The Unity of Maimonides’ Religious Thought: The Laws of Mourning as a Case Study

2017 ◽  
pp. 393-412
Author(s):  
Lawrence Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Thought

Documenting the Delusion: A Case Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-291
Author(s):  
Donald Wiebe ◽  
Luther H. Martin
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Naturalistic Study ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The University

This paper documents the lack of interest in creating an environment to promote a naturalistic study of religious thought and behavior at the Department for the Study of Religion (dsr) of the University of Toronto. Thedsr, it seems to me, simply exemplifies the point about the self-deception and delusion that characterizes many departments for the study of religion about their academic or scientific credibility that I make in the essay.

Entangled History and the Scholarly Concept of Enlightenment

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey D. Burson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Potential Applicability ◽  
Jesuit Missionary

This article considers the methodology of entangled history and its potential for nuancing or circumventing scholarly controversies over the nature and extent of the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century religious thought. After sketching the development of entangled history theory and its potential applicability to studying the Enlightenment, the rest of the article provides a case study of one way in which the insights discussed in the first parts of the article can be applied to current controversies about how historians construct the concept of Enlightenment. As will be shown, the transdiscursive entanglement of Jesuit missionary output with the debates between Voltaire and Bergier illustrates the mutability and rhetorical malleability of historical paradigms concerning the Enlightenment and religion.

Science and Religious Thought: A Darwinism Case Study. Walter J. Wilkins

Isis ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 734-735
Author(s):  
James Moore
Keyword(s):  
Religious Thought

scholarly journals SALAFI TRANSFORMATIONS: ADEN AND THE CHANGING VOICES OF RELIGIOUS REFORM IN THE INTERWAR INDIAN OCEAN

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott S. Reese
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Intellectual Milieu

AbstractThe Islamic reformist movement known as Salafism is generally portrayed as a relentlessly literalist and rigid school of religious thought. This article pursues a more nuanced picture of a historical Salafism that is less a movement with a single, linear origin than a dynamic intellectual milieu continually shaped by local contexts. Using 1930s Aden as a case study, the article examines how a transregional reformist discourse could be vulnerable to local interpretation and begins to unpack the transformation of Salafi activism from a broad, doctrinaire, and, above all, foreign ideology to an integral part of local religious discourse. It situates reform within an evolving Islamic discursive tradition that in part developed as a result of its own theological logic but was equally shaped by local and historically contingent institutions, social practices, and power structures. It thus explores Salafism as a dynamic tradition that could be adapted by local intellectuals to engage the problems facing their own communities.

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-109
Author(s):  
Todd LeVasseur
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Health ◽  
Social Health ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Religious Development ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Dark Green ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Church

This article argues that the religious thought and rituals of Reverend Billy Talen are a form of dark green animist religion and function as a response to perceived human destruction of the biosphere. An overview of environment-centered religions mobilized by concerns over planetary metrics is presented, followed by a case-study analysis of Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping. It is argued that the religion espoused by Reverend Billy is an example of how contemporary concerns for environmental and social health are influencing contemporary religious thought and production. The religious activism of Reverend Billy and his church, aimed at liberating life from “consumerism” and fundamentalism, presents an “ideal type” example of the development of Earth-centered protest religions that may be found at the margin of capitalist society. As evidenced by Reverend Billy, aspects of this religious development will be predicated upon anti-globalization discourses and concerns for ecosystem health and sustainability.

scholarly journals Peace Building through Religious Tourism in Pakistan: A Case Study of Kartarpur Corridor

2021 ◽  
Vol IV (I) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Muhammad Imran Ashraf ◽  
Iqra Jathol ◽  
Muhammad Saleem Akhter
Keyword(s):  
Peace Building ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Democratic Country

Pakistan is an Islamic democratic country where all the minorities as well as tourist from all over the world can practices according to their belief freely. Pakistan has many religious sites of shrines and temples. Gurnanak Sahib stayed his last eighteen years of his life at Kartarpur, Narowal, Punjab, Pakistan. His grave is located in Pakistan, just 3 km from the border with India. Sikh see this grave through a telescope across the Indian border of popular religious thought. The Government of Pakistan addresses the problems of the Sikh community, and the Kartalpur corridor in the Sikh community is innovative for the entire Sikh community. These Sikh communities can visit the holy saints of Kartapur without a visa. Fortunately, the first recommendation from Pakistan allowed us to see the whole event religiously. This step is not only appreciated by the Sikh community. Therefore, Pakistan is a peaceful country and treats other religions as an Islamic state. Every year including Muslims visitors from different countries come to Pakistan for holy shrines like Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhist and charistians.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Dual systems for all: Higher-order, role-based relational reasoning as a uniquely derived feature of human cognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Povinelli ◽  
Gabrielle C. Glorioso ◽  
Shannon L. Kuznar ◽  
Mateja Pavlic
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Reasoning ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Important Case ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Relational Reasoning ◽  
Dual Systems ◽  
First Order ◽  
Reasoning System ◽  
Role Based

Abstract Hoerl and McCormack demonstrate that although animals possess a sophisticated temporal updating system, there is no evidence that they also possess a temporal reasoning system. This important case study is directly related to the broader claim that although animals are manifestly capable of first-order (perceptually-based) relational reasoning, they lack the capacity for higher-order, role-based relational reasoning. We argue this distinction applies to all domains of cognition.

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