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Religions, Volume 10, Issue 1

January 2019 - 66 articles

Cover Story: Laozi’s notion of “fan” is mainly used in the sense that things deviate from the correct way—from Dao (“alter, and desires arise”)—and then, through the guidance provided by Dao, they return to their original self (“return to the root”). Since Laozi maintains that the process of change may produce abnormalities and estrangements, things and beings can only regain the rational and normal track through the process of “returning,” which will lead to their development. The notions of “fan,” “fu” (复), and “gui” (归)—which all indicate the process of “returning”—mean that things and beings return to their own “efficacy” (de德) and to their own particular way (dao道). View this paper
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Articles (66)

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3 Citations
6,794 Views
16 Pages

20 January 2019

This paper takes the different interpretations of one and the same sentences in the Daode jing as “inner cultivation” or “worldly power” respectively, in the commentaries of two closely related early Tang Daoist authors, Cheng...

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9 Citations
10,503 Views
16 Pages

18 January 2019

In this article, I examine religion-state relations and religious pluralism in Turkey in terms of recent changes in the religious landscape. I propose that there is a growing trend in the religious sphere that has resulted in a proliferation of relig...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,940 Views
25 Pages

18 January 2019

Recent scholarship on both ancient and modern Judaism has criticized the identification of Judaism as a religion. From the perspective of the modern period, what has remained unaddressed is the very peculiar religion that Jewish philosophers and theo...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
189,914 Views
16 Pages

18 January 2019

According to Islamic religious teachings, some Jews confirmed the authenticity of Muhammad’s prophethood and joined him. Most Jews, however, are condemned for both rejecting the Prophet and failing to live up to their own religious imperatives....

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,102 Views
22 Pages

18 January 2019

Then is the designation in Vietnamese and Tày given to shamanic practitioners of the Tày ethnicity, who reside mainly in the northern provinces of Vietnam. Scholars are long aware that the predominantly female spirit mediums among the Z...

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5 Citations
8,367 Views
10 Pages

17 January 2019

Participation is defined as being-with and acting-for others with the aim of advancing the common good. Karol Wojtyla’s philosophy of community and the Sub-Saharan ethic known as Ubuntu are used to describe a participative ethic. These philosop...

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1 Citations
4,888 Views
13 Pages

17 January 2019

I offer an approach to Dreyer’s film Ordet as a contribution to the phenomenology of a certain kind of religious experience. The experience in question is one of a moment that disrupts the chronological flow of time and that, in the lived exper...

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3 Citations
6,532 Views
15 Pages

17 January 2019

Dostoevsky can be meaningfully read as a defender of Russian Orthodoxy; a psychologist; a polemicizing anti-nihilist ideologue; a Schillerian romantic; a Solovyovian believer in love, goodness, and beauty; a prophet. I approach Dostoevsky through a n...

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