New Secular Religion and the Clash with Neotraditional Great Religions

Mircea Eliade: ‘Secular mysticism’ and the history of religions

This essay considers the origins of theoretical understanding in lived experience and the implications this principle might have on our understanding of Mircea Eliade’s approach to religion. It inspects possible sources of Eliade’s theoretical understanding of religion in his descriptions of his lived experience and considers whether specifically ‘religious’ experience would be most likely to b...

Religion, Politics and Gender Equality Public Religions Revisited

Immortality in the Great Religions and Myths of Iran, Mesopotamia, Sumer, and Greece

In every mythological story, a quest for immortality and eternality depicts man’s inner fervor for unity with gods and the supreme power. Man seeks full immersion in life and longs for immortality at the same time. In other words, he wants to live both in time and in eternity. The desire for eternity in man shows his ceaseless struggle with time, and even more so an intense fight with death to ...

The World’s Great Religions and Their Neglected Tropical Diseases

1 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, 4 Scowcrof...

Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851