Mariya Dmitrievna Kovrigina (1910–1995) — a prominent organizer and head of Soviet healthcare

The article is dedicated to Mariya Dmitrievna Kovrigina. She was a prominent organizer of Soviet healthcare, the Honoured physician of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). During the Great Patriotic war and the post-war period M.D. Kovrigina for 17 years held many leading posts of Deputy Minister and Minister in the apparatus of Ministry of Healthcare of the RSFSR and USSR (1942-1959). Then for 27 years, she worked as the rector of the Central institute for Advanced Training of Physicians (1959-1986). The article provides some little-known facts from the biography of M.D. Kovrigina, which allows showing her contribution to the development of Soviet healthcare, as an experienced and professional organizer and as person sincerely sick soul for the work entrusted to her.

Telaah Kritis terhadap Fungsionalitas Gereja Toraja Berdasarkan Kritik Sosio-Religi Karl Marx

This study aims to critique and evaluate the church's functionality, namely the church in its social function. The Toraja Church is still not here to carry out its real social function. As a result, various kinds of social injustice that are produced from culture settle right within the sphere of the church. The church exists only as a producer of the imagination: directing the imagination, without fixing problems on earth. This study uses a qualitative method with a literature observation approach. As a basis, the theory used in this research is Karl Marx's socio-religious criticism theory. The essence of this criticism is not rejection of religion, but rejection of religious practices which merely produce illusions, so as not to solve the problems experienced by society, especially Christians, as a result, society becomes alienated. The Toraja Church is required not to solve problems through imagined solutions, but instead to bring concrete liberating solutions in society. The church should be a real medicine where there is a sick soul due to the chaos of the world. With the revival of church functionality, the church has become a strong fortress for the community towards peace.

Consciências Saudáveis e Almas Enfermas: Posturas Éticas Religiosas em William James

Trata-se aqui de examinar as noções de Sick Soul e Healthy-Mindedness de acordo com William James em sua obra Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902). O pragmatismo de James se preocupa com o fenômeno religioso em termos de utilidade de um conjunto de crenças que fundamentam ações no campo ético e, desse prisma, James percebe a religião como ferramenta fundamental para o equilíbrio psíquico humano. Dito isso, o artigo apresenta os dois tipos básicos de postura ética aludidos, além de definir o que significa religião segundo James.

KONVERSI AGAMA, PERTUMBUHAN, DAN ORIENTASI KEAGAMAAN (Studi Kasus di KUA Gondangrejo Karanganyar Tahun 2015-2017)

Konversi agama sebagai hak yang melekat dalam diri individu dalam praktiknya tidak selalu mudah, akan tetapi mengalami berbagai tantangan. Dalam kasus konversi di Gondangrejo Karanganyar persoalan konversi tidak lepas dari adanya pertumbuhan keberagamaan yang dialami oleh seseorang. Perkembangan keberagamaan seseorang secara umum dibedakan menjadi healty minded dan sick Soul. Bagi Orang yang memiliki kepribadian sick soul dengan segala kepasrahan kepada Tuhan membuat mereka menjadi orang yang tidak mudah menyalahkan atau menuntut orang lain. Sedangkan orang dengan kepribadian healty minded memiliki kecenderungan memiliki pandangan keberagamaan yang terbuka, mau menerima pola keberagamaan orang lain yang beda dengan dirinya. Sedangkan orientasi keberagamaan seseorang dalam kasus Gondangrejo ini mengarahkan seseorang menciptakan sistem makna untuk mengarahkan perilaku kesalehan dalam kehidupan, yang puncaknya pada kematangan beragama.

Almsgiving and the Therapy of the Soul in John Chrysostom’s Homilies on Matthew

In recent years much scholarly work has explored the topic of John Chrysostom as an ancient “psychagogue”. In these recent studies, however, relatively little attention has been devoted to Chrysostom’s approach to almsgiving in relation to the cure of the soul. This article looks closely at Chrysostom’s view of almsgiving and soul therapy within the context of ancient philosophical therapy. Analyzing Chrysostom’s Homilies on Matthew, it demonstrates that for Chrysostom almsgiving is a crucial remedy for healing the sick soul.

„James’s book The Varieties of Religious Experience does me a lot of good.“

Wittgenstein zitiert in seinen Schriften nur wenige Autoren, den amerikanischen Pragmatisten William James bis in sein Spätwerk hinein jedoch mit auffallender Häufigkeit. Das hängt - so die Leitthese des Beitrags - vor allem mit der Rolle zusammen, die James‘ Erkundungen des Religiösen für Wittgensteins Nachdenken über Religion spielen. Der intrikaten Verbindung Wittgenstein-James wird in sieben Reflexionen nachgegangen: 1. Krisis der Lebenspraxis: „The Sick Soul“ (James, Tolstoi, Wittgenstein); 2. Das existentiell dimensionierte „Paradoxon“ als rektifizierte/dekonstruierte Dialektik? Wittgensteins (beredtes?) Schweigen im Tractatus; 3. Kann Reflexion stillgestellt werden? „Therapie“ als „Ende der Philosophie“? 4. Kritische Eindämmung des „Szientismus“: Wittgensteins und James‘ Einsprüche gegen die „survival theory of religion“; 5. Exkurs zum Jamesschen Thematisierungsversuch des „Mystischen“; 6. James und Wittgenstein über das „institutionalisierte“ Religiöse: „Religion - a matter between me and God only“? - „Subjektive“ Religiosität vs. „korporative“ Religion; 7. Coda. Die (innere) Ambivalenz religiöser Motivation: Sami Pihlströms (post‐) Wittgensteinsche Reflexionen.