Commercial links and a common orientation towards maritime trade continued to bind Southeast Asian Austronesian communities together in historical times, and the spread of Islam is regarded as a consequence of these cultural ties. Islam required many changes in traditional Austronesian social and religious practices, as did Christianity, but the strength of Austronesian tradition, reinforced gr...

Working on a broad canvas, this paper provides a comprehensive introduction to the historical region of Punjab. Starting with references in the Rigveda, the region has undergone many administrative changes. Using early sources, the paper reconstructs the settlement patterns, changing life of the people across the five Doabs and the emergence of distinct religious communities. In the latter half...

This study aims to describe and analyze of management in an effort form students' self-reliant attitudes. The research location is at the Pesantren El Futhah Patimuan Cilacap. Research qualitative. results are that (a)there arrangements attitude students, (b) implementation program Pembentukan Sikap kemandirian Santri (PSKS), (c)the PSKS includes religious, foreign languages, skills production,...

Despite recent advances in the field of religion and health, meaningful findings will increasingly depend on the capacity to conceptualize "religion" properly. To date, scientists' conception of religion has been shaped by the Enlightenment paradigm. However, recent developments in philosophy make the "objectivity" of the Enlightenment paradigm problematic, if not untenable. Contrary to common ...

In this paper we present the Per-Fide project, aimed at the construction of parallel corpora mapping the Portuguese language to six other languages English, Russian, French, Italian, German and Spanish in various domains including literary, journalistic and religious texts. First we will focus on the corpus design criteria and its main features, particularly those that distinguish this corpus f...

Abstract Religions use linguistic and non-linguistic codes of meaning to express their contents: natural tongues, music, sculpture, poetry, rituals, practices... Also, religions provide the semantic context rules produce, validate, interpret expressions: as such, can be considered languages. The Sophia Special Issue ‘Religions Languages: A Polyphony Faiths’ explores multifaceted relationships w...