This article adds to our understanding of late medieval women's religious writing by examining the role Virgin Mary in Mechthild Magdeburg's thirteenth-century mystical text The Flowing Light Godhead ( Das fließende Licht der Gottheit ). was ubiquitous writing, but she played different roles and modeled ways life, reflecting particular aims individual authors. In Mechthild's text, is depicted a...

The present study intended to propose a causal model of factors that would predict Oral Communication Apprehension (OCA) of Iranian learners of English as a foreign language. To conduct the study, 135 male and female University students majoring in English were selected. Five variables including: learners’self-esteem and introversion/extroversion(as independent variables), their gender and prof...

in this article, the author studies the history of pluralism in the west and islamic world. then he has a look on the scopes and applications of pluralism and gives a new classification for it: 1- behavioral pluralism 2- cognitive pluralism he extends his philosophical thoughts and offers a novel point of view on this topic.

undoubtedly, the disability to express the mystical experiences is what all mystics in east or west have rigid consensus on; it means that mystical facts and high concepts obtained through intuition aren’t possible to be expressed.  jalāl al-dīn muhammad balkhī, mowlavi has clearly explained in his masnavi the different forms of the issue and actually shows the literal difficulties to express m...

molavi's theological and mystical point of view on determinism is different. he criticizes of theological determinism, but advocates of mystical determinism. molavi refuses the determinists' belief about determinism because it has unfavorable results in worldly and eternal life. but he accepts the free and amorous determinism of mystics. his reasons in refusing theological determinism...

OBJECTIVE To examine factors that are associated with the apprehension levels of oncology nurses toward hospice care. Factors examined in this study included demographics, nursing experience, education levels, title and post, personal experiences, and attitudes toward end-of-life care. METHODS Questionnaires were provided to nurses (n=201) from three first-tier hospitals in China. A quantitat...