, "A Secular Age". With this work an ambitious project is pursued: to offer a new point of view by which to construct a different image of secularisation. Taylor wants to understand the new socio-cultural conditions in which the moral and spiritual search of believers and non-believers develops. The process of modernisation of Western societies, in fact, has not only produced conceptions that are hostile to religion (jacobinism, marxism, anarchism) and conditions which have often made many of the old religious practices impossible, but have also led to creative adaptations of religious experience to the changed sociological conditions. The history of secularisation therefore demonstrates the "improbability" that autonomous religious aspiration has disappeared. Even in the framework of a secular society, religion represents an "anthropological universal". Taylor's theory of secularisation presents a notable affinity with all those theories which refute any form of sociological or biological reductionism, assuming the original nature of the religious phenomenon.Keywords: exclusive humanism, secularization, neutralization, religion, modernity

scholarly journals Religion at Play

Pneuma ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Vondey
Keyword(s):  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Secular World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Secular Age

Abstract Pentecostals do not fit the dominant narrative of a secular age constructed by Charles Taylor. Instead, Pentecostalism is a religion at play that engages with the secular without accepting its authority. A critical dialogue with Taylor’s foundational proposal of the central conditions of premodern life that have made room for our modern secular world demonstrates how and why these conditions are not met in Pentecostalism. The article then identifies the alternative mechanisms in place in Pentecostalism as a form of religion at play manifested in an enchanted worldview, sociospiritual attachment, the festival of Pentecost, the transformation of secular time, and a porous cosmos. A close examination of the notion of play in Taylor’s narrative illuminates in more detail the ill fit of Pentecostalism in the history of a secular age and reveals that Pentecostalism represents a condition of religion that resolves the tension between sacred and secular and that challenges the dominance of “secular” and “religious” as uncontested ideas of our modern world.

scholarly journals Pengawasan Internal Perspektif Maqāṣid Al-Syarīʻah (Analisis Peraturan Pemerintah No. 60 Tahun 2008 tentang Sistem Pengendalian Intern Pemerintah)

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 262
Author(s):  
Jabbar Sabil ◽  
Rizkaul Hasanah ◽  
Arifin Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Public Fund ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Normative Approach ◽  
Internal Control System ◽  
The Government ◽  
Internal Supervision

Abstrak: Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana perspektif maqāṣid al-syarīʻah terhadap pengawasan internal yang terkandung dalam Peraturan Pemerintah No. 60 Tahun 2008 tentang Sistem Pengendalian Intern Pemerintah. Penelitian dilakukan dengan metode penelitian kepustakaan dengan pendekatan yuridis-normatif yang dipadukan dengan pendekatan maqāṣidī. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pengawasan internal secara maqāṣid al-syarīʻah, dianggap sebagai bagian dari al-maṣlaḥah al-ḥājjiyyah, dan berfungsi sebagai wasā‟il (sarana). Pengawasan internal merupakan sarana untuk memudahkan penyelenggaraan pelayanan publik supaya dapat berjalan sesuai dengan aturan yang telah Allah tetapkan. Pengawasan internal merupakan bagian dari pemeliharaan agama dan harta dalam wujud pelaksanaan amar makruf nahi mungkar dan pertanggung  jawaban  terhadap  amanah  serta  pemeliharaan  atas  harta  umum  (public  fund). Sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahwa secara umum konsep pengawasan internal yang diamanahkan dalam Peraturan Pemerintah tersebut telah sesuai dengan apa yang diinginkan oleh syarak, hanya saja masih harus dilakukan penyempurnaan pada sistem pengawasannya agar apa yang diinginkan oleh syarak dapat terimplementasi dengan baik.Abstract: The aim of the research is to find out how the perspective of maqāṣid al-syarīʻah towards internal supervision contained in Government Regulation No. 60 of 2008 About the Government Internal Control System. The study was conducted with a literature research method with a juridical-normative approach combined with the maqāṣidī approach. The results showed that internal supervision by maqāṣid al-syarīʻah, was considered as part of al-maṣlaḥah al-jiājjiyyah, and functioned as wasā'il (means). Internal supervision is a means to facilitate the implementation of public services so that they can run according to the rules that God has set. Internal supervision is part of the maintenance of religion and assets in the form of the implementation of amar makruf nahi mungkar and accountability for the mandate and maintenance of public assets (public funds). So it can be concluded that in general the concept of internal supervision mandated in the Government Regulation is in accordance with what is desired by the sharak, only that improvements must be made to its monitoring system so that what is desired by the sharak can be implemented properly.

scholarly journals Konsep Islam Wasathiyah Sebagai Wujud Islam Rahmatan lil ‘alamin: Peran Nu dan Muhammadiyah dalam Mewujudkan Islam Damai di Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Zainun Wafiqatun Niam
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Great Support ◽  
The One ◽  
The Universe

The one of anxieties facing Muslims is about acts of violence in the name of Islam. Qur'an has mentioned that the Prophet was sent on earth as a mercy (rahmah) to the universe, and then the “rahmah” in question is to be implemented as such? Indonesia as a country with the largest Muslim population in the world is famous for Islam that is able to merge with the diversity of race, religion and culture. One of the things that influenced one of them is the existence of the largest Islamic organization in Indonesia NU and Muhammadiyah who always try to show Islam wasathiyah and rahmah. The existence of NU and Muahammadiyah is believed to be a great support to the peace of Indonesia with all its diversity. This paper is intended to further explore the concept of wasathiyah NU and Muhammadiyah in an effort to realize a peaceful Islam in Indonesia. The research method used is literature research using resources such as books, journal articles and mass media to analyze the concept of Islamic organization NU and Muhammadiyah. The results show that NU and Muhammadiyah carry the same concept to show the peaceful face of Islam that can unite with the differences. This is evidenced by the concept brought by each of both Islam Nusantara and Islam berkemajuan.

Faith in a Fashionable Age: Abraham Kuyper and Charles Taylor on the Secular Nexus Between Mode and Modernité

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Stephen Covolo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Secular Age ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article examines two Christian thinkers who detect a close relationship between fashion and secularity. First, the article discusses Reformed theologian Abraham Kuyper’s suspicion that the French fashion of his day carried political, cultural and social capacities that reinforced secularization in nineteenth century Holland. Having considered Kuyper’s perspective, the article turns to contemporary Roman Catholic philosopher Charles Taylor’s understanding of fashion. Drawing on Taylor’s magnum opus, A Secular Age, the article traces fashion’s complicit relationship with secularity as a ‘fourth axis of simultaneity’. In spite of their very different historical, intellectual and confessional contexts, Kuyper and Taylor share a similar analysis of the secularizing power of fashion, thereby pointing a way forward for those seeking to understand the relationship between mode and modernité.

Charles Taylor, A Secular Age

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-355
Author(s):  
Arto Laitinen
Keyword(s):  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Secular Age

DIVORCE IN THE SIDE OF A MARRIAGE WITHOUT COUNSELLING

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
davidming ming
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Family Building ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Harmonious Family

The author gives the purpose of writing to discuss the crisis in the household, rebuild the household and give Christian values in counteracting divorce. The author uses descriptive literature research method data and provides research results: How a harmonious family can be established dynamically if we base our family building on the basis of strong Christian spirituality values accompanied by a fabric of good communication between us and our children. Surprisingly few studies have explored the implications of divorce happened because family can not be established, especially in young adulthood. This study addresses several theoretical arguments linking divorce in the side of spiritual value with reduced religious involvement in young adulthood and tests relevant hypotheses using data from a unique sample. Results show that divorce in the side of spiritual value is associated with substantially lower communicate religious involvement among young adults in their families house.

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