Comparative Religion - Science topic

This study examines the relationship between Christianity and the indigenous religion of the Zulu nation. It was made with the aim of promoting the coexistence of two religions in the Zulu nation, which is the indigenous religion of the Zulu nation and the Christian religion. The idea of the study came after realizing that there is conflict between...

According to the documentary sources of historical character, The Qur´anic text and ethnological studies, the arrival of Islam shows signs of ending religious cults dedicated to goddesses. One of these signs is the destruction of the figurative representation of the female body and the symbolism (metalanguage) that transmits and diffuses certain ma...

In "Exploring the Intersections: Kabbalistic Wisdom, Talmud, Torah, and the Old Testament," we embark on a journey through the spiritual landscapes of Judaism and Christianity. This exploration delves into the origins, teachings, and impacts of these pivotal religious texts, revealing their unique roles and interconnectedness. From the Torah's foun...

Paganism is a construction that religionists and scholars alike define according to their understandings and purposes. Herein I seek to explode common understandings of Paganism, which assume it always involves beliefs and practices about putatively divine natural entities, beings, or forces, and to consider such phenomena more broadly, as a sensor...

Edmund Hardy (1852–1904) was a Catholic priest, Indologist, and religious scholar who lived and worked during the period of the Kulturkampf struggle between the German Chancellor Bismarck and the Catholic church as well as early German colonialism. The lecture he gave under the title “Einleitung in die vergleichende Religionswissenschaft” (“Introdu...

Este artigo pretende apresentar aos estudiosos de religião de língua portuguesa a riqueza das contribuições de Wilfred Smith, professor de religião comparada muito importante para pensarmos a diversidade das religiões não como um castigo, mas como uma bênção das origens. Ele propôs uma teologia fundamental das religiões do mundo, tomando por base t...

This study seeks to undertake a comparative study of the burial rituals of the Igbo people in Enugu-Ezike, Nigeria, and Chinese Buddhists. The study explore the religious beliefs, cultural practices, and customs surrounding death and the afterlife in these two traditions. Burial rituals are significant practices in most cultures, as they provide a...

Cometan explores the similarities and differences between his new religion Astronism and the world religion of Islam in this brand new lecture. From philosophy to eschatology to theology, this lecture covers all aspects of the Astronist and Muslim religions with the aim of forming a clearer understanding of how these two religions compare with one...

Free Buddhist thoughts on meditation, religion, science, and the universe. As a child, the one who would become the “Scarlet Lama” spilled a substance into a dyer’s vat containing two hundred sheets for the local monastery. The substance’s exact nature is unknown, but it had the effect of permanently changing the color of the dye to a deep, vibrant...

Muslim academics have been familiar with theological and scientific debates from the early ages. Islam's academics and the members of the Ahl-AlKitab engaged in theological debates throughout the religion's history, touching on a wide range of topics related to worship, belief, dogma and more. The most prominent of these was their assertion that Je...

This paper explores the scholarship and intellectual contribution of the second series of World Order magazine, which published from 1966 until 2008 over 38 volumes. In so doing, I provide a narrative overview of the main themes and papers in World Order, and by extension some of the topics being discussed in the worldwide Bahā’ī community. This is...

Neanderthals are at the moment regarded as the originators of funeral rituals. The connection of the Neanderthals to Africa is understudied and in most cases not conclusive yet Africans practice funeral rituals as if it is the primary reason for their existence. Considering the importance of funerals to the African man and woman, there is a need to...

The debate is one of the religious and scientific dialogue that Muslim scholars had known since the early centuries. The history of Islam witnessed religious debates between its scholars and the men of the Ahl-AlKitab, that included many main and sub-themes that dealt with various fields of belief, worship and others. The most important of which wa...

Forward The book THEORIES OF RELIGION: Tools to Understanding Human Religious Beliefs, Practices and Philosophy by Dr. Grace Lawrence-Hart and Burabari Sunday Deezia arriving at the academic Religious bookstands at this point in history is a greatest gift to academic study of Religion. This is because for anyone to properly study and understand re...

This article discusses Assi Meshullam’s inter-discipline ongoing art project Order of the Unclean, while addressing issues of Religion, Art, Nationalism and Science embodied in the work. Using Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s “reparative reading” and Bruno Latour’s discussion on the concept of modernism, the article argues that Meshullam returns to the poly...

p> Abstrak: Artikel ini mengkaji peran ulama Al Washliyah dalam pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan di Indonesia. Studi ini merupakan studi kepustakaan, dengan menerapkan model penelitian sejarah Kuntowijoyo. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan historis dan filosofis, dengan analisis teori al-Attas tentang klasifikasi ilmu. Tujuan studi ini adalah untu...

The Communicating Vessels of a Hybrid Poetics: Myth as Intermedial and Intercultural Osmosis in the Oeuvre of Nikos Engonopoulos In 1938, the year of the International Exhibition of Surrealism at the Gallery Beaux-Arts in Paris, the poet and painter Nikos Engonopoulos created Birth of Orpheus and Genesis of Myth. The depiction of the birth of young...

The Comparative Study of Religions is a branch of study that emerged in the West during the late nineteenth century. Being a branch of Social Sciences, Comparative Religions nourishes in a scientific environment; and therefore, started viewing religion as a secular branch of study and a subjective phenomenon. The term, ‘Comparative Study’ has been...

Curt Nimuendajú Unckel é conhecido como um etnólogo e linguista brasileiro de origem alemã que teve uma formação autodidata ao longo de sua vida. Ainda que sua obra ofereça impulsos importantes para os estudos de religião comparada e para a sociologia da religião, Nimuendajú ainda não é muito bem conhecido nestas searas. Este artigo trata de aprese...

Comparative Study, a shortened form of Comparative Study of Religions is a branch of study that emerged in the West during the late nineteenth century. Being a branch of Social Sciences, Comparative Religion grew in a scientific environment and thus started viewing religion as a secular branch of study and a subjective phenomenon. The term, Compara...

Al-Milal wa al-Nihal, an august piece of writing by Shahrastani, serves as his introduction to the field of Ilm-al-Kalam (Muslim Dialectical Theology). The paper aims to highlight Shahrastani's adopted philosophical, logical, and descriptive methodologies on the five Jewish schisms, and shortcomings in them. Shahrastani's primary goals in writing a...

Libres pensées bouddhistes à propos de la méditation, de la religion, de la science et de l’univers. Enfant, celui qui allait devenir « Lama Écarlate » versa dans le bac d’un teinturier, contenant deux cents draps pour le monastère du coin, une substance à propos de laquelle personne ne s’accorde, mais qui eut pour effet de changer définitivement l...

The present study deals with some changes identifiable on the level of folk religion, i.e., of the religious expression of ordinary people. Its premises are that folk religion is a subsegment of religion, fulfilling specific functions which official or elite religion fail to satisfy. The paper lies on a theoretical grounding stemming mainly from th...

A comprehensive neurocognitive theory of dreaming based on the theories, methodologies, and findings of cognitive neuroscience and the psychological sciences. G. William Domhoff's neurocognitive theory of dreaming is the only theory of dreaming that makes full use of the new neuroimaging findings on all forms of spontaneous thought and shows how we...

Ismail Raji al-Faruqi (1921–86) was a distinguished scholar of Islam and religion and one of the most prolific and influential Muslim scholars of the modern age. He made lasting contributions to the study of Islam and comparative religion in the areas of the history and phenomenology of religion, Islamic thought, and interfaith dialogue.

Keywords English: This is a quantitative SFL-based study that is aimed at evaluating an Arabic translation of an English comparative religion text with respect to the realisation of tactic and logico-semantic relations. The evaluation is conducted against the source text and a reference corpus of Arabic non-translations, or original texts, from the...

Muslims from the very beginning of Islam have paid attention to the religious literature of other religions. The Holy Quran has discussed the other religions with a special focus on ahl i Kitab (the People of the Book) i.e., Jews and Christian, Shibah ahl i Kitab (the Dubious People of the Book) like Sabin (Sabeans) and Majus (Zoroastrians) and non...

Submission of Paper(s) is open for the upcoming/ Vol.: 02, Issue: 02, of Journal of Religious and Social Studies-JRSS. Submission is now open for the third issue, which will be published in December 2022. All submissions will go through an internal desk review. The selected paper(s) will be forwarded for the national & international peer-review pro...

Uģis NASTEVIČS, Ph.D. in Theory of Culture, Mg. paed., jpn@inbox.lv University of Latvia / Latvian Academy of Culture // The study compares the esoteric aspects of the spiritual leader induction ritual directionality in Dievturība and Shintō by fieldwork, content analysis and comparison of historical data in archives and publications. Historical ba...

Research related to the field of Comparative Religion and Islamic attachment has been gone several changes and debates recently. It involved with variety of trends that discussed in the previous publication. Despite its growth, there is no review paper discussing the prevalent trends about the Comparative Religion on Islam in the literature. This r...

The Sufi tradition remains one of the most mysterious and least understood systems of self-realization. This book demystifies the practice of the sohbet—an ad hoc discourse—as the central instructional tool in the globally influential Naqshbandi-Haqqani Order. It approaches the practice using categories of improvised music to establish a framework...

This article offers a new comparison of the ancient Mesopotamian story Enuma Elish and the biblical Garden of Eden story (Genesis 2:4–3:24) as a case study that demonstrates how attention to myth theory and comparative method might improve studies of ancient Southwest Asian literatures. This comparison illustrates the connection between myth, meani...

The discipline of comparative religion is one of the disciplines of knowledge that is growing in the world. Generally, comparative religion is mostly applied in academic and scientific forms such as teaching and learning in institutions of higher learning in Malaysia. However, when talking about the use of comparative religion in da'wah, some Malay...

The discipline of comparative religion is one of the disciplines of knowledge that is growing in the world. Generally, comparative religion is mostly applied in academic and scientific forms such as teaching and learning in institutions of higher learning in Malaysia. However, when talking about the use of comparative religion in da'wah, some Malay...

This paper argues how the study of religion in Japan influenced the nation’s conduct during the Asia-Pacific War (1931–1945). Specifically, the paper addresses the wartime national indoctrination texts of Katō Totsudō 加藤咄堂 (a.k.a. Katō Yūichirō 加藤熊一郎, 1870–1949). Although Katō was not strictly a religious scholar, analyzing Katō’s texts is signific...

Every religion teaches its followers to live peacefully and harmoniously with others, both the same and different religion followers. However, the fact shows that relations among religious people are often to be problematical. This is not only because of differences between religions in doctrines and practices but also because of different interpre...

This study aims to describe Abdul Mukti Ali's thoughts with a religious-rational perspective about education and its importance for the modern world. This study uses a library research strategy. The result of this research is the importance of Abdul Mukti Ali's ideas presented by Mukti Ali and fosters an order of comparative religion. His noble det...

The editors of McGill's JCREOR: The Journal of the Council for Research on Religion are pleased to announce a call for papers for our forthcoming volume (Vol. 3, Issue 2). This issue will be dedicated to critical reflection on global crises and the global responses of religious communities. In our era of the 24-hour news cycle, our awareness of glo...

Presentation on Comparative religions: Vedas and Quran

This is a searchable pdf scan of my entire 1977 Harvard PhD dissertation, written in fulfillment of a joint degree in Comparative Religion and East Asian Languages and Civilization. Since the full pdf is too large, I have uploaded it in six pdf units (1r-6r). There are historical periods during which there is a return to recover the thought, art,...

Early Muslims told a tale about Baḥīrā, a Christian monk who identified the young Muḥammad as the long-awaited prophet and warned the boy’s guardian to protect him from murderous Jews. This legend proved so popular that not only later Muslims but also Christians, Samaritans, and Jews themselves retold it in widely divergent ways. This study analyze...

This study is an effort to highlight the views of one of the Islamic scholars who has contributed a lot of time and energy to studying the traditions of other religions. His name was Abū al-Fath Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdul al-Karīm Ahmad al-Shahrastānī (479/1086-548/1153). Thus, the study presented here is to look at the typological nature of religion as i...

Christianity, Jewish Studies, Study of Religions, Islamic Studies, Islam, Judaism, Comparative Religions, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Christian Studies,

This research deals with the methods of studying religions for students of different religions in Western thought, a process of intellectual monitoring of the efforts of sociologists and clerics in developing scientific research for the teaching of religions; in Western thought. The general objective of the study: To develop a curriculum for teachi...

This paper seeks to explore the Prophet (PBUH)’s methodology in dealing with other religions based on textual analysis of selected historical incidents that took place during the time of revelation. The goal of this study is to analyze the text related to these incidents in order to extract the methodologies used by the Prophet (PBUH) in dealing wi...

This chapter addresses the impact of paranormal research on the study of comparative religions and demonstrates how this research offers new perspectives on the conceptualization of the human person. It reviews paranormal research over the last fifty years, discusses major theoretical issues therein and links these issues to religious conceptions o...

This article explores the hypothesis that Reissner’s fiber, an enigmatic, anomalous, thread-like structure that runs from the center of the brain to the end of the spinal cord, is the neural substrate of suprasensory perceptions of the divine. Justification for this hypothesis derives from a comparative study of descriptions of the “subtle body” fr...

My principal papers on Shamanism and links to the articles The concept of shamanism has engaged the academic world for more than two centuries, becoming a core concept on anthropology and comparative religion. And over the last 50 years, shamanism spread with such a force that it has catapulted from a little know phenomena of foraging societies int...

In this study, the author focuses on the reconciliation between proclamation and openness, especially in Islam and Catholicism. This research is comparative research. Methods Data collection is done through a literature study. The perspective of comparative religion is taken to find the meaning of the encounter between the two teachings in Islam an...

Although James A.W. Heffernan influentially defines contemporary ekphrasis as ‘the verbal representation of visual representation’ (1993, 3), we argue for a more dynamic and fluid understanding of ekphrasis. In particular, we focus on the multiple and indeterminate perspectives created by ekphrastic poetry, emphasising the way ekphrastic poetry dev...

Frazer’s theory of sympathetic magic has been extremely influential in both anthropology and comparative religion, yet the manipulative aspect has not been adequately theorized. In this paper, I formalize sympathetic magical action and offer a naturalistic explanation of manipulative sympathetic magic by attributing it to a combination of environme...

It is well known that translations of songs and poems not only break rhythm and rhyming patterns, but can also result in loss of semantic information. The Bhagavad Gita is an ancient Hindu philosophical text originally written in Sanskrit that features a conversation between Lord Krishna and Arjuna prior to the Mahabharata war. The Bhagavad Gita is...

Romanian Journal of Indian Studies 2022 in which my article on comparative religion (medieval Hinduism & medieval Christianity) has appeared

With digitalism, humanity entered a new age—the digital metaphysical period. Significant distinctions from previous epochs mark this period. Indeed, digitalism produces a transformation in every field via its specified applications, resulting in the creation of a new natural cosmos and a new human species. Unarguably, in addition to all its product...

Response to Margit Warburg's comment in Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion, 57 (1), 9–16.

Amidst the increasing of opportunities to come in contact with values and worldviews of various religions, this textbook is a useful reference for students and scholars of Comparative Religion, and other readers who would like to deepen the understanding of the attitude of believers of Abrahamic religions to the Sacred in other religions, yet do no...

The Qur’an often compares its own inspiration and revelation with previous scriptures to its audience. However, the Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity had manifold understandings of the inspiration and revelation of scripture. The rabbinic tradition posits various degrees of inspiration behind canonical scriptures: the Torah was dictated by God...

A 25 years old ISKCON student monk of in Bangladesh is one among several murdered in just the last few days in the name of religion (Islam). A British MP while addressing his constituents in a church was murdered by a member of the same religion (Islam) who killed our ISKCON devotee. We have to offer our love to God, understanding that every living...

During his many decades of research into the mystery and complexities of the human psyche, Carl Jung engaged in a concerted focus on comparative religion, ethnology, and esoteric contemplative practices. His explorations of Eastern alchemical disciplines included a deep resonance with many of the primary tenets and practices found in Taoism and Bud...

Comparative religion is a field of study through which views of various religions about a particular topic or sets of topics can be collated, interpreted, and systematically compared for attaining useful insights and broadening the understanding of religious beliefs, behaviors, and actions [i]. The current research furthers the study of comparative...

Drawing on thirty in-depth interviews with faith leaders in the UK (including Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Sikhism), we examine the diverse ways religious groups reorient religious life during COVID-19. Analysing the shift to virtual and home-based worship, we show the creative ways religious communities altered their customs, ritual...

Alma M. Karlin (1889–1950), a world traveller and German-language travel and fiction writer, cultivated a keen interest in religious beliefs and practices of the places she visited, believing in the Romantic notion of religion as the distilled soul of nations as well as in the Theosophical presumption that all religions are just particular iteratio...

Although a substantial literature in anthropology and comparative religion explores divination across diverse societies and back into history, little research has integrated the older ethnographic and historical work with recent insights on human learning, cultural transmission, and cognitive science. Here we present evidence showing that divinatio...

Frazer’s theory of sympathetic magic has been extremely influential in both anthropology and comparative religion, yet the manipulative aspect has not been adequately theorized. In this paper I formalize sympathetic magical action and offer a naturalistic explanation of manipulative sympathetic magic by attributing it to a combination of environmen...

In the morning of 25th July 2021, though it was a Sunday, while I was at my office working on one of my academic papers, the sad news on the demise of Dr. Osman reached my ears. For a moment, I became motionless and stopped writing. The next one hour or more my mind started to reflect on the good times my friends Prof Sikandar, Dr Shuhaimi and I ha...

The science of religion, as a discipline distinct from theology emerging in the 19th century, from the beginning was closely related to the discourse on Darwinism. This article focusses on Max Müller, known as ‘The father of Comparative Religion’, who was involved in the Darwinian discourse, compared with Jane Ellen Harrison who emphasised the impa...

Studying other religions is a legacy left by medieval Muslim scholars. As a Muslim scholar, al-Biruni’s Kitab al-Hind was a unique contribution to the study of Hinduism. This study explores al-Biruni’s approaches to studying Hinduism, culture, and civilisation by reviewing related manuscripts and literature. Al-Biruni studied the Hindu scripture in...

Polygamy is not introduced by Islam and neither does it promote sexuality. There are evidences that favour polygamy in different religions and nations before Islam, many Prophets have acceded to this. Judisum, Chraistianity and Islam: the three major religions permit polygamy, although the polygamy before Islam was based on injustice. Islam permits...

Sometimes critics are accomplices. Many critics misrecognize that we contribute to the very creation of the object about which we have objections! This is the case with many recent challenges to what has passed for “the philosophy of religion” over the last forty years or so. That is, critiques posed by scholars in the last twenty years create and...

شغل ابن حزم الأندلسي بشخصيته النقدية الفريدة، وعلمه الموسوعي بشتى الفنون مجالاً خصباً لدراسة الباحثين، وبخاصة فيما يتعلق بانفراداته الفقهية ودقة انتقاداته الدينية لأصحاب الملل والمذاهب المختلفة، فكان المؤسس الأول لعلم مقارنة الأديان. ومن جهوده غير المشتهرة عند كثير من العاملين في الانتصار للقرآن الكريم: رده على الوزير الأندلسي ابن النغريلة اليهودي،...

In the vein of many Western scholars of comparative religions, Wilfred Smith also realizes the difficulty implicated in defining religion but he is unique in daring to call for discarding religion, arguing that the concept is inadequate. According to him, the inadequacy of the concept leads to the intellectual dilemma of the relation between many r...

Media article on Islamic theology and comparative religion

É um fato amplamente reconhecido que o filósofo Hegel exerceu influência marcante no desenvolvimento inicial das fenomenologias da religião. O presente artigo pretende possibilitar uma leitura aprofundada das fenomenologias de C.P. Tiele e P.D. Chantepie de la Saussaye de modo a demonstrar a extensão da influência de Hegel em seu pensamento. Essa d...

This paper aims to dissect the concept of how to compare religions related to houses of worship between Lebak and Pandeglang. Today, social society has a lot of diversity, including ethnicity, language, race, and religion. With so many differences and social diversity, society tends to cause divisions in the community environment. The differences t...

This short work on religious research methodology consists of the contents of a Zoom webinar presentation. The presentation was given to the scholars of comparative religion associated with the Muslim Maseehi Mukalma Academy. The interfaith group of Islamic background requested a training session on methodological research in religious studies via...

In "Who Really is Jesus Christ for us Today?" I examine the question of the uniqueness of Jesus Christ with reference to the humanity of Jesus, theological significance, and comparative religions.

In this article, I discuss the relevance of the study of mysticism for Christian analytic theologians and philosophers of religion. I begin with a brief consideration of some reasons Christian academics might be reluctant to enter this field, and indicate that, somewhat surprisingly, the study of mysticism is something but seldom addressed in Chris...

The study is based on investigating how Mircea Eliade, the Romanian philosopher and comparative religion scholar as a representative of European colonialism in India, while documenting colonial encounters in his Bengal Nights: A Novel, ends up Orientalizing the orient in Eurocentric manners. Following Said's insights on orientalism and Spivak's cri...

p>This study explores Mukti Ali’s thoughts and contributions to Inter-religious harmony. Thoughts by Mukti Ali were discussed the harmony among religious believers, including comparative religion, the concept of agreeing in disagreement, and inter-religious dialogue, all anchored to the doctrine of Islam rahmat li al-’alamin. Mukti Ali pioneered in...

This study aims to analyze the role of M. Arsjad Th. Lubis in the development of Islamic sciences. This article is the result of a library research using a historical approach, to be precise intellectual history. This study has succeeded in showing that Tuan Arsjad is a scholar who has helped develop Islamic sciences in Indonesia, especially in Nor...

In the science-based western world view today, objects and materials are perceived as inert; essentially, they are dead matter. However, this is not the case in all cultures and all periods. In the area of present-day Finland, objects and materials were seen as potentially alive up to the early 20th century. This is well documented in oral accounts...

This paper offers preliminary notes on Buddhism in modern Muslim exegesis with an emphasis on Tafsir al-Qasimi by Muhammad Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi (1866–1914) and al-Mizan fi Tafsir al-Qurʾan by Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaʾi (1892–1981). The research adopts a qualitative design using content analysis to collect the data. In this paper two main question...

Tradução de Eduardo Rodrigues da Cruz (PUC-SP) gentilmente autorizada pelo autor. Texto originalmente publicado em STRENSKI, Ivan. Max Müller, the comparative study of religion, and the search for other Bibles in India. In: STRENSKI, Ivan. Understanding theories of religion: na introduction. 2nd ed. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015, pp. 33-34

This article presents and combines theories and philosophies on the spiritual rebirthing and ascension process emanating from psychology, comparative mythology, and comparative religion. It addresses various states of the soul encountered on the mystical journey to Divine Union and the various ways God assists human beings in completing this proces...

A unique Figure in the Orthodox Church, André Scrima was a bridge-personality among Christians and between Christianity and other religions. In his early works, bearing witness to a “spiritual inheritance” and a “blessing of grace” that he had personally received, he stressed the inner dimension of Eastern Christianity represented by Hesychastic sp...

The article attempts to capture basic components of the religious experience within the categories of contemporary cognitive psychology. Based on the outstanding theologist and scholar of comparative religion Rudolf Otto’s (1869–1937) concept of mysterium tremendum and mysterium fascinans it has been assumed that those experiences being in a contra...

This article explores the theology of religions as a framework for a Christian comparative religions. It focuses on the role of the doctrine of God in such a framework and compares the work of Edmond La Beaume Cherbonnier with that of Johan Herman Bavinck. The article demonstrates that both Cherbonnier and Bavinck identify anthropomorphism in revel...

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The article deals with religious education in Denmark, especially the impact of philosophy of life in the curriculum. It will address the question of whether “Christian Studies” has become more multifaceted, or whether it is really a Christian upbringing/existential upbringing in disguise. The article begins with a presentation of the religious, po...

REVIEWS: REVIEW 1 ‘The essays in this brilliant volume offer me as a teacher and researcher a welcome complexity in the study of Hinduism as a rich source. The researchers’ perspectives are drawn from the extensive reserves of philosophical/theological considerations of both ancient and contemporary Hindu traditions.’ ----Dr. Joanne Punzo Waghorne...

Using comparisons to disparage others is a technique we all know from everyday life. In discourses of religious diversity, such polemical comparisons also play a prominent role in the making and unmaking of inter- and intra-religious boundaries and hierarchies. Linking polemical comparisons to more general methodological questions, this conceptual...

The practice of comparing and classifying religions, it is often argued, has been an exclusive achievement, or invention, of the modern West. Such a categorical statement admits no exceptions and would therefore exclude the possibility of finding such endeavours in other epochs and places, such as pre-modern India. There should be no textual eviden...

Astronomy and religion have long been intertwined with their interactions resembling a symbiotic relationship since prehistoric times. Building on existing archaeological research, this study asks: do the interactions between astronomy and religion, beginning from prehistory, form a distinct religious tradition? Prior research exploring the prehist...

This research is motivated by the reality of religious education for children in interfaith marriages. Where many problems are faced by parents in directing children's religious education. In order to make a focus discussion, the authors directed the study to an Islamic education. This study aims to obtain a detailed description of Islamic religiou...

Al Faruqi brought a comprehensive and blended approach which combined in it an rationalist approach to monotheism which was both modernist and activist along an impartial approach to the study of religion. In a way he was a modern successor to the medieval Muslim scholars of comparative religion such as all-Biruni (973-1048 CE) and al-Shahrastani (...

پاکستانی جامعات میں سامی مذاہب پر علومِ اسلامیہ کے(ایم فل ،پی ایچ ڈی) اردو سندی مقالات کا اشاریہ و شماریاتی جائزہ Urdu Dissertations of Islamic Studies on Semitic Religions (MPhil, PhD) in Pakistani Universities: An Index and Bibliometric Review Study of religions or Comparative Religions is a globally significance subject. Pakistan is also resourc...