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The aim of the present article is to demonstrate that people who explore the mountains or have ties to the mountains are among those who bring progress or at least believe they do. The author also seeks to show that in many periods mountain treks had a rather significant social or religious dimension, and specific groups or classes becoming mountaineers often became a political matter. In order to substantiate the thesis the author uses a number of examples, moving non-chronologically from the twentieth century, especially its first half, through the second half of the nineteenth century, and ending with romanticism and the Enlightenment era. The examples illustrating the author’s thesis are limited territorially to Central Europe, mainly its part that was historically or still is today German-speaking.

Wybrane rodzinne uwarunkowania tożsamości społeczno-kulturowej studentów w wymiarze religijnym

The article contains selected results of research from spring 2020 among students of universities in Białystok. The author distinguished 9 types of socio-cultural identity in the religious dimension. He also made an attempt to establish a relationship between these types and selected features of the family environment. The following were used as independent variables: the level of parents’ education, opinions of the surveyed students on the level of parents’ religiosity and the relationship between the respondents and their parents in childhood and adolescence. The relationship between the number of children in the respondent’s family and the type of social and cultural identity in the religious dimension were also analyzed.

The Hidden Religious Dimension of Posthumanism

Since the end of the twentieht century, the intellectual movements of trans- and post-humanism have gained growing awarness in the humanities and social sciences, but also in a broader public. As Francesca Ferrando makes very clear in her brilliant and thought provoking introduction to Philosophical Posthumanism, both currents are connected in many ways but should nevertheless be sharply distinguished from each other: Whereas transhumanism develops visions of human enhancement via technology, posthumanism ismuch more a critical enterprise which reflects on problematic an thropocentrisms in all domains of natural and social life. As such, according to the first sentence of Ferrando’s book, “Posthumanism is the philosophy of our time” (Ferrando, 2019a, 1). A great deal of posthumanism’s attractivity is probably due to its astonishing unifying force. Many important critical movements and theoretical approaches who used to be practiced separatedly from each other seem to converge in philosophical posthumanism.

Islamic Paradigm of Money: Interconnected Dimensions

In Islam, money is viewed as a means to measure value and a tool for transactions. This study explains other dimensions of money while also examining its use in the interconnected social and religious phases of human life. Since money is perceived differently across cultures, we conducted a literature review to identify dimensions other than the one considered by Western culture. For this purpose, we used scientific articles, book chapters, and books as the primary sources, which allowed us to obtain a complete and coherent description of the phenomenon under study. According to the results, money not only has a transactional dimension that seeks to maximize profit (as it is mainly conceived by Western culture) but also a social and religious dimension. Giving money can be more satisfying than giving in-kind. In Islam, the money collected is freely spent based on individual needs. In addition, money (dinar and dirham) serves to measure pious deeds when employed as a unit of account in zakat and qurban, as well as in inheritances. In Islam, a proper management of monetary assets can help to link the social and religious dimensions in a coherent manner.

The Compatibility between the Religious and the Nihilistic Currents in Dostoevsky’s World

The goal of this essay is to show the compatibility between two currents in Dostoevsky's world, namely, the religious and the nihilistic. Based on Nietzsche's theory of nihilism and Deleuze's interpretation of Nietzsche, I introduce a dynamic model – reactive nihilism – a destructive force that annihilates fading values to clear the way for the advent of a new value. Through the textual analysis, primarily focusing on the religious dimension presented by saintly characters and biblical intertextuality in The Brothers Karamazov, this essay argues that Dostoevsky's two trends do not conflict at all, but express in a common dynamic model, that is reactive nihilism.

Religion and Terrorism: The Prevent Duty

The Terrorism Act 2000 recognises that religion may be a force for bad in its definition of ‘terrorism’: ‘The use or threat of action … designed to influence a government or to intimidate the public or a section of the public … for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause.’ ‘Radicalisation’ is the process by which an individual becomes involved in terrorism, and it is the statutory Prevent Duty, introduced under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, that is the UK's current means of tackling radicalisation. Under the duty, specified authorities (such as schools, police, etc) must have due regard to preventing people from being ‘drawn into terrorism’. This article addresses an often-neglected area in the ongoing legal debate surrounding the statutory Prevent Duty: the religious dimension. It suggests that religion is at the centre of the Prevent Duty and that the formulation of the duty was stimulated by religion – namely, Islamist extremism and radicalisation. It will discuss the ways in which the Prevent Duty can be criticised; that it has an impact on human rights that it is potentially discriminatory towards Muslims; and that it does not clearly distinguish between permissible radical religion and impermissible harmful religion. The article concludes by suggesting that religion plays an important part in the understanding of extremism and radicalisation.

ANALYSIS OF THE HATI SUHITA NOVEL BY KHILMA ANIS: RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF HUMAN RELATIONS WITH SELF

Becoming a perfect human is something that cannot happen in the world. However, being a human being who strives and is determined to be perfect is something that can be achieved with all the conviction of the heart and requests for straightness on the path of Alah SWT. accompanied by self-effort towards true goodness. This can be referred to as the religious dimension of one's self to oneself. Instilling a strong religious character and heart readiness to go to the right path. The power of religious character over oneself can be applied in a variety of circumstances. Like being happy, sad, disappointed, impressed or so on. This situation really proves how much a person uses a religious attitude towards oneself. The following article contains several pieces of religious attitudes towards oneself that can add to our insight into this dimension of attitude.

PSYCHOLOGICAL COPING STRATEGIES TOWARDS THE CORONA PANDEMIC AMONG EMPLOYEES OF THE GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SECTORS IN THE SULTANATE OF OMAN

This quantitative study discusses psychological coping strategies with the Corona pandemic among employees of the government and private sectors in the Sultanate of Oman. The problem lies in the employees' return to work in their workplaces in light of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the decision of the Supreme Committee in the Sultanate, and the psychological conditions that may result from this decision among the employees. The study aimed to discuss how often employees use psychological coping strategies in the work environment, in addition to diagnosing differences in the employees' use of psychological coping strategies in light of some demographic variables. The researchers used the quantitative descriptive approach to collect information using a questionnaire that consisted of (24) statements on (4) aspects: confrontation and problem solving, avoidance and escape, the religious dimension, and support. The study tool was applied to a sample of (584) employees from the government and private sectors, and they were chosen by a simple random method. The study found that the degree to which employees use psychological coping strategies with the pandemic is very large, arranged in succession: the religious dimension, confrontation and problem solving, and support appeared to a large extent, while avoidance and escape was medium. The results also indicated that there are statistically significant differences due to the variable of the work sector in the dimension of support, in favor of the private sector, while showing that there were no statistically significant differences among the study sample in the degree of their use of psychological coping strategies due to the variables of gender and marital status. The study concluded with several recommendations, most notably: the need to develop a psychological counseling program aimed at training employees to deal with the Corona virus in accordance with the psychological coping strategies, and the need to raise job safety in the work environment for workers in the private sector.

The Influencer Role of Charismatic Renewal in the Spirituality of Post-Covid Society

"In studies of charismatic movements, an essential aspect is often overlooked: any authentic religion requires assumption by faith, (to have no other Gods other than Me!). Or precisely this kind of mentality is promoted in the charismatic movements, of spiritual openness, which is willing to give credit to everything, is specific to culture, not religion. The religious dimension of the charismatic believer is of the syncretic type, unity in diversity, not of assumption, but based on the notion of option, and not on dogma, which leads him to donjuanism. Or it is precisely this danger that is underlined by St. Gregory Senaite, who warns us not to receive, if we see, anything sensitive or intelligible, inside or outside, whether it appears to you in the image of Christ, as an angel or a saint, or if it is shown to you as a light. For the mind itself has the ability to imagine things and can change, beware of receiving or rejecting those that do not know for sure come from the Holy Ghost. The problem of discerning between truth and lie, spiritual or devilish work, is the purpose of this scientific approach. The diverse plethora of charismatic offerings, as well as the interference with traditional Christianity, make us, like Pilate, ask: what is the Truth? or, rather, how can the Truth be distinguished among so many truths?"