in modern world, there is a strong need and necessity for defending of religion in different ways. one of the defenses that nowadays is accepted by some people is pragmatic defense which is going to show the positive effects of religion in people's life. the present study is a pragmatic defense of religion which relies essentially on psychological function of religion. for this reason at t...

leaving some important elements of the traditional phenomenology of religion aside, ninian smart proposes the dynamic phenomenology of religion or, in other words, the historical- comparative method, the main concern of which is to set evolutions of religious phenomena in their historical context. he holds that there are two mistakes in contemporary religious studies and philosophy of religion:...

In the beginning was the Word. Often quoted, these opening words from the Gospel according to John nonetheless show that the relationship between language and religion goes beyond intimacy to identity. Whether this is taken as a specific moment in the theorization of one religion, the culmination of a particular line of thinking, or a more general truth about how humans grasp the essence of the...

Recent functional neuroimaging data, acquired in studies of religious experience, have been used to explain and justify religion and its origins. In this paper, we critique the move from describing brain activity associated with self-reported religious states, to explaining why there is religion at all. Toward that end, first we review recent neuroimaging findings on religious experience, and s...

In his philosophical project of a “deconstruction monotheism,” Jean-Luc Nancy explores the hypothesis that historical roots secularization should be traced back to beginnings monotheistic traditions. The secular is not exclusively feature modern culture. complex connections and tensions between secularity religion in recent decades can only analyzed effectively if one rethinks notion along thes...

Written by Russian playwright Asya Voloshina, the 2013 Antigona : Redukciia is, as author herself refers to it, 'a political satire with elements of poetry and reduction', which recasts Sophocles' title character, Antigone, from an existentialist tragic figure a rebel, whose actions protest become inevitably ironically performative in highly mediatised culture social media influencers post-trut...