The Emerging Church is one of the more interesting new movements in the religious landscape of the United States today. The Emerging Church has come out of US Evangelicalism, which has found itself in crisis, with a diminishing number of young people remaining in the church and a general popular impression of being intolerant, judgmental, and right-wing. Many in the Emerging Church are attempti...

Since the 1980s, Tibetan religious leaders and Vinaya scholars have been examining possibility of restoring Buddhist ordination vow lineage for women (Tib. dge slong ma, gelongma) in India. These focus primarily on canonical prescriptions emphasize that this issue precludes questions gender equality (pho mo ‘dra mnyam). However, little attention has paid to perspectives Himalayan monastics outs...

T homas Merton, the American intellectual turned Trappist monk, recounts in The Seven Storey Mountain that his conversion to Catholicism was triggered by reading an account of a sermon in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a novel that draws from Joyce’s own departure from the faith. Merton fully recognizes the oddness and paradox of such a reading, but there was something, ...

This article explores how two influential 8th-century Indian philosophers, Śaṅkara and Kamalaśīla, treat the threefold scheme of learning, reasoning, meditation in their spiritual path philosophies. They have differing institutional ontological commitments: former, who helped establish Advaita Vedānta as religious philosophy an elite Hindu monastic tradition, affirms unchanging “self” (ātman) i...

This article is an attempt to reread Psalm 121 in African context with reference the culture of Yoruba people Nigeria. The study considers certain Eurocentric interpretation Book Psalms which Africans maintained do not meet their social, physical and spiritual aspirations. An Bible adopts world view. In this study, interpreted light help protection are greatest needs people. Biblical Hermeneuti...

The article examines the biblical tradition of understanding women and their place in public relations. It is claimed that most detailed study tradition, it does not carry destructive power was later given to by theologians philosophers. Researchers point out every woman mentioned Scriptures accidental symbolic. a model God's action, personification Kingdom God. theological insists on equality ...

The subject of the study is Buddhism in context state system medieval Chinese society. author examines detail such aspects topic as place traditional concept government, well studying general parameters functioning and interaction religious secular institutions government. Special attention paid to relationship between China on example analysis Hui Yuan's polemical treatise "Shamen Bujing wangz...