Replies to comments by M. Glassman and D. Karno and R. K. Unger, on the author's original article on ideology. J. T. Jost thanks Glassman and Karno for returning him to his philosophical roots. Glassman and Karno argued in favor of an "instrumental pragmatist" approach to the study of ideology that emphasizes the strategic, purposive, goal-directed nature of political rhetoric and belief. He ag...

We present a theory of the creativity of dreams as well as psychopathology of religious delusions with respect to production of fundamental forms of religious cognition-specifically supernatural agent (SA) cognitions. We suggest that dream cognitions are particularly efficient at producing highly memorable and impactful experiences with SAs because dreams involve three processes that are prereq...

The black Jewish movement in the United States is an African American new religious often linked to gods. This thought raises concerns and questions. Firstly, if assertions of Jews are factual, what happens biblical Israelites their historicity? Secondly, background Jews, how does that relate Israel? Thirdly, primary claims Jews? article a critical evaluation religious-historical, theological A...

Batı dünyasında bilim ve felsefe alanındaki gelişmeler inanç karşıtı akımların ortaya çıkmasına neden olmuş, 19. yüzyılın ikinci yarısından itibaren İslâm dünyası Osmanlı coğrafyasını da etkisi altına almaya başlamıştır. Bu bağlamda din akımlarla mücadelede daha güncel etkili yöntemlerin gerekliliği ifade edilmiş, çağın getirdiği şüpheler karşısında yeni felsefenin öğrenilmesi kelâm disiplinine...

This paper presents an attempt to systematically describe and interpret the evolution of different religious political movements in Judaea during period Second Temple using methods theory social networks. We extensively analyzed relationship between main Jewish sects: Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes (Qumranites), later also Zealots. It is shown that relations these sects agreed with balance their...

The 19 century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard was a profoundly religious thinker. He is also regarded as the father of Existentialism, one of the most important philosophical movements of the 20 century. The term ‘existentialist’ is applied to those philosophers, like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, who held that the foundation of all philosophical thought is to be found in the actual,...

This ar ticle reports original research conducted among animal rights activists and elites in Switzerland and the United States, and the Žnding that activism functioned in activists’ and elites’ lives like religious belief. The study used reference sampling to select Swiss and American informants.Various articles and activists have identiŽed both latent and manifest quasi-religious components i...