This article examines how an institutional actor within the Catholic Church uses the social media platform X. The study analyzes a corpus of 60 publications from the official account of a selected Catholic ecclesial entity. The textual layer is exami...
Modern Arab and Muslim intellectuals have theorized a cultural crisis that dates back to the medieval age of Islam. At the foundation of this crisis is a claim that the ʿulamāʾ led an attack on philosophy and philosophers. This paper d...
This article examines how Buddhist and contemplative ideas are adapted to contemporary economic and organizational settings through the case of the Netzwerk Achtsame Wirtschaft (NAW), a German-speaking network founded by Kai Romhardt. Drawing on orga...
This paper explores the link between Dūnhuáng’s astral deities and disease, death, and malevolent spirits via Dūnhuáng manuscript P.2713, which contains the Incantation of the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions (廿八...
The Western Pure Land belief 西方淨土信仰 entered China in the Eastern Han (25–220 CE). Around the sixth century, it underwent a major shift from mental contemplation 心念 to oral recitation Ö...
This paper begins with a focused Buddhist-studies reading of Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra and places its account of bodhisattva formation in dialogue with critical posthumanism through theories of figuration and Hans Blumenb...
Recent scholarship, particularly Steve Odin’s, has drawn attention to the originality of D. T. Suzuki’s conception of the unconscious. Building on this discussion, this article investigates the historical formation and conceptual transfor...
This article analyses the religious policy of the Republic of Azerbaijan, where an official discourse promoting tolerance and multiculturalism coexists with the repression of religious communities, particularly Shia ones. Rather than treating this di...
Medieval Christian commentators mobilize the Ecclesia/Synagoga pair not as a settled allegory but as a flexible interpretive instrument for negotiating Christianity’s simultaneous claims of continuity with Israel and rupture from Israel. Rather...
This study examines temcid, a devotional vocal tradition performed from mosque minarets, particularly during the pre-dawn sahur period in Ramadan and on blessed nights, and the temcidhans responsible for its performance within the broader context of...
How did Edith Stein—Jewish-born philosopher, Catholic convert and Carmelite nun—interpret and resist Nazism between 1933 and her deportation to Auschwitz in 1942? This article proposes a philosophical-hermeneutic reading that relates her...
Metaphysics is championed among contemporary philosophers as the way to combat the nihilism of our age and is simultaneously rejected as nihilism’s source. Thinkers who are serious about the Catholic tradition stand on either side of this argum...
This article examines the concept of love (maḥabba) in Jalāl al-Dīn al-Davvānī’s Akhlāq-i Jalālī and investigates how love functions as an organising principle within his ethical system. Drawing on a clo...
This article introduces a hybrid qualitative–quantitative methodology for studying public sentiment at scale. It does not attempt a comprehensive study of British public sentiment toward Islam, but rather introduces a model illustrated through...
This article examines how the ascetic practice of Bhikṣuṇī Inhong (仁弘, 1908–1997) became recognized and institutionalized as religious authority in modern Korean Buddhism. Rather than treating her “never lyi...
This study examines the role of Polish church music in London a decade after Poland’s accession to the European Union, presenting findings from a survey of Polish church attendees (n = 78). Respondents completed a 20-question questionnaire expl...
Religious communities increasingly operate within digital environments where institutional communication, religious practice, and audience interaction intersect. Yet, establishing a presence on social media does not necessarily translate into meaning...
The Grossmünster in Zurich was central to the origins of the Swiss Reformation, in which Huldrych Zwingli stopped all music within the church: only speech was allowed during the worship services, and drastic iconoclasms removed most of the ornam...
This article is a historical interpretation that aims to examine the climate of polarization in the realm of values resulting from the weakening of the binding power embodied in the symbol (Observ. 1). We put forward the hypothesis that the erosion o...
Once a ritual implement of the Shang and Zhou ancestral temples that kept a place in state sacrifice until the Qing, the Chinese tao drum (tao 鼗) survives today as the bolanggu, a children’s toy and peddler’s rattle whose original...
This essay examines how contemporary forms of Christian nationalism shape some British Christians’ theological attitudes toward migration and mission. In an age marked by deepening anti-migration anxiety, the paper explores how theological narr...
The Woman’s Messenger, or Nüduo in Chinese Pinyin, the first Chinese Christian women’s journal founded by the Christian Literature Society for China, played a pivotal role in promoting women’s emancipation and constructing fema...
Practical theology seeks to equip Christian ministers to respond faithfully and creatively to complex pastoral situations that resist conventional solutions. This article argues that practical theology is best understood as a theology of action, gene...
This article examines Jewish ethics as a normative field whose demands are not exhausted by explicit prescriptions of halakhah. It distinguishes morality, understood as duties owed to others by virtue of their humanity; ethics, understood as standard...
The influence of Islamic law on mosque architecture is a growing field of study that remains in its infancy. Existing studies often focus on the historicity, ornamentation, and architectural significance of mosques and their constituent parts, such a...
As early as the Middle Ages, Christian worship employed a wide range of visual, auditory, and performative strategies to render the sacred experience more vivid and immediate, translating the principal mysteries of Christianity into tangible forms th...
Histories of Protestant missions use the “modern missionary movement” to describe the voluntary societies, networks, and structures that emerged around William Carey in the late eighteenth century. Using a conceptual-historical framework,...
Church music is commonly discussed as a liturgical, theological, aesthetic, or cultural practice, while its character as a professional field has received less systematic attention. This article conceptualises church music as a liturgical profession...
Vatican II describes the Church as “in Christ like a sacrament” (in Christo veluti sacramentum), a “sign and instrument” of communion with God and of the unity of humankind (Lumen Gentium 1). This article interprets the formul...
Xi Zhen Zheng Da (希真正答, True Answers of the Very Real) by Wang Daiyu (王岱舆, ca. 1592–1658), a Chinese Muslim scholar of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, is a dialogue record composed in que...
This article explores the anthropological mechanisms underlying abuse, both within and outside the Church, through a theological reading of Genesis 2. Read as a mythical and symbolic account of the human condition, Genesis 2 presents human beings as...
Why should sīla lead to samādhi? If samādhi is interpreted as an independently trainable capacity for sustained concentration, its systematic dependence on ethical and motivational cultivation is difficult to explain. I argue that, in...
This article examines the rhetorical and stylistic phenomenon of “highlighting the ending” in prophetic literary units within the Hebrew Bible, situating it within the broader framework of oral–performative culture. Building on the...
This paper examines the Korean ethic of the shared household, salim, read through Christian political theology, process thought, and the ecumenically ecotheological liberation of all beings. It addresses the logic of a modernity empowered by its reli...
The God of mainline monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—promised to Abram that ‘in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed’ (Genesis 12:3). This blessing includes a gift of righteous life in relation to God...
This study examines how Pope Francis’ vision of integral ecology has been received, interpreted, and translated into practice within the Korean Catholic Church as a local Church. It advances three related arguments. First, integral ecology oper...
After the expulsions of 1420/21 in the persecution known as the ‘Vienna Gezerah’, Pressburg in the Kingdom of Hungary (today Bratislava in Slovakia) became a place of refuge for a number of Jews from the Duchy of Austria. They found shelt...
In this article, I outline a model of “messianic psychoanalysis”—a psychoanalysis “slightly adjusted” to incorporate the future-oriented dimension of hope characteristic of the Jewish messianic idea—through a close...
This article reads Dante’s Commedia as a mythic-religious macro-narrative of spiritual transformation. Building on the interpretation of the journey as an itinerarium mentis in Deum, it examines the Thomistic degrees of charity—incipiente...
Reflecting Weimar-era crises, this study addresses contemporary democratic and technological divisions by proposing an alternative spatiotemporal foundation. It constructs a dialogue between Walter Benjamin’s messianic critique, Carl Schmitt&rs...
In 1909 Abdürreşid İbrahim (1857–1944), a Tatar Muslim intellectual from the Russian Empire, spent about ten days in Korea and recorded the visit in Âlem-i İslâm. Previous scholarship has examined the account pri...
This article examines how missionary translations of international law shaped mid-19th-century China’s interaction with the Western world. Drawing on primary historical archives, it reveals how missionaries intertwined with both American and Ch...
This article examines the ethical framework of Bete Israel (Ethiopian Jews) as a coherent Jewish moral tradition shaped within the distinctive historical and religious environment of Ethiopia and rooted in covenantal theology, biblical law, and lived...
This essay reflects on Walter Brueggemann’s influence as a theologian and ethicist, with reference to the recent book The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story. It traces Brueggemann’s thinking about his own b...
This study examined how the Daoist desire for longevity and immortality was recontextualized within the Confucian order of ye-ak (ritual propriety and music) in Joseon court culture, how it was made sensorially perceptible through material objects, b...
This article takes up the critique of ‘generic chaplaincy’ forwarded by the journal Christian Bioethics. The historical characterization of chaplaincy that shapes this critique is challenged by the work of Gunter Risse, Christopher Swift,...
Contemporary discourse on the ecological crisis is split between technomanagerialism and preservationism, yet both share the premise that the human subject and the natural object were separate to begin with. This article reinterprets Maturana and Var...
Necromancy is consistently condemned in the received form of the Hebrew Bible, yet the same corpus preserves ritual knowledge and conceptual frameworks that are difficult to reconcile with the idea that consultation of the dead was always foreign to...
This article investigates the contested religious identities of Waraqah ibn Nawfal and the Negus of Abyssinia (Arabic: al-Najāshī) and argues that the Prophet Muḥammad’s engagement with both figures reflects a form of contextual...
This article examines how the Marian principle can contribute to the understanding and actualisation of a synodal Church. In light of the two ways in which the principle has been received in the papal magisterium and contemporary theology—one r...
