In the ten years since the publication of Michael Hardt’s and Antonio Negri’s Empire, the relationship between Christianity and global capital has received increasing theological attention among the adherents, critics, sympathizers, and apostates of Radical Orthodoxy. At stake in this conversation is the possibility that Christianity might provide a universal ontology sufficient to ground a cou...

dionysius is one of the most important personages in christian mystic that some of his ideas were up to now popular ideas in christian theosophy, theology and philosophy. christian doctrine and neo-platonic ideas are viewed as two main sources for his opinions; although he sometimes leans to one and the rest to another. for example, in discussion about creation, angelology and trinity he tended...

This article explores the life and importance of Mary in Islam and Christianity, aiming at clarifying the criteria for which Mary has been revered in each tradition. It will be shown that Mary in Christianity is almost merely important because she was the mother of Jesus, while the Muslim reverence for her is based on her own noble characteristics. From the Muslim perspective, even if Mary had ...

Tattoos play an important role in many religions. Tattoos have been used for thousands of years as important tools in ritual and tradition. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have been hostile to the use of tattoos, but many religions, in particular Buddhism and Hinduism, make extensive use of them. This article examines their use as tools for protection and devotion.

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...

Islamic bioethics derives from a combination of principles, duties and rights, and, to a certain extent, a call to virtue. In Islam, bioethical decision-making is carried out within a framework of values derived from revelation and tradition. It is intimately linked to the broad ethical teachings of the Qur'an and the tradition of the Prophet Muhammed, and thus to the interpretation of Islamic ...

a critical analysis of reader-text, especially the sacred texts as the important topic of hermeneutic, is one of the focal points of attention among scholars of humanities. this paper, through a comparative study between the bible and the qur’an, concentrates on the image of woman in the account of creation. the paper first shows that there are deep differences between these two sacred texts co...

Rolls' presentation of emotion as integral to cognition is a welcome counter to a long tradition of treating them as antagonists. His eduction of experimental evidence in support of this view is impressive. However, we nd Rolls' excursion into the philosophy of consciousness less successful. Rolls gives syntactical manipulation the central role in consciousness (in stark contrast to Searle, for...

The article explores recurring motifs of dying, resurrection and sacrifice in the Harry Potter series that one way or another are related to theme death its religious interpretation. author this analyzes exact ways which J.K. Rowling builds semantic fields death, «marrying» tradition with modernity referring intertextuality, especially her use elements from Christianity tradition.