This article outlines the history of the commerce in medicinal plants and plant-based remedies from the Spanish American territories in the eighteenth century. It maps the routes used to transport the plants from Spanish America to Europe and, along the arteries of European commerce, colonialism and proselytism, into societies across the Americas, Asia and Africa. Inquiring into the causes of t...

This study aims to describe "da'wah pencerahan” (enlightening proselytism) in the mitigation sphere of West Sulawesi earthquake survivors, conducted by Muhammadiyah Disaster Management Center (MDMC). research is a qualitative using phenomenological approach. The findings state that, first, enlightening da'wah carried out through number socio-cultural activities that are oriented toward building...

Orthodox–Evangelical relationships are dominated by proselytism (at least in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union). This is understood as church conversion practiced through unfair means among people who already Christians, belonging to so-called “historical churches.” However, beyond it, there a real potential for cooperation using moral values starting point. As an increasing disagreeme...

In the early 1980s, Catholic Church in Algeria was experiencing upheaval, having been depopulated almost overnight when great majority of Christians had left country and resettled France or elsewhere after Algerian proclamation independence two decades earlier. The remaining were regarded not only as a reduced minority but mostly reminding symbol an era political religious colonization. need de...

This paper focuses on the relationships between schizophrenia and religion, on the basis of a review of literature and the data of an ongoing study about religiousness and spiritual coping conducted among outpatients with chronic schizophrenia. Religion (including both spirituality and religiousness) is salient in the lives of many people suffering from schizophrenia. However, psychiatric resea...