Comparative Religion - Science topic

As an important text of Chinese philosophy and Daoism, the English translation of the Zhuangzi has played a key role in cultural exchange between China and the West. In the 19th century, the emergence of the study of comparative religions promoted an interest in the West in Eastern philosophies, and Balfour’s English translation of the Zhuangzi is...

The paper discusses the religious experience of Semitic faith in Abrahamic tradition. It firstly discusses its underlying approach as enshrined in classical religious thought concerning its meta-religious principle, methodology and traditional framework. In analysing the history and tradition of the Abrahamic Faiths, it tries to encapsulate this wi...

This study aims to analyze Post-Conflict Social Reintegration in Poso. Post-conflict social reintegration in Poso needs to be carried out to realize lasting peace in Poso Regency and prevent the recurrence of conflicts. The study was conducted using a qualitative approach. Data collection was carried out by interviewing 24 Muslim and Christian info...

An impression is given by the people of the West that the objective approach of the study of religions has not been prevalent among Muslims. On the contrary, the determination of the purpose has been done first and the research activity has been implemented later. The review of this Western claim has been presented in this paper. Two Muslim thinker...

Resumo Hinduísmo e Budismo são duas das religiões mais expressivas do mundo em número de adeptos. São, também, originárias de uma mesma região, o Subcontinente Indiano. Para além disso, ao longo do tempo, em especial nas etapas iniciais do Budismo, elas compartilham uma série de elementos teológicos e simbólicos. Mesmo assim, constituíram-se como s...

This paper explores the concept of divine immanence across religious traditions, focusing on how pantheistic thought manifests in Christianity, Hinduism, and Taoism. Divine immanence refers to the belief that the divine is present within and permeates all aspects of the world, blurring the lines between Creator and creation. In Christianity, divine...

Disharmony among religious communities in the era of globalization has become a focal point for religious observers, as it often gives rise to complex issues in Europe, North America, and other parts of the world. This article will explore the importance of Islamic studies in understanding the complexity of relationships between Islam and other cul...

Este artigo apresenta de forma introdutória a sociologia transpessoal como um novo campo científico das ciências sociais, voltado ao estudo das experiências místicas, espirituais e religiosas (EMERs). Na qualidade de subárea germinal da sociologia, a sociologia transpessoal procura analisar os fenômenos transcendentais a partir de uma metodologia q...

In the debates on religious diversity, religions are often taken as fixed, ready and finished. Lived religions, however, are fluid and filled with nuances and syncretisms. Despite this, both philosophical theories and religious institutions frequently view syncretism as a mistake leading to loss of identity, relativism, and logical contradictions....

This piece draws on discourses including transpersonal psychology, religious mysticism, comparative religion, and cultural history, as well as direct, lived experience of cardiac illness. As I will attempt to show, the heart’s way is open, imaginal, spacious, and reflective, as well as curious, kind and discerning, sharing many similarities with th...

Este artigo procura analisar as experiências de quase morte (EQMs) a partir de uma abordagem sociológica transpessoal. Para tanto, partiu-se do impasse existente nas teorias materialistas que sustentam que o cérebro cria a consciência. Como o cérebro está inativo em casos de parada cardíaca, as lembranças e imagens obtidas durante a EQMs não deveri...

Pelbagai pendekatan telah dilakukan oleh para pendakwah untuk menyampaikan seruan kearah kebenaran Islam. Perbandingan agama adalah salah satu pendekatan dakwah yang perlu dititikberatkan. Objektif kajian ini ialah untuk mengenalpasti peranan dan kepentingan perbandingan agama sebagai pendekatan dakwah serta menyenaraikan kaedah terbaik selain mene...

This paper discusses the anthropological opening to ‘Nature’ as Design, focusing on the emerging educative role of monasticism as an alternative technology of everyday living -beyond institutionalized teachings of Christocentric and Anthropocentric dogmatisms of both Monasteries and/or Universities. This paper is based on extensive research in comp...

This study explores the notion of spatiotemporal phenomena, particularly bilocation within the religious and mystical traditions of Islam and Sufism to understand deeper spiritual truths and their implications for the interconnectedness of material and metaphysical realms. Hermeneutical and phenomenological analyses have been employed to discern...

ISSN: 2983-9939 - ISSNe: 3041-4679 Publisher: Ijtihad Center for Studies and Training Belgium Ijtihad Center Registration Number: 0776.886.559 URL: https://journal-ijtihadcenter.com/index.php/ijias/index Ijtihad Journal for Islamic and Arabic Studies is issued by the Ijtihad Center for Studies and Training in Belgium and is registered in the Royal...

Current scientific advances are reshaping our understanding of prehistory, offering unprecedented insights into the movements and kinship patterns of prehistoric populations. These new advances provide us with detailed information on several aspects of the early speakers of Indo-European and their lives. However, the prehistoric humans that we know...

Current scientific advances are reshaping our understanding of prehistory, offering unprecedented insights into the movements and kinship patterns of prehistoric populations. These new advances provide us with detailed information on several aspects of the early speakers of Indo-European and their lives. However, the prehistoric humans that we know...

For hundreds of years, Arab and Islamic societies were characterized as pluralistic societies displaying peaceful coexistence between its different sects, without any need for agreements, declarations of understanding, and constitutions, as well as without the need for a theology of coexistence. Peaceful coexistence was a given, even if the his...

With regard to the assertion of the nature of the world, primitive Buddhism advocates “all phenomena that arise from causes” and opposes the existence of “God” or “Creator”, who created everything in the universe, which is significantly different from monotheistic beliefs such as Brahmanism, Christianity, and Islam and is therefore often called “at...

This paper explores the transformative and provocative concept of Mary as the Creator and Divine Mother, examining how this reimagined role can address and potentially resolve significant theological issues, including the problem of evil (theodicy) and the cosmic struggle between God and Satan. Traditionally, Mary is venerated as the mother of Jesu...

During the Renaissance and Reformation eras, the discipline of religious studies saw a notable paradigm change. This movement entailed a departure from the previous emphasis on Christian apologetics and polemics towards a more rigorous and analytical evaluation of established religious ideas. Friedrich Max Müller and Cornelis Petrus Tiele were inst...

Comparative religion scholar Thomas Berry’s influential concept of “Earth jurisprudence” has been helpfully elaborated in three principal books. My first section identifies four of their common themes, deriving therefrom an implicit narrative: (1) the basis of ecology is autopoiesis, which (2) originally generated human communities and Indigenous v...

Tolerance education is a process in which teachers teach students to accept and respect differences in society. Indonesia as a country with a diversity of community backgrounds needs a tolerance education curriculum to prepare students to deal with these differences. This study aims to describe the tolerance education curriculum in high school boar...

This study examines the profound theological and ethical dimensions of the Qurʾānic parables, affirming their divine origin and refuting Orientalist assertions of derivation. Employing a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses textual and comparative analyses that engage classical and contemporary Islamic scholarship, the research illuminates t...

This paper is based on a comparative analysis of the approaches of renowned Islamic scholars Ahmed Deedat and Maulana Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi, explicitly focusing on their contributions to interfaith dialogue, who influenced people worldwide with their vision and prophetic voice. Ahmed Deedat moved to South Africa in the 1930s and was known for his as...

new approach uniting iatromathematics and comparative religion

This study merges the perspectives of Religion, Mythology 🧜‍♀️and Modern Media in response to an unpopular controversy in Comparative Religion…“Was the Earthly Jesus a Demi-God? Filters from the Greek Myths and Contradictions”. While bits of the Religious perspective of the study were drawn from the Communication course Winter Course “Contemporary...

This article delves into an exploration of Tafsir Al-Quran works by influential scholars from the West of Java. Unlike traditional geographic delineations, this study does not restrict its focus to the administrative boundaries of West Java as a province but extends to broader regions in the western part of the island. The investigation employs a q...

Over the last thirty years, humanity has discovered thousands of planets outside of our solar system. The discovery of extraterrestrial life could be imminent. This book explains how such a discovery might impact Islamic theology. It is the foundational reference on the subject, comprising a variety of different insights from both Sunni and Shi'i p...

Review of: Håkan Rydving & Konsta Kaikkonen eds., Religions around the Arctic. Source Criticism and Comparisons (Stockholm studies in comparative religion 44), Stockholm: Stockholm University Press 2022

In the ever-evolving religious landscape of Brazil, researchers who study contemporary phenomena of religions face a complex and often contradictory reality. The practical application of theoretical categories and concepts in this domain is an endeavor that continues to challenge researchers. Brazil’s religious landscape is characterized by an impr...

Arvind Sharma has made immensely significant contributions in the fields of both comparative religion and the study of Hinduism through his methodology of “reciprocal illumination” and his prominent role in international conversations on women and religion, religion and human rights, freedom of religion, and religious tolerance and conflict. Aware...

Despite the travails of Partition, Muslims of India succeeded in maintaining their religious fervour. The association of two prominent Ulama, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani, with the ruling dispensation in the new India, helped the cause of Madrasas. In the earlier days after Partition, the Ulama belonging to Madrasas playe...

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The concept of eschatology remained a captivating theological subject that theologians dedicated substantial time and resources to comprehend. Contrary to popular belief, some Christians may not prioritise theological discussions about eschatological details. Eschatological discourse – the fate of the universe, including humans and the physical wor...

Finland was one of the first countries in the world to integrate sociology into academic teaching and research. This article discusses the institutionalization of sociology in Finland between the 1890s and 1940s. We analyze institutionalization as a process that occurs at the levels of ideas, individuals, identity, and institutions. In Finland, the...

The views of Islam over extraterrestrials have not been appreciated in recent scholarship. Moreover, the implications of such views are not appropriately discussed in previous works. This chapter aims to investigate the possible eschatological implications of the reports of sacred texts of Islam about aliens. In pursuit of this aim, this research,...

This study aims to investigate and review the Islamic perspective on the environment, identify Islamic approaches to preserve the environment and examine the effect of the Islamic approach in the empirical reality of the Muslim population. Based on a Systematic Literature Review of journal articles from the Scopus, the review results of 23 articles...

Potentiality for Social integration through cult of goddess pattini among the Tamil Hindus and Sinhala Buddhist – a study P. Sachithanantham Department of Comparative Religion & Social Harmony Eastern University, Sri Lanka Social integration is becoming prime concerned of the academics for building up social cohesion among the multi ethnic comm...

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...

The book “Comparative Religion and Logic” is originally idealized and compiled by “Humza Bin Masood”, and it is authentically based on original references from genuine and bona fide religious books, holy books, and other legitimate sculptures of all the religions of the world. This book provides a wide and clear view of the concepts that might have...

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...

Tis review recognizes that Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living has many good qualities and relates a story of scholarship that, according to the assertions of the author, heralds a brave new world of interdisciplinary examination of research objects heretofore the traditional and exclusive province of anthropology, compar...

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...

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...

Abstract Zakir Naik is one of the scholars in Comparative Religion. Providing quotations with exact references from his instant memory, Naik makes his audience astonished and spellbound. In adopting a descriptive methodology, this research has attempted to explore the secrets behind Zakir Naik‘s effort in daʿwah and his techniques for preparing daʿ...

The term "comparative religion" is popular and appealing in today's world. Comparative religious discourse has substantially advanced. Comparative religion is the study of how other religions are alike and different, as well as how their justifications and irrationalities can be determined using evidence and logic. It also discusses the beginnings,...

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...

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.