The construction and destruction of the sand mandala (A) in Tibetan Buddhism symbolizes both the beauty of form and the fleeting nature of its existence. D’Arcy Thompson, in the second edition of his seminal 1917 book “On Growth and Form”, used the analogy of a milk splash (B) to illustrate such contrasting perfection and impermanence in biology. According to Thompson, morphology and morphogene...

objectives: the aim of this study was to survey relationship between religious orientation and happiness in elderly man and woman in tehran. methods and materials: the present study was descriptive and causal- comparative. in order to survey the relationship between religious orientation and happiness among the elderly men and women in tehran 389 aged people above 60 years including 247 men and...

The purpose of this study is to present an analysis the teachings and ideals life thought Imam Rabbani Ahmad Sirhindi’s followers inspires Muslims world pursue path truth, welfare, justice. We tried collect data from secondary sources found that various superstitions entered Sufism when many non-Islamic issues permeated Islam. has made tireless efforts in writings discourses through return Isla...

This paper will discuss the issue of textual and contextual concepts al-birr in Qur'an according to Sayyid Qutb tafseer fi Zilal al-Qur'an. After that it be explained detail differences model goodness based on mufassir, express modern opinion contained his interpretation. classifies into 3 virtues, namely religion, social character. Each verse containing lafad has different models methods. The ...

A Common Faith is arguably one of John Dewey’s least eff ective books. In it, he tries to persuade readers that the best of two epistemologically diff erent worlds can be reconciled in a common faith—one that employs the methods of science with a generously religious attitude. Possibly most of us today believe this cannot be done; that is, the two worlds will remain unreconciled. But perhaps, w...

Contrary to some predictions, it appears religion is coming back. We are constantly being reminded that religion is becoming more important again in late modernity. Despite this, religion is still “banished to the sidelines in the contemporary field of theoretical struggle” (Beckford 2003: 12). Moreover, when religion is studied, it is often a concept of ‘religion’ so reified and generalised as...

OBJECTIVE This study compared the ways in which psychiatrists and nonpsychiatrists interpret the relationship between religion/spirituality and health and address religion/spirituality issues in the clinical encounter. METHOD The authors mailed a survey to a stratified random sample of 2,000 practicing U.S. physicians, with an oversampling of psychiatrists. The authors asked the physicians ab...

The Christian Church has traditionally held that the inspiration of Holy Scripture is verbal, plenary, and confluent. But such an affirmation may seem to be incoherent. For if Scripture is the product of both divine and human free agency, then it seems impossible that God should have sufficient control of the various authors of Scripture so as to produce a Word that is verbally and plenarily hi...