scholarly journals Revitalization of Belief and Spiritual Development of Individuals against Materialist Philosophy: Appraisal on Risale-i-Nur

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Shumaila Majeed
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Spiritual Guidance ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Spiritual Training ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Universe

This paper investigates Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’s methodology for the revitalization of belief and spiritual development of individuals through Risale-I-Nur. It analyses Nursi’s concept of Human I, methodology of the spiritual training to save an individual’s belief from materialist philosophy, spiritual guidance for different segments of society, and understanding of ethical values in the Islamic context. The research methodology of the paper is qualitative. The study reveals that Nursi asserts that reflection on the inner world and understanding of human 'I', are a means to comprehend the reality of the Creator and man's role as His representative. However, Nursi's understanding of inner reflection and spirituality is different from traditional Sufiism on many counts. He advises believers to seek guidance from the line of prophethood as opposed to that of philosophy to protect themselves from materialist ideologies. The study also reveals that Risale provides spiritual guidance for almost every segment of society and advises the believers to see tribulations as an opportunity for their spiritual growth. Finally, the research concludes that Nursi sees the man and the universe as closely related wherein observing ethical values in the light of religion brings about harmony between the two.

scholarly journals Revitalization of Belief and Spiritual Development of Individuals against Materialist Philosophy: Appraisal on Risale-i-Nur

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Shumaila Majeed
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Spiritual Guidance ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Spiritual Training ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Universe

This paper investigates Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’s methodology for the revitalization of belief and spiritual development of individuals through Risale-I-Nur. It analyses Nursi’s concept of Human I, methodology of the spiritual training to save an individual’s belief from materialist philosophy, spiritual guidance for different segments of society, and understanding of ethical values in the Islamic context. The research methodology of the paper is qualitative. The study reveals that Nursi asserts that reflection on the inner world and understanding of human 'I', are a means to comprehend the reality of the Creator and man's role as His representative. However, Nursi's understanding of inner reflection and spirituality is different from traditional Sufiism on many counts. He advises believers to seek guidance from the line of prophethood as opposed to that of philosophy to protect themselves from materialist ideologies. The study also reveals that Risale provides spiritual guidance for almost every segment of society and advises the believers to see tribulations as an opportunity for their spiritual growth. Finally, the research concludes that Nursi sees the man and the universe as closely related wherein observing ethical values in the light of religion brings about harmony between the two.

scholarly journals The experience of intersubjectivity in feminist research: methodological perspectives

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 913-930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neiva Furlin
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Feminist Epistemologies ◽  
The Universe

This article aims to contribute to the studies of research methodology. To this end, we seek to reflect on the experience of an engaged research that clearly shows the influence of the researcher’s existential trajectory on the choice of her object of study, as well as the methodological perspectives that favor the experience of intersubjectivity in the production of knowledge. The ultimate goal is to show that scientific research can be conducted based on a methodological paradigm that breaks with the subject-object dichotomy. As a reference to this discussion, we take an investigation that sought to understand how women constitute themselves as female subjects of theological knowledge and what power dynamics pervade the processes of entering and constructing a female faculty career in a place marked by hegemonic discourses and gender logics of a male social order. Therefore, we emphasize the hermeneutic perspective, as it allows to capture the meanings that female professors assign to their actions and experiences in the universe of theological knowledge. Hermeneutics as a research methodology favor the production of knowledge that is not intended as universal, but rather situated, subjective, and open to new interpretation perspectives. Such characteristics are central in the feminist epistemologies that seek to demystify the pure objectivity and universality of knowledge, showing that the subjects of knowledge are always immersed in a certain situation, position, and circumstance, and that, therefore, no knowledge is produced from nowhere.

scholarly journals Human symbols and divine signs in Psychotherapy and Psychological Counseling: Islamic discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-225
Author(s):  
F. F. Yakhin
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Psychological Counseling ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Past ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Psychological Assistance ◽  
Symbolic Images

The article is devoted to the problems of using symbols in religious-oriented psychological assistance to Muslims. The author analyzes approaches to the symbol concept in Psychology and Philosophy, as well as develops the theory and practice of using symbols in Psychotherapy. Symbols are considered in the context of Islamic divine signs, which are provided by Allah in order to contemplate, to understand and to disclose them in the nature and personality of a man, as well as in historical events from the past described in holy scriptures. Based on the analysis of the text of the Qur’an, the author emphasizes the connection between symbolic Qur’anic images and the inner world of a person, the state of their intellectual and spiritual development. Based on the works of Islamic authors of the past and present, the article suggests methods for using symbolic images presented in the Qur’an in the practice of counseling and psychotherapy, as well as substantiates the basic principles that must be observed in the process of providing psychological assistance to Muslims.

scholarly journals Sacrilegious character of «The cross on Saturn» in the self-titled novel of Oles Ulianenko

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Aesthetic Appeal ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Professional Evaluation ◽  
The One

Oles Ulianenko, one of the most talented and controversial Ukrainian writers of these days, has been dead for ten years. His literary works did not receive any appropriate professional evaluation though because literary scholars and critics applied either the wrong or unproductive research methodology due to some objective and subjective reasons. The aim of the article is to suggest an alternative, in comparison to traditional variants, theoretical literary analysis which is grounded on the principles of the corporal-mimetic method to interpret fiction done on the extremely controversial novel “The Cross on Saturn” by O. Ulianenko. Having analyzed the idea and artistic content of the novel “The Cross on Saturn”, the conclusion is made that, first, the book characters seem to function as simulacra of their shallowness because they lack the depth of inner world. But despite this fact, despite parody, superficial dialogues and surrogate actions, the main characters of the novel and the peripeteia, they find themselves in, do not lose aesthetic appeal because these characters do not need deep inner world since their function is not determined by what these trivial characters reflect in the text mirror but by what the text mirror reflects in them. Second, the shallowness is filled with the content conditioned by the incest precedent which provides the basis of Oles Ulianenko’s novel to the degree to what the writer creates the tragedy in its exact, namely ancient Geek, meaning of the notion according to which tragedy is, on the one hand, a story determined by an utterly artificial form and content and, on the other hand, it is a story which does not simply end by death, it is a story which cannot end by anything else but death. It seems as if nothing but tragedy could make it impossible for a man to have their animal essence to supersede their human part.

scholarly journals CIRCULAR LETTER OF THE PROTO-HEGUMEN VASYL ROGOVSKY (12.11.1788)

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Yurii Stetsyk
Keyword(s):  
Information Content ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Material Support ◽  
Original Letter ◽  
Circular Letter ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Order Increase ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Church

Summary. The purpose of this study is to analyze the information content of the circular, highlighting the main thematic parts. Research methodology is based on the use of analytical and synthetic critique of the sources. To establish the objectivity of information, in the absence of the original letter, its information in comparison with other handwritten copies and old printed copies which we found. The scientific novelty is that Proto-hegumen Vasyl Rogovskyj’s circular has been introduced into wide circulation for the first time. Conclusions. The author determines the circumstances (holding of the Zhydychyn General and Provincial Chapters) and the purpose (informing about innovations in the Basilian legislation) of writing a district letter and presents a biographical review of the authors of the correspondence (Proto-hegumen Vasyl Rogovsky, Provincial Secretary Adrian Shubovych). The structural thematic points of the letter are analyzed: definition of provincial taxes; material support of student monks; sale of things of the dead monasticism; regulation of funeral services; focus on the exemplary behavior of the leaders of the Order; increase in payments for monks-teachers; setting requirements for preachers; preservation of unanimity in liturgical rites; involvement of the studio houses of the Order for diocesan needs; reduction of religious duties; streamlining of financial and property documentation; overcoming obstacles to spiritual growth; on obedience and respect for the authority of the Order and the Church. The importance of the content of the letter is evidenced by the fact that its copy was included in the input documentation of the act books of the Lubar Monastery Chancellery.

scholarly journals Konsep Empowerment Sebagai Instrumen Pembangunan Ekonomi Islam (Telaah Kritis Pemikiran Ibnu Khaldun dan Umer Chapra)

AL-TIJARY ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
Moh. Musfiq Arifqi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Religious Perspective ◽  
Social Law ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Dimensions ◽  
Islamic Economic ◽  
The Universe

The main problem of economic development such as poverty, unemployment, asymmetry of economic among individuals could not be removed succecfully in Indonesia. One of the reasons is caused with unreadable other variables such as social law, politics, culture and so on. The size of the success Islamic economic growth is not measured only from the material achievement perspective or the results of quantity, but also from the improving religious perspective, social and society life. The motodology of this research is library research. To get more information, the reference is taken from some book that have relation with the topic. The result is that Ibn Khaldun’s thought is referring to the term "umran al-alam" or prospering the world. It is formed from three components, namely; history (tarikh), cooperation among society (al-ijtima 'al-insani) and the universe (al-kawn). Ibnu Khaldun offered the concept of Islamic economic development: First, the contribution of humans (ar-Rijal). Second, the contribution of development (al-Imarah), Third, the contribution of institutions and government. Fourth, the contribution of wealth (al-mal). Umer Chapra believed that the means of quittable development requires "efficiency" and "equalization" of the use of all resources, both "efficiency" and "justice" cannot be applied or actualized without the supporting with moral dimensions in economic activities. Umer Chapra's thoughts are following: First, Efficiency, justice and morality. Second, the contributions of the state. Two thoughts on Islamic economic development below are known that the concept of Islamic economic development does not only measure the level of welfare in the world, but also the more important is how to prosper in the hereafter. The built concept of the two thinkers is directed more to the concept of empowerment or empowering natural resources efficiently and equitably by the role upholding ethical values and social justice.

scholarly journals BH678: Big History in the Italian Middle Schools: A Manifesto against the Fragmentation of Knowledge

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-101
Author(s):  
Paolo Vismara ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Schools ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
History Taking ◽  
Outer Island ◽  
Italian Market ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Approach ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Big History

With the Big History Italia BH678 Project I have introduced the Big History approach in the Italian middle schools, proposing an interpretation of the history of the universe as a way of creating a complex fusion among the sciences and a symbolic path for personal and spiritual growth. Starting from a deep love for complexity, I have written a novel, Storia interiore dell’Universo (now in print for the Italian market), that brings Big History into a poetic and psychedelic landscape. If you want to know the universe, probably, sometimes your body, your brain, your matter are enough; but if you desire to learn from the universe and you work in education, you should consider the whole Homo sapiens, as I believe our species learns only through feeling. Each Big History threshold is an opportunity to feel the echo of some keywords that contribute to developing our Inner Big History, taking off from apparently outer island-moments scattered across spacetime.

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PANCASILA AS THE GROUNDING PRINCIPLES OF INDONESIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Megawati Soekarnoputri
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Historical Methods ◽  
Basic Philosophy ◽  
The Universe

<p>Grounding Pancasila is the driving force and energy to make Pancasila in the concept of political, economic, social, cultural, as well as mental and spiritual development. The study aims to analyze the power of Pancasila as a basic assumption of Indonesian to respond to recent challenges faced by this country. This study employs a deconstruction approach that aims to describe how Pancasila become Indonesia's Basic Principles. The historical methods are heuristics, verification, interpretation, and historiography. Sources of data obtained are reading Soekarno's thoughts through his work "Under the Flag of Revolution". Soekarno's formulation of Pancasila thought was rooted in a sense of nationalism that wishes the Indonesian people to live side by side in peace and prosperity, and integrate all elements. This study concludes that as a basic philosophy (<em>p</em><em>hilosophische grondslag</em>), Pancasila becomes a basic guideline for the Indonesian people in looking at the reality of the universe, humans, society, nation, and state about the meaning of life and the basis for Indonesian people to solve problems faced in life and our existence.</p>

Metaphysics and Experience

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-97
Author(s):  
Mark R. Wynn
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Moral Virtue ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Theological Virtues ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter, and the next, further develop the notion of infused moral virtue, by considering how the target goods of these virtues can be realized in domains additional to those that Aquinas discusses. Chapter 3 examines in particular how our world-directed experience can be deemed more or less appropriate relative to a theological narrative, and how it is capable therefore of realizing the kind of good that is the object of the infused moral virtues. In this discussion, these goods are called ‘hybrid goods’ to mark the fact that they share their subject matter with the acquired moral virtues (since they are concerned with our relations to the created order), and their teleology with the theological virtues (because here the measure of success for our relationship to creatures is provided by reference to relationship to God). In this chapter, we also consider how a story of progress in the spiritual life that is rehearsed in an experiential idiom may be related to one that is cast instead in metaphysical terms. To develop the account, we examine in particular the relationship between Aquinas’s understanding of spiritual growth, expressed in terms of the acquired and infused moral virtues, and John of the Cross’s narrative of the various phases of the spiritual life. On this basis, we consider how experiential and metaphysical perspectives on spiritual development are mutually informing, while at the same time they also exhibit, relative to one another, a significant degree of independence.

scholarly journals The role of love in public sector leadership in Slovenia

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 587-609
Author(s):  
Senko Pličanič
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Positive Energy ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Know How ◽  
Material Development ◽  
Public Sector Leadership

The article discusses the importance of self-love in public sector leadership and public sector employees engagement. Given the importance of leadership in our civilisation, the almost complete absence of self-love in leaders is especially detrimental to the organisations they lead and their employees. This is especially important in the public sector–due to the importance of the goods and services it provides, and the fact that it does so with the taxpayers’ money. Leaders who love themselves and lead with love, know how to step into the employees’ shoes, understand them; know how to find the best in each one of them and encourage the development of that aspect; they are sincere and warm; know how to listen to employees and impress them; they are respectful of them; they inspire a sense of security and confidence; spread positive energy and know how to make decisions. Also, the connection between self-love and sustainable development social model is discussed. Due to the unilateral orientation of our civilisation toward material development, individuals have almost eliminated the pursuit of spiritual development from their lives. However, love and happiness can only be achieved with the balance of both. The integral principle of sustainable development, which, in addition to economic growth, encompasses spiritual growth, is a model that offers us a way out of our (bad) state–in the world and in Slovenia. Of particular importance–primarily because of the long absence–is the spiritual side. People need to reintroduce it into their lives. In doing so, the state and the law should be “utilised”, and to set as their main task the provision of conditions for (in addition to economic) spiritual growth and thus love and happiness.

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