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Experiences that involve claims regarding deities, extraordinary abilities, and/or psychopathology offer an important site for investigating the interplay of mind and culture at the population level. However, the difficulties inherent in comparing culture-laden experiences, exacerbated by the siloing of research on experiences based on discipline-specific theoretical constructs, have limited our ability to do so. We introduce the Inventory of Nonordinary Experiences (INOE), which allows researchers to compare experiences by separating the phenomenological features from how they are appraised and asking about both. 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They are discussed together due to a common... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">This article deals with several phenomena, quite different in their character and association with various academic disciplines (ethnology, folkloristics, history of religions and archaeology). They are discussed together due to a common component that permeates them – the human nose, and even more specifically – the insect (fly or bee) that stands on it. In this case, they are explored through a comparative, interdisciplinary and diachronic analysis in order to arrive at the essential meaning of each of them, which had remained incompletely resolved within the framework of the native academic disciplines that have previously studied them. First discussed are the folkloric (non-canonical) traditions about St. Tryphon belonging to the fields of ethnology, folkloristics and folk literature, where it is told that he had cut off his nose while pruning the vineyards. The study begins with a narratological analysis of the material, while undertaking its typologization and determination of the main characters. Noted subsequently are the key actions related to them, which mainly consist in the cutting of Tryphon’s nose that takes place while he is pruning the vineyard. Thereby, the suggested motivation is his implicit incest regarding the Virgin Mary (presented as his sister in these folktales), manifested through certain sexual insinuations addressed to her. Based on that, the author suggests to treat the cutting of the nose should as a symbolic castration which in traditional societies was as a common punishment for such or similar transgressions.<br /><br />Keywords: Saint Tryphon, nose, phallus, incest, castration, fly, bee, grapes, pruning of the vineyard, wine, Attis/Agdistis and Cybele, Lycurgus, funeral mask, Trebenishte</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128423184/The_nose_of_St_Tryphon_and_the_insect_on_the_nose_of_the_gold_mask_from_Trebenishte_%D0%9D%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%82_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%84%D1%83%D0%BD_%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%82_%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B7_%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%82_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B7%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%88%D1%82%D0%B5"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/122007724/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128415461/Explanatory_pluralism_in_the_social_sciences">Explanatory pluralism in the social sciences</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://uconn.academia.edu/xygalatas">Dimitris Xygalatas</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, In: N. Tsironis, N. Papageorgiou, S. Tsompanides & P. Pachis (eds.), Τιμητικό αφιέρωμα στον ομότιμο καθηγητή Ιωάννη Σ. Πέτρου. Μπαρμπουνάκης, 741-750</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">n recent years, critical perspectives in the social sciences have highlighted serious issues with current research practices and made appeals for methodological reform. It has been noted, for instance, that psychological studies... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">n recent years, critical perspectives in the social sciences have highlighted serious issues with current research practices and made appeals for methodological reform. It has been noted, for instance, that psychological studies overwhelmingly rely on the use of an extremely limited sample pool (North American college undergraduates) to make generalizations about human nature. As it turns out, however, that sample pool is particularly atypical so much that both cross-culturally and historically it consists of outliers, as can be seen in numerous behavioral and cognitive tasks 2 . Another recently identified issue is what has come to be known as the replication crisis 3 , that is, the finding that the results of many classical social scientific experiments fail to replicate. This has dire implications, as it undermines the foundations of social scientific theories that had previously been thought to be solid. As a result of these realizations, there are now coordinated efforts to address these problems through expanding subject pools and systematic replication projects. However, I worry that these efforts are often misguided, because they do not address the underlying problem. At its core, the problem is one of ecological validity. It pertains to the relationship between the local and the global, between specifics</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128415461/Explanatory_pluralism_in_the_social_sciences"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/122000909/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); 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In spite of attempts to deconstruct such propositions in recent decades by scholars many secondary sources on Medieval Indian history largely remain to be unchanged. The geo-cultural permeation of “Deccan” as a unified cultural identity encompassing varieties of similarities through ideas and institutions explored under the Hoyasala-Kakatiya-Yadava periods, i.e. from 1006–1346, 1083–1323 and 1187–1317 from Dwarasamudra to Orugallu to Devagiri respectively. The primary aim and objective of this chapter is to highlight the many variables that synchronized the distinctive regional societies in the medieval history of India as history in transition and a history of transition. Deccan witnessed a period of progressive change from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries in contrast to a historiographical moribund entity. The Hoyasala-Kakatiya-Yadava evolved political systems and networks, extended agrarian settlements and commercial activities, constructed numerous sites and catered religious institutions. The growth of the regional societies is the most significant and outstanding feature of the Medieval Indian world which commands prominent recognition. 800–1400 AD expressed the expansion in the territorial spread of “historic” society in India, a civilizational legacy in the form of monumental structures and exemplary written documents, it changed the course and differentiated in forms propelling agrarian expansion and demographic increase. The diverse configurations synthesized local societies and their culture into a pan-Indic identity.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128366887/Dwarasamudra_to_Orugallu_to_Devagiri_Regions_and_Regionalism_in_Geo_cultural_Permeation_Tenth_to_Fourteenth_Centuries"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121960533/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); 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These notes serve as a quick reference for those interested in the... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">A structured summary of my study on verticality, this unfinished work seeks to move beyond the schematisation, tautology, and reductionism which pervades the discussion. These notes serve as a quick reference for those interested in the treatise. <br /> <br />The study presents a philosophical and phenomenological investigation of verticality as a cultural, physiological, and symbolic image, and challenges the idea that the schematisation of 'vertical metaphors' is completely arbitrary. <br /> <br />I attempt a pre-scientific, speculative, and interdisciplinary method, arguing that the experience of space is pre-linguistic and therefore requires a radically holistic approach. <br /> <br />Drawing notably on thinkers such as Jung, Von Franz, Bachelard, and Plotinus, I emphasise the phenomenological primacy of bodily engagement with gravity and spatial perception as foundational to the schematisation of vertical imagery. <br /> <br />Hopefully, this inquiry provides a richer understanding of how space, embodiment, and imagination converge in the landscape of verticality, and its influence in consciousness and culture.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128329421/Verticality_in_Thought_Language_and_Symbolism_A_Philosophical_and_Phenomenological_Inquiry_Summary_and_Key_Themes"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121937458/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128321282/TMA_The_Essence_of_Lilith_and_the_Astrological_Black_Moon">TMA The Essence of Lilith and the Astrological Black Moon</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/CharlotteWenner">Charlotte Wenner</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, The Mountain Astrologer</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">This article reviews the various myths concerning the Sumerian - Mesopotamian Lilith and the astrological Black Moon. Popular misconceptions surround the interpretation of this astrological factor, and this can be traced to the... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">This article reviews the various myths concerning the Sumerian - Mesopotamian Lilith and the astrological Black Moon. Popular misconceptions surround the interpretation of this astrological factor, and this can be traced to the metamorphosis of Lilith through history.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128321282/TMA_The_Essence_of_Lilith_and_the_Astrological_Black_Moon"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121922532/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128282381/Facets_of_Institutionalized_Buddhism_in_Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean">Facets of Institutionalized Buddhism in Latin America and the Caribbean</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://pucsp.academia.edu/FrankUsarski">Frank Usarski</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, International Journal of Latin Amrican Religions</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">Buddhism in Latin America and the Caribbean is still a demanding field of esearch. Most of the existing studies are limited to specific countries, primarily Brazil and Argentina. The few publications that approach the issue within a... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Buddhism in Latin America and the Caribbean is still a demanding field of esearch. Most of the existing studies are limited to specific countries, primarily Brazil and Argentina. The few publications that approach the issue within a broader geopolitical context such as Central America, South America, or Latin America do not have sufficient academic depth. The present article contributes to filling this gap. Based on an inventory of Buddhist centers and temples established in the region the article offers an overview of the current state and common denominators of institutionalized Buddhism in Latin America and the Caribbean.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128282381/Facets_of_Institutionalized_Buddhism_in_Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121889619/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128273468/KAHRAMANMARA%C5%9ETA_HALK_HEKiML%C4%B0%C4%9E%C4%B0_%C4%B0NAN%C3%87_VE_UYGULAMALARI">KAHRAMANMARAŞ'TA HALK HEKiMLİĞİ, İNANÇ VE UYGULAMALARI</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/LaleY%C3%BCce">Lale Yüce</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">Halk hekimliği, hayvanların kendilerini içgüdüsel olarak tedavi edişini gözlemleyen insanoğlunun benzer yöntemleri hastalıkların sağaltımında kullanmasıyla ortaya çıkmıştır. Şamanizm ve Orta Asya Türk kültürünün etkisiyle oluşan Türk halk... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Halk hekimliği, hayvanların kendilerini içgüdüsel olarak tedavi edişini gözlemleyen insanoğlunun benzer yöntemleri hastalıkların sağaltımında kullanmasıyla ortaya çıkmıştır. Şamanizm ve Orta Asya Türk kültürünün etkisiyle oluşan Türk halk hekimliği, yaşamaya devam ettiği topluluğun inanç sistemini, tecrübelerini, gözlemlerini ve kültürünü millî çerçeve içerisinde yaşatmaktadır. Birkaç yüzyıl öncesine kadar insanların tedavi olanaklarına kolay ulaşamaması ve modern tıbbın tam olarak gelişememesi gibi sebeplerle halk hekimliği oldukça önemli bir yere sahip olmuştur. Çalışmanın sınırlılığını oluşturan Kahramanmaraş ili, halk hekimliği inanç ve uygulamaları bakımından oldukça zengin bir kültüre sahiptir. Bu sebeple çalışmada ilk olarak Kahramanmaraş, farklı perspektiflerden ele alınmış ardından Türk halk hekimliğinin tanımı, tarihi, sağaltım yöntemleri ve Türk halk anlatılarındaki halk hekimliği unsurlarına değinilmiştir. Üçüncü bölümde yazılı kaynaklarda yer alan Kahramanmaraş halk hekimliği yöntemleri, kaynak kişilere yöneltilen 105 adet sorudan hareketle oluşturulan derleme sonucuna ve yöredeki sağaltım tekniklerine yer verilmiş, ardından Kahramanmaraş halk hekimliğindeki ocaklara değinilmiş, son olarak yöredeki tedavi yöntemlerine dair genel bir değerlendirme yapılarak tamamlanmıştır. Derleme ve tarama sonucu ortaya çıkan veriler Türk halk hekimliği sağaltım yöntem ve teknikleri içerisinde değerlendirilmiştir. Çalışmanın çerçevesi dahilinde ulaşılan ziyaret yerleri, şifalı sular ve tedavide kullanılan otların fotoğrafları ekler kısmında gösterilmiştir.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128273468/KAHRAMANMARA%C5%9ETA_HALK_HEKiML%C4%B0%C4%9E%C4%B0_%C4%B0NAN%C3%87_VE_UYGULAMALARI"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121881948/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128225801/Dossi%C3%AA_Allan_Kardec_vida_ideias_obras_e_influ%C3%AAncias_Tem%C3%A1tica_Livre">Dossiê: Allan Kardec: vida, ideias, obras e influências -Temática Livre</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://faculdadevicentina.academia.edu/RodrigoApolloni">Rodrigo Apolloni</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, HORIZONTE - Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">Hinduísmo e Budismo são duas das religiões mais expressivas do mundo em número de adeptos. São, também, originárias de uma mesma região, o Subcontinente Indiano. Para além disso, ao longo do tempo, em especial nas etapas iniciais do... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Hinduísmo e Budismo são duas das religiões mais expressivas do mundo em número de adeptos. São, também, originárias de uma mesma região, o Subcontinente Indiano. Para além disso, ao longo do tempo, em especial nas etapas iniciais do Budismo, elas compartilham uma série de elementos teológicos e simbólicos. Mesmo assim, constituíram-se como sistemas religiosos próprios, com dinâmicas próprias, que, em muitos aspectos, não se misturam e até se opõem. Este artigo busca examinar as divergências substanciais entre Hinduísmo e Budismo. Para isso, propõe um trajeto circular, que parte das semelhanças entre ambas as religiões para além do lugar comum, para, então, ocupar-se das diferenças substanciais.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128225801/Dossi%C3%AA_Allan_Kardec_vida_ideias_obras_e_influ%C3%AAncias_Tem%C3%A1tica_Livre"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121842307/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128224308/Note_The_Headings_Will_All_Be_Numbered_with_Roman_Numerals_I_Introduction_The_Deep_Problem_of_Hegel_s_Analysis">Note: The Headings Will All Be Numbered with Roman Numerals I. Introduction: The Deep Problem of Hegel’s Analysis</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/RyanCurnow">Ryan Curnow</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s historical analysis of Buddhist philosophy not only fails as a sound interpretation of that tradition, it also well-exemplifies the Western practice of Orientalism as elucidated by Edward Said. I attempt to... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s historical analysis of Buddhist philosophy not only fails as a sound interpretation of that tradition, it also well-exemplifies the Western practice of Orientalism as elucidated by Edward Said. I attempt to demonstrate this in three major parts: the nature of Orientalism as a concept and practice, the Orientalist analytical process that Hegel employs in judging Buddhism as well as religions in general, and how Hegel’s understanding does not work against a more charitably interpreted Buddhist defense. Moreover, I argue that the Orientalist erroneousness of Hegel’s reading deeply complicates his hierarchical philosophy of world history. 92 93 STANCE | VOL. 14 NOTE: THE HEADINGS WILL ALL BE NUMBERED WITH ROMAN NUMERALS</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128224308/Note_The_Headings_Will_All_Be_Numbered_with_Roman_Numerals_I_Introduction_The_Deep_Problem_of_Hegel_s_Analysis"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121841076/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128203258/Identity_Negotiation_of_Christian_and_Muslim_Students_in_Interaction_Between_Religions_in_Langsa">Identity Negotiation of Christian and Muslim Students in Interaction Between Religions in Langsa</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/Muhammadsufyan83">Muhammad sufyan</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, MIQOT: Jurnal Ilmu-ilmu Keislaman</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">This article describes how negotiation between the Christian and Muslim students in public place at Langsa. The objectives of the study are twofold, namely: the reason of Christian students deciding Langsa as the place of study despite... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">This article describes how negotiation between the Christian and Muslim students in public place at Langsa. The objectives of the study are twofold, namely: the reason of Christian students deciding Langsa as the place of study despite different social condition from their own place and the pattern of negotiation conducted by the Christian students. Negotiation identity theory and national choice theory are used to know the reason of Christian students pointing Langsa as the place of study. using qualitative method with the phenomenal approach, it is found that the tolerance and harmony interaction between Christian and Muslims student in public place at Langsa. The pattern of negotiation used in public place at Langsa is: functional biculturalism that respect the different identity. this pattern is more effective to gain the culture shock and get the interaction easily the Christian and Muslim students in public place at Langsa. Interaksi antar Agama di Kota Langsa. Tulisan ini menjelaskan pengalaman mahasiswa Kristiani bernegosiasi dengan mahasiswa Muslim dalam ruang publik di Langsa. Mendasarkan pada ruang sosial yang berbeda dengan kondisi mahasiswa Kristiani, pembahasan dimaksudkan untuk mengungkap alasan mahasiswa Kristiani memilih kuliah di Langsa yang berbeda kondisi sosial dengan daerah asalnya. Dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif dan pendekatan fenomenologis, didapatkan sebuah gambaran interaksi yang toleran antara mahasiswa Muslim dan Kristiani dalam ruang publik di Langsa. Adapun bentuk pola negosiasi yang dilakukan dalam ruang publik yaitu bikultarisme fungsional dengan menghargai identitas yang berbeda dengan aktor. Pola ini dianggap lebih efektif untuk menyelesaikan keterkejutan terhadap budaya baru dan memudahkan berinteraksi mahasiswa Kristiani dan Muslim dalam ruang publik di Langsa.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128203258/Identity_Negotiation_of_Christian_and_Muslim_Students_in_Interaction_Between_Religions_in_Langsa"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121823928/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128167811/A_Western_Scholars_Exposition_of_Islam">A Western Scholar's Exposition of Islam</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/BassamMichaelMadany">Bassam Michael Madany</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">This book's unique features provide readers with the necessary information to become acquainted with Islam without overwhelming them with too many details. It quotes at length from the Qur’an and the Hadith, and it includes several charts... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">This book's unique features provide readers with the necessary information to become acquainted with Islam without overwhelming them with too many details. It quotes at length from the Qur’an and the Hadith, and it includes several charts dealing with Authority and Tradition in Islam, the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah, the Historical Development of the Sects of Islam, the Islamic Prayer, and Islam's Heartland..</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128167811/A_Western_Scholars_Exposition_of_Islam"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121791237/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128157084/Where_is_History_A_Response_to_Re_defining_Esotericism_">Where is History? 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Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism</p></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128157084/Where_is_History_A_Response_to_Re_defining_Esotericism_"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121781899/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); 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I apply Jung's concept of archetypes (specifically, the Anima, Shadow, and Self archetypes) to the self-made American mythos that Thoreau intended to establish, using as a starting point the popular trope of Thoreau as an "American romantic" in order to investigate the intersection of American transcendentalism and Jungian therapy, in which one seeks to arrive at a true sense of Jungian Self. Overall, this work seeks to re-contextualize Thoreau's psychology, following his account of his own transcendence and processing it in terms of Jung's depth psychologyspecifically, linking the Jungian concept of individuating into a true sense of Self. v MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2nd ed.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128148077/Henry_Thoreau_and_Carl_Jung_More_Day_to_Dawn"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121774125/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128141428/The_temple_in_Sumer">The temple in Sumer</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://britishmuseum.academia.edu/SebastienRey">Sebastien Rey</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, British Museum Magazine Winter</p></div><div class="summary">Temples excavated in southern Iraq are the perfect embodiment of Sumerian beliefs about the universe.</div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128141428/The_temple_in_Sumer"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121768488/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128105175/Iyothee_Thassars_Buddha_and_Civilizational_Memory_Bloomsbury_Academic_2024_Pp_113_127">Iyothee Thassar's Buddha and Civilizational Memory. (Bloomsbury Academic 2024), Pp 113-127.</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://iitd.academia.edu/DickensLeonard">Dickens Leonard</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, Textual Lives of Caste Across the Ages</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">The Tamil historian, public intellectual, political leader and practitioner of Siddha medicine, Pandithar Iyothee Thassar (1845–1914), inaugurated a millennial anticaste historiography of India. Here I use the term ‘millennial’, following... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">The Tamil historian, public intellectual, political leader and practitioner of Siddha medicine, Pandithar Iyothee Thassar (1845–1914), inaugurated a millennial anticaste historiography of India. Here I use the term ‘millennial’, following scholarships on Thass, to index the century-long history, between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, of Tamil anti-caste thought. Through scholarly and creative engagement with ancient Buddhist thought, the Tamil language, and the Tamil literary<br />archive, Thass re-conceived India’s history as simultaneously global and local, equally a part of an evolving world community and an intimate vernacular dwelling. His was not only an anti-caste critique but an imagination of an open and egalitarian community, altogether indifferent to the caste provenance. This chapter studies Thass’s idiosyncratic<br />textual experiments with the figurations of the Buddha and Buddhism, with special attention to the ways in which it was distinct from Orientalist and nationalist modes of historicizing the Buddha as a fully integrated aspect of India’s civilizational inheritance.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128105175/Iyothee_Thassars_Buddha_and_Civilizational_Memory_Bloomsbury_Academic_2024_Pp_113_127"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121738066/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128100494/Raya_Even_David_Administrative_Manager_The_Center_for_the_Study_of_Conversion_and_Inter_Religious_Encounters_JEWTACT_project_funded_by_the_ERC">Raya Even-David Administrative Manager, * The Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters * JEWTACT project funded by the ERC</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://bgu.academia.edu/DaniellaTalmonHeller">Daniella Talmon-Heller</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">Religious traditions and communities are arenas of ideological and political struggles. They consist of factions that dispute theology, morality, law, mysticism, messianism, militancy, innovation, authority, ritual, canon, mission,... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Religious traditions and communities are arenas of ideological and political struggles. They consist of factions that dispute theology, morality, law, mysticism, messianism, militancy, innovation, authority, ritual, canon, mission, inclusion and exclusion, and many other issues. Religious disagreements are often intertwined with social and political power struggles, as factions compete for followers and seek to consolidate their influence and gain dominance. In some cases, ideological and political disputes lead to schisms and the formation of new sects, while in other cases they are resolved through implicit mutual recognition, and communal cohesion is preserved. Such dynamics have played crucial roles in the history and evolution of religions in all ages. For the 2025-26 academic year, the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters (CSoC) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will focus its activities on intrareligious disputes and divisions. Research students working on any of the world's religions or on comparative religion -whose work is rooted in disciplines such as Religious Studies, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Cultural Studies, Literature and the Arts, Conflict Resolution and Management -are invited to submit research proposals related to at least one of the following topics: 1. Case studies of doctrinal and moral disputes, their socio-political contexts, and/or consequences. 2. Case studies of disputes concerning religious law and practice, their socio-political contexts, and/or consequences. 3. Disagreements regarding canonical literature and its interpretation. 4. Religious wars and their interplay with politics. 5. Tolerance and intolerance in handling disputes; mechanisms for dispute resolution within religious traditions. 6. Transformation of disputes into accusations of blasphemy or heresy, leading to the emergence of new religious movements. 7. Historiography of religious disputes and divisions. 8. Ethnographic studies on the formation of new religious communities. 9. Gender perspectives on intra-religious disputes and divisions. 10. Struggles over religious authority. Raya Even-David Administrative Manager, * The Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters * JEWTACT project funded by the ERC</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128100494/Raya_Even_David_Administrative_Manager_The_Center_for_the_Study_of_Conversion_and_Inter_Religious_Encounters_JEWTACT_project_funded_by_the_ERC"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121733786/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128100023/THE_THRACIAN_MITHRA">THE THRACIAN MITHRA</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/%D0%9F%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2">Peter Georgiev</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, THE THRACIAN MITHRA</p></div><div class="summary">Stig Vikander, Leroy Campbell, E. Will write about the Balkan origin of Roman Mithraism. Here we will support this statement with facts from the religion and customs of the Balkans.</div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128100023/THE_THRACIAN_MITHRA"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121733355/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128092239/An_Esoteric_Reading_of_Biblical_Symbolism_Harriet_Tuttle_Bartlett_Biblical_Hermeneutics_Metaphysical_Ideas_of_the_Ancient_Hebrews_Keynotes_of_the_Bible_Story_of_Creation_Noah_and_the_Flood_Visions_of_Ezekiel_Light_Thrown_on_Obscure_Passages_with_Sacred_Allegories_and_Rare_Deep_Lore_">An Esoteric Reading of Biblical Symbolism - Harriet (Tuttle) Bartlett- Biblical Hermeneutics , Metaphysical Ideas of the Ancient Hebrews , Keynotes of the Bible ,Story of Creation , Noah and the Flood , Visions of Ezekiel + Light Thrown on Obscure Passages with Sacred Allegories & Rare Deep Lore -</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/WEAREMADE">Alexander T H E L I B R A R Y C A T (New Alexandria library of Texas)</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, The New Alexandria Library of Texas & Theosophic Publishing Co., Krotona, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California </p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">This extremely rare book of its kind presents a theosophical and metaphysical interpretation of biblical narratives, exploring their hidden meanings beyond conventional religious doctrines. The book integrates mystical, symbolic, and... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">This extremely rare book of its kind presents a theosophical and metaphysical interpretation of biblical narratives, exploring their hidden meanings beyond conventional religious doctrines. The book integrates mystical, symbolic, and allegorical perspectives to recontextualize key biblical stories, drawing from ancient Hebrew philosophy, reincarnation concepts, and esoteric Christianity. Bartlett seeks to unveil deeper truths encoded in the Bible, analyzing figures such as Moses, Noah, and Ezekiel through the lens of metaphysical wisdom. The work contributes to the fields of comparative religion, Christian mysticism, and biblical exegesis by challenging traditional dogmatic readings and proposing a more universal spiritual framework.<br />Chapter Summaries<br />Foreword & Introduction<br />Bartlett introduces the central premise of the book: the Bible is not merely a historical or religious text but a symbolic manuscript containing esoteric wisdom. She argues that the spiritual insights of ancient cultures have been obscured by literal interpretations and seeks to restore their original mystical meanings.<br /><br />Chapter I: Keynote of the Bible<br /><br />This chapter establishes the idea that the Bible contains hidden spiritual truths encoded in allegories. Bartlett suggests that understanding these deeper meanings requires a shift from literalism to symbolic analysis.<br /><br />Chapter II: Mysteries<br /><br />Bartlett discusses the concept of "mysteries" in religious traditions, particularly within early Christianity and Judaism. She explores how sacred teachings were historically reserved for initiates and presents biblical passages that hint at esoteric knowledge.<br /><br />Chapter III: Metaphysical Ideas of the Ancient Hebrews<br /><br />This chapter delves into the philosophical and mystical beliefs of the ancient Hebrews, emphasizing their views on divinity, creation, and the soul. Bartlett connects these ideas to later mystical traditions.<br /><br />Chapter IV: The Story of Creation<br /><br />A reinterpretation of Genesis, viewing the creation account as an allegory for spiritual evolution rather than a literal cosmology. She suggests that Adam and Eve represent dual aspects of consciousness.<br /><br />Chapter V: Significance of the Genealogy of Shem and the Work of Abraham and Lot<br /><br />Bartlett examines biblical genealogies as symbolic representations of spiritual lineages rather than mere historical records. She explores how Shem, Abraham, and Lot embody different aspects of human spiritual progression.<br /><br />Chapter VI: Noah and the Flood<br /><br />The flood story is analyzed as a metaphor for inner purification and rebirth rather than a historical deluge. Bartlett discusses the ark as a symbol of spiritual refuge.<br /><br />Chapter VII: The Significance of the Two Covenants of Abraham<br /><br />This chapter contrasts the two biblical covenants, interpreting them as representations of material versus spiritual consciousness.<br /><br />Chapter VIII: Moses<br /><br />Bartlett presents Moses as a mystical figure embodying divine wisdom and initiation. She examines his role as a lawgiver in both an exoteric and esoteric sense.<br /><br />Chapter IX: Reincarnation in the Bible<br /><br />Arguing that reincarnation is implied in biblical texts, Bartlett traces references that suggest a belief in the soul's repeated earthly experiences.<br /><br />Chapter X: Can Jesus Be Identified in Other Lives?<br /><br />This chapter explores the possibility of Christ’s soul existing in previous incarnations, linking Jesus to earlier spiritual teachers.<br /><br />Chapter XI: Are These Some Incarnations of Our Blessed Christ?<br /><br />Continuing from the previous chapter, Bartlett examines figures who may have embodied the Christ-consciousness across different epochs.<br /><br />Chapter XII: The Visions of Ezekiel<br /><br />Ezekiel’s visions are interpreted through a theosophical framework, suggesting that his symbolic imagery represents inner mystical experiences.<br /><br />Chapter XIII: Jehovah Commanded No Bloody Sacrifices<br /><br />Bartlett challenges traditional interpretations of Old Testament sacrifices, arguing that Jehovah did not demand literal blood offerings but rather symbolic spiritual surrender.<br /><br />Chapter XIV: Light Thrown on Obscure Passages<br /><br />A concluding discussion addressing cryptic or misunderstood biblical passages, offering esoteric interpretations to clarify their spiritual meanings.<br /><br />Glossary of Symbols and Obsolete Words<br /><br />A reference section explaining key esoteric symbols and archaic biblical terminology, aiding in the comprehension of the book’s interpretations.<br /><br />Significance of the Book<br /><br />An Esoteric Reading of Biblical Symbolism contributes to literature by providing an alternative framework for understanding biblical texts. It intersects with the fields of biblical hermeneutics, theosophy, Christian mysticism, and comparative religion, offering a synthesis of Western esoteric traditions and ancient Hebrew philosophy. The book challenges mainstream theological narratives and invites readers to explore a more symbolic and spiritually expansive reading of scripture.<br />TAGS<br />Biblical symbolism, esoteric Christianity, theosophy, metaphysical interpretation, ancient wisdom, spiritual allegory, sacred texts, mysticism, hidden meanings, divine revelation, reincarnation, soul evolution, Hebrew philosophy, theosophical studies, allegorical readings, esoteric traditions, secret teachings, comparative religion, spiritual hermeneutics, mystical teachings, symbolism in scripture, Christ consciousness, sacred mysteries, gnostic texts, spiritual enlightenment, divine wisdom, transcendental knowledge, ancient scriptures, biblical exegesis, inner transformation, mystical visions, sacred geometry, spiritual rebirth, metaphysical truths, mystical philosophy, higher consciousness, celestial knowledge, astral symbolism, spiritual initiation, divine archetypes, sacred numerology, cosmic wisdom, esoteric cosmology, 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divine manifestations, biblical cosmic prophecy, esoteric scriptural symbols, spiritual divine messages, esoteric hidden scriptures, biblical mystical law, celestial spiritual truths, esoteric metaphysical scripture, mystical e...</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128092239/An_Esoteric_Reading_of_Biblical_Symbolism_Harriet_Tuttle_Bartlett_Biblical_Hermeneutics_Metaphysical_Ideas_of_the_Ancient_Hebrews_Keynotes_of_the_Bible_Story_of_Creation_Noah_and_the_Flood_Visions_of_Ezekiel_Light_Thrown_on_Obscure_Passages_with_Sacred_Allegories_and_Rare_Deep_Lore_"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" 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Many philosophers and religious leaders have done their utmost to offer wisdom and guidance as it concerns their understanding of suffering and how to best transcend... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Suffering is an unavoidable and ubiquitous part of the human condition. Many philosophers and religious leaders have done their utmost to offer wisdom and guidance as it concerns their understanding of suffering and how to best transcend it. Three of the most popular religious traditions in the world today—Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam—offer three distinct perspectives regarding the role of suffering and how we can overcome its burdensome ramifications. In this paper, I analyze the role of suffering according to the teachings of Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad, and I compare and contrast their approaches to overcoming suffering.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128083371/The_Role_of_Suffering_in_the_Teachings_of_Jesus_Buddha_and_Muhammad"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121719234/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128071403/Christian_Pure_Team_Do_Atheists_Celebrate_Christmas">Christian Pure Team, Do Atheists Celebrate Christmas?</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://sydney.academia.edu/CaroleCusack">Carole Cusack</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, Christian Pure, 5 December 2024</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">Many atheists celebrate Christmas as a cultural holiday, enjoying its secular traditions like gift-giving and festive gatherings, without focusing on its religious aspects. Atheists may participate in Christmas to connect with family and... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Many atheists celebrate Christmas as a cultural holiday, enjoying its secular traditions like gift-giving and festive gatherings, without focusing on its religious aspects. Atheists may participate in Christmas to connect with family and friends, appreciate its humanist values like generosity and<br />goodwill, or for its nostalgic significance in predominantly Christian societies. While some atheists fully engage in Christmas traditions, others adapt them to fit their secular worldview, such as focusing on winter solstice themes or celebrating it as a cultural event. Christmas commercialization has made the holiday more accessible to atheists by emphasizing secular customs, though it can sometimes lead to embracing or rejecting different aspects of the celebration.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128071403/Christian_Pure_Team_Do_Atheists_Celebrate_Christmas"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121709212/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128071199/THE_WISDOM_OF_CROSS_CULTURAL_REVELATIONS_BUILDING_CONSENSUS_FOR_SOLVING_GLOBAL_RELIGIOUS_ISSUES">THE WISDOM OF CROSS-CULTURAL REVELATIONS: BUILDING CONSENSUS FOR SOLVING GLOBAL RELIGIOUS ISSUES</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/Jason%E5%BB%BA%E8%88%88%E7%A8%8B">Jason建興程</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, Religion and Politics: Is Secularization a Myth or Reality?</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">This paper explores the wisdom found in cross-cultural revelations to build a consensus on addressing global religious issues. It begins by outlining the major chal lenges faced by global religions and proposes specific strategies... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">This paper explores the wisdom found in cross-cultural revelations to build <br />a consensus on addressing global religious issues. It begins by outlining the major chal<br />lenges faced by global religions and proposes specific strategies through an examination <br />of shared truths within both Western and Eastern religious and cultural traditions. The <br />study focuses on Confucianism’s ‘Zhongyong’ (The Doctrine of the Mean,中庸) along<br />side the unique cultivation practices of Tai Ji Men, revealing core values that transcend <br />religious boundaries. It analyzes the deep connections between “nature” (性, Xing), <br />the “Tao” (道), and the “heart” (心, Xin), while also exploring the parallels between <br />spiritual cultivation and the pursuit of transcendence.<br /> This paper highlights the crucial role of “conscience” in modern life and religious <br />transcendence, examining its profound link to self-awareness through a linguistic <br />lens. By tracing the historical and cultural significance of conscience, it offers insights <br />into humanity’s path toward harmonious coexistence. Finally, it showcases the global <br />influence of Tai Ji Men, an ancient menpai (門派, school) of Qigong, martial arts, <br />and self-cultivation. Despite facing political persecution through judicial and tax mea<br />sures, Tai Ji Men has remained committed to principles of justice and righteousness. <br />Its demonstration of inner peace and remarkable external vitality serves as a valuable <br />reference for groups experiencing secularization.<br /> Additionally, this paper incorporates the wisdom and philosophy of Dr. Hong Tao-Ze, <br />the contemporary leader of Tai Ji Men, in the hope of offering benefits to all of humanity.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128071199/THE_WISDOM_OF_CROSS_CULTURAL_REVELATIONS_BUILDING_CONSENSUS_FOR_SOLVING_GLOBAL_RELIGIOUS_ISSUES"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121709031/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128062580/Review_of_Nishida_Kawabata_and_the_Japanese_Response_to_Modernity_by_Andrew_Feenberg">Review of Nishida, Kawabata, and the Japanese Response to Modernity by Andrew Feenberg</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://ryukoku.academia.edu/AhmetCanPIRTICI">A.Can PIRTICI</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, Journal of World Buddhist Cultures</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">Andrew Feenberg's book Nishida, Kawabata, and the Japanese Response to Modernity is a collection of the author's articles written on the examination of Nishidan philosophy, Zen Buddhism, and Japanese literature with the aim of tracking... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Andrew Feenberg's book Nishida, Kawabata, and the Japanese Response to Modernity is a collection of the author's articles written on the examination of Nishidan philosophy, Zen Buddhism, and Japanese literature with the aim of tracking ways for alternative modernity. Even though Feenberg is not a specialist in the field of Japanese studies, as he has duly stated, he is a remarkable philosopher of the 21st century and is known for his writings on critical theory and technology. He was also a student of one of the leading members of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse (1898Marcuse ( -1979)). Feenberg writes that the Japanese case of modernisation and Japanese thinkers' approach to modernity inspired him to revise his own works and to investigate Japan further (1). Feenberg points out that many Japanese thinkers, most notably Nishida Kitaro (1870Kitaro ( -1945)), struggled to create an alternative way of Asian modernity which would be rooted in their own culture by using Western sources (38)(39). He argues that this collective initiative has been successful for Japan to a considerable extent. Thus, he points out that today's Western society, which is undergoing a crisis of cultural self-confidence, has much to learn from the example of Japan to rejuvenate itself intellectually, just as Japan did in the past (1). The book consists of an introduction and five different articles. The introduction has been written by Yoko Arisaka, who is a Japanese philosophy expert at the University of Hildesheim in Germany, wherein she shares her personal experience by relating it with the author and the theme of the book. The first article "Technology in Global World", explores Miki Kiyoshi's and Nishida Kitaro's idiosyncratic insights into 'rationality' as an effort to find a mediation between its Western and Japanese forms. The second article "The Problem of Modernity in the Philosophy of Nishida", explores Nishida's alternative understanding of modernity established around a multicultural worldview. The third article entitled "Alternative Modernity? Playing the Japanese Game of Culture", reviews Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author, Kawabata Yasunari's (1899-❖ 2023.3 ❖</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128062580/Review_of_Nishida_Kawabata_and_the_Japanese_Response_to_Modernity_by_Andrew_Feenberg"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121701426/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128051374/Gonz%C3%A1lez_Faus_J_I_Pasado_y_futuro_de_la_evangelizaci%C3%B3n">González Faus, J. I., Pasado y futuro de la evangelización</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://uca-sv.academia.edu/FrayRobertoCarlosGutierrezVilchezOFM">Fray Roberto Carlos Gutierrez Vilchez OFM</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">Sumario 1. Introducción a los tipos de evangelización europea 2. El modelo evangelizador desde el poder 3. La crisis de ese modelo en el s. XVI 4. Atisbos de una nueva evangelización desde la alteridad 5. Preguntas de cara el futuro... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Sumario <br />1. Introducción a los tipos de evangelización europea <br />2. El modelo evangelizador desde el poder <br />3. La crisis de ese modelo en el s. XVI<br /> 4. Atisbos de una nueva evangelización desde la alteridad<br /> 5. Preguntas de cara el futuro <br />6. Conclusión</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128051374/Gonz%C3%A1lez_Faus_J_I_Pasado_y_futuro_de_la_evangelizaci%C3%B3n"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121691525/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128045168/_Subjectivit%C3%A9_moderne_et_rationalit%C3%A9_chez_Max_Weber_Klesis_n_58_2025_p_1_41">"Subjectivité moderne et rationalité chez Max Weber", Klesis, n° 58, 2025, p. 1-41</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://avh.academia.edu/PaulSlama">Paul Slama</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">Cet article présente d'abord l'interprétation par Dieter Henrich de l'épistémologie de Max Weber à partir du problème de la constitution moderne et occidentale de la subjectivité par la rationalité. On applique cette grille de lecture... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Cet article présente d'abord l'interprétation par Dieter Henrich de l'épistémologie de Max Weber à partir du problème de la constitution moderne et occidentale de la subjectivité par la rationalité. On applique cette grille de lecture à l'ensemble de l'oeuvre de Weber qui défend une conception originale de la subjectivité occidentale : elle n'a plus accès à l'absoluité du Geist et a affaire à un monde fini, où les fins ultimes sont indécidables ; cela la conduit à la pratique d'une ascèse intérieure afin de se rationaliser de fond en comble par une méthode de soi, un contrôle de soi qui s'extériorise extérieurement dans le Beruf ; enfin elle subit la pression de la communauté qui l'incite à un tel contrôle de soi. Ainsi, l'intériorité subjective, angoissée par la disparition des fins ultimes et absolues, se contrôle par la rationalisation dans l'interaction avec l'extériorité communautaire qui la contrôle aussi. On identifie ainsi, dans la pensée wébérienne du sujet moderne, une généalogie de l'intériorité.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128045168/_Subjectivit%C3%A9_moderne_et_rationalit%C3%A9_chez_Max_Weber_Klesis_n_58_2025_p_1_41"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121686032/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/128028721/Beyond_Islamophobia_A_Critical_Analysis_of_the_Religious_Ethnic_and_Racial_Othering_of_Roma_Muslims_within_the_Muslim_Community">Beyond Islamophobia: A Critical Analysis of the Religious, Ethnic, and Racial Othering of Roma Muslims within the Muslim Community</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://bg.academia.edu/IvanEjubKostic">Ivan Ejub Kostic</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, ROMA IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE Navigating Muslim Identities, Challenges and Activism</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">The religious life of Roma Muslims in Serbia represents a complex interplay of historical marginalization and persecution, contemporary discrimination, and unique cultural adaptations. Despite being one of the largest ethno-religious... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">The religious life of Roma Muslims in Serbia represents a complex interplay of historical marginalization and persecution, contemporary discrimination, and unique cultural adaptations. Despite being one of the largest ethno-religious groups in the country, their experiences remain understudied and often overshadowed by broader narratives about the Roma or the Muslim community. This study seeks to address this gap by exploring how Roma Muslims practice Islam, navigate their relationship with the official Islamic Community, and interact with other Islamic ethno-national groups, such as Bosniaks and Albanians. Drawing on six years of field research, including seven focus groups, over fifty in-depth interviews, and two seminars, this paper offers a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and dynamics faced by Roma Muslims. The first chapter provides a historical and theological context, situating Roma Muslims within Islamic civilization, focusing on the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans. The second chapter examines Islamic teachings on race and ethnicity, highlighting their potential for inclusivity and their misuse in justifying discrimination. The final chapter shifts to the contemporary Serbian context, analyzing the triple-layered discrimination- racial, ethnic, and religious- faced by Roma Muslims and their strategies for navigating these challenges.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/128028721/Beyond_Islamophobia_A_Critical_Analysis_of_the_Religious_Ethnic_and_Racial_Othering_of_Roma_Muslims_within_the_Muslim_Community"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121670987/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); 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The Globalization has both positive and negative impacts. Greed is the main... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Globalization means the establishment of relations of economy with world economy in regard to foreign investment, trade, production and financial matters. The Globalization has both positive and negative impacts. Greed is the main characteristic features of profit-driven globalizing world The question arises about the origin of this since greed originates in our mind, it is born in our mindset. Buddha was a great psychologist and he read human brain and discovered that our mind is influenced by two type of mulas. one is kusala and another one is Aukusala Mulas. Lobha dosa and moha are the three roots of evil. Their opposite are the roots of good. Lobha&quot; from Lubh to cling or attach itself may be rendered by &quot;attachment or clining it is synonymous with greed craying is also used as an equivalent of lobha. In the case of desirable object of sense, there anses as rule, clinging or attachment. In the case an undesirable object, ordinarily there is aversion. This paper had demonstrated well, the utility of Buddhist education, in the context of Globalization whereas former has a potentiality to make a balance between spirituality and materialism. The later is useful to create material prosperity, and hence no place for spiritual aspect of life thus its ignores spirituality.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127975780/UTILITY_OF_BUDDHIST_EDUCATION_IN_THE_ERA_OF_GLOBALIZATION"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121626763/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127968120/%D0%A4%D0%9E%D0%9B%D0%9A%D0%9B%D0%9E%D0%A0%D0%9D%D0%98_%D0%9D%D0%90%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%A2%D0%98%D0%92%D0%9D%D0%98_%D0%A2%D0%95%D0%9E%D0%A0%D0%98%D0%98_%D0%98_%D0%9D%D0%9E%D0%92%D0%98_%D0%9F%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%9A%D0%A2%D0%98%D0%9A%D0%98">ФОЛКЛОРНИ НАРАТИВНИ ТЕОРИИ И НОВИ ПРАКТИКИ</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://ukim-mk.academia.edu/LidijaStojanovic">Lidija Stojanovic</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">In order to find the distinctive characteristics in Slavic and WestEuropean / American folkloristics, the paper analyzes their relationship in continuity. The further explication is based on discovering the other conceptual differences,... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">In order to find the distinctive characteristics in Slavic and WestEuropean / American folkloristics, the paper analyzes their relationship in continuity. The further explication is based on discovering the other conceptual differences, in order to get a representation of the contemporary state in the international folklore narrative researches</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127968120/%D0%A4%D0%9E%D0%9B%D0%9A%D0%9B%D0%9E%D0%A0%D0%9D%D0%98_%D0%9D%D0%90%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%A2%D0%98%D0%92%D0%9D%D0%98_%D0%A2%D0%95%D0%9E%D0%A0%D0%98%D0%98_%D0%98_%D0%9D%D0%9E%D0%92%D0%98_%D0%9F%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%9A%D0%A2%D0%98%D0%9A%D0%98"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121620477/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127967463/TAITTIRIYA_Upanishad">TAITTIRIYA Upanishad</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/MicheleZappal%C3%A01">Michele Zappalà</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, Taittiriya Upanishad</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">La Taittiriya-Upaṇiṣad è così chiamata perché è una recensione (sakha) del Krishna Yajurveda al quale essa è allegata. E' la più popolare e la più nota di tutte le Upaṇiṣad in una parte del paese, dove la maggioranza dei Brahmini studia... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">La Taittiriya-Upaṇiṣad è così chiamata perché è una recensione (sakha) del Krishna Yajurveda al quale essa è allegata. E' la più popolare e la più nota di tutte le Upaṇiṣad in una parte del paese, dove la maggioranza dei Brahmini studia il Taittiriya come recensione dello Yajurveda; è anche una delle poche Upaṇiṣad che sono ancora recitate con il regolamentato accento e intonazione che la solennità del soggetto, inessa trattato, genera naturalmente. L'Upanisad è stata tradotta da parecchi studiosi tra cui il Prof. Max Muller; l'ultima traduzione, quella dei Signori Mead e JC Chattopadhyaya, della Blavatsky Loggia della Società Teosofica di Londra; è la più "piena di sentimento" di tutte, e allo stesso tempo la più economica. Sono quindi necessarie poche parole per spiegare l'oggetto della trattazione che andiamo a fare. Sankaracharya ed Suresvaracharya sono certamente scrittori della massima autorità, appartenenti a quella che è stata fimo ad oggi contrassegnata come Advaita, la scuola del Vedanta. Ogni studente del Vedanta sa che il primo ha scritto commenti sulle Upaṇiṣad classiche, sulla Bhagavad-Gita e sulla Brahma-sutra, oltre a un numero di manuali e trattati che parlano della Filosofia Vedanta;, tra le opere del secondo, che hanno recentemente visto la luce, possono essere menzionate: (1) il Brihadaraṇyaka-Upaṇiṣad-bhāṣya Vārtika , (2) il Taittiriya-Upaṇiṣad-bhāṣya-Vārtika, (3) il Manasollāsa, (4) il Praṇava-Vārtika1, (5) il Naiṣhkarmya-siddhi. I primi quattro sono professatamente commenti sui lavori di Sankaracharya, mentre l'ultimo è un indipendente manuale di condotta con alcuni fondamentali domande sul Vedānta. Poichè il soggetto è trattato nel Brihadaraṇyaka Upanishad da diversi punti di vista e in grande dettaglio, questa Upaṇiṣad, nel commentare, Sankaracharya, evidentemente cerca di presentare una esaustiva razionale esposizione della Religione Vedica, completamente spiegando ogni posizione così com'è, esaminandola da parecchi punti di vista; nei suoi commentari su altre Upaṇiṣad il contenuto è una semplice spiegazione dei testi e mostra, solo dove necessario, come essi supportano la sua dottrina advaita contro le altre dottrine che cercano il supporto di altre Upaṇiṣad. E' certamente per questo motivo che Suresvaracharya, ha intrapreso a spiegare, migliorare, amplificare e integrare gli insegnamenti di Sankaracharya il cui pensiero si adatta ad una ulteriore esposizione dell'ultimo commento alla Brihadaraṇyaka Upaṇiṣad. Questa esposizione costituisce l'opera colossale conosciuta come il Brihadaraṇyaka-Upaṇiṣad-bhāṣya Vārtika, che,,come autorit,à non può essere considerata inferiore a quella del bhāṣya stesso ed è più frequentemente citata dai successivi scrittori come punto nodale dell'Advaita, nell'esporre la sua filosofia con maggiore precisione. Bisogna riconoscere a Suresvaracharya una meravigliosa energia nell'esposizione, cosa che i lettori hanno già rilevato diventando familiari attraverso il Manasollasa, che è solo una dichiarazione condensata dei primi principi del sistema come sviluppato nel commento all'Upaṇiṣad e delle principali linee di argomentazione. Non abbastanza esaustive, tuttavia, sia quelle di Sankaracharya che quelle di Suresvaracharya nel commento alla Taittiriya-Upaṇiṣad. L'unico motivo per quest'ultimo di scrivere un vārtika sul bhāṣya delle Upanishad mi sembra sia di grande importanza per la conoscenza di questa classica Upanishad, non esclusivamente come trattato ma, tra le altre cose, per avere introdotto la teoria delle cinque Kośas (guaine) del Sé. Siccome la dottrina dei Kośas è la dottrina cardine del Vedanta, sia nel suo lato teorico che nel suo lato pratico, gli studenti del Vedanta dovrebbero essere completamente familiari con essa prima di procedere ulteriormente nei loro studi. Di conseguenza, nel tentativo di presentare al pubblico dei lettori inglesi la Dottrina Vedanta come esposto dai due grande Maestri, è opportuno innanzitutto leggere la Taittiriya-Upaṇiṣad.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127967463/TAITTIRIYA_Upanishad"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121619867/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127941569/Ceaseless_Voyaging_Spiritual_Journeying_in_A%E1%B9%AD%E1%B9%AD%C4%81r_and_Ibn_Arab%C4%AB">Ceaseless Voyaging: Spiritual Journeying in ' Aṭṭār and Ibn ' Arabī</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://oxford.academia.edu/JaneClark">Jane Clark</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, Temenos Review</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">In his book The Secrets of Voyaging (Kitāb al-Isfār 'an natā'ij al-asfār), Ibn ' Arabī tells us that there are only three types of journey: the journey to God; the journey from God; and the journey in God. 1 The first two, he says, have a... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">In his book The Secrets of Voyaging (Kitāb al-Isfār 'an natā'ij al-asfār), Ibn ' Arabī tells us that there are only three types of journey: the journey to God; the journey from God; and the journey in God. 1 The first two, he says, have a goal where the traveller arrives and dismounts from their journey, while the journey in God, which he calls a journey of wandering and bewilderment, has no goal. In what follows, I will take this schema as my basis, and will look at these three journeys as they are envisaged by two great medieval figures; the Persian poet Farīḍ al-dīn ' Aṭṭār (d. 1220) and the Arab master and writer Muḥyiddīn Ibn ' Arabī (d. 1240).</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127941569/Ceaseless_Voyaging_Spiritual_Journeying_in_A%E1%B9%AD%E1%B9%AD%C4%81r_and_Ibn_Arab%C4%AB"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121598808/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127937688/Review_Article_the_Norton_anthology_of_world_religions">Review Article: the Norton anthology of world religions</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://ucriverside.academia.edu/IvanStrenski">Ivan Strenski</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">Six world religions. Seven scholars, at the top of their games --Hinduism (Wendy Doniger), Buddhism (Donald S. Lopez, Jr.), Daoism (James Robson), Judaism (David Biale), Christianity (Lawrence S. Cunningham), and Islam (Jane Dammen... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Six world religions. Seven scholars, at the top of their games --Hinduism (Wendy Doniger), Buddhism (Donald S. Lopez, Jr.), Daoism (James Robson), Judaism (David Biale), Christianity (Lawrence S. Cunningham), and Islam (Jane Dammen McAuliffe). Together with general editor, Pulitzer Prize winner, Jack Miles, they have collaborated in amassing the 4,329 page, two volume Norton Anthology of World Religions (hereafter NAWR). Whew! Luckily, for our sway-backed students, weighed down by their bulging backpacks, W. W. Norton and Company have promised paperbacks for each individual religion by winter 2016. Some other reviewers have queried the need and rationale for what they see as yet another compendium of the great religious texts. We can answer this "why?" question partly by considering an answer to the "what?" question. What's in the NAWR? Compared to typical anthologies from the past, this collection really exploits the tremendous progress made by religious studies scholarship over the course of the past generation. While this anthology was not meant to be a testament to the achievements of the generation of scholars come of age since the 1970's, it is. Not your father's coffee table standard "canon" of the world's religions, NAWR is, instead, a virtual whirling Google Earth, spotting the many destinations religious folk worldwide have been visiting in their reading and writing across human history. In a word, there's plenty new here, and good reasons for it. (What's not here are religions without writing or who have not chosen or been able to write, religions without "literatures," in the strict sense, without written texts.) The "what" that is here is then easily enough glossed: thousands of chronologically arranged readings, many maps and handy timelines; all sorts of 'literatures,' ranging from the canonic scriptures, to extra-canonical</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127937688/Review_Article_the_Norton_anthology_of_world_religions"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121595437/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127929060/The_Hidden_Polemic_Martin_Bubers_Comparative_Analysis_of_Hasidism_and_Zen_Buddhism">The Hidden Polemic: Martin Buber's Comparative Analysis of Hasidism and Zen Buddhism</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://biu.academia.edu/ShlomyMualem">Shlomy Mualem</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">This article examines Martin Buber's comparative analysis of Hasidism and Zen Buddhism, focusing particularly on his interpretation of their respective approaches to concrete reality and religious experience. Through a close reading of... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">This article examines Martin Buber's comparative analysis of Hasidism and Zen Buddhism, focusing particularly on his interpretation of their respective approaches to concrete reality and religious experience. Through a close reading of Buber's exegesis of the Hasidic tale of "the treasure under the <br />bridge" and his theoretical discourse in "The Place of Hasidism in the History of Religion," I argue that Buber's comparative framework reveals an implicit yet profound polemic against Zen Buddhism. While acknowledging certain affinities between these traditions—particularly their emphasis on the sanctification of everyday life and valuation of concrete reality—Buber ultimately constructs a dichotomy that establishes Hasidism's superiority. This study demonstrates that Buber's interpretation <br />of Zen Buddhism's fundamental principles misrepresents their original meaning within their authentic religious and philosophical context, particularly regarding Zen's non-dualistic approach to phenomenological reality. By critically analyzing Buber's comparative methodology, this article contributes to a more nuanced understanding of both traditions and highlights the hermeneutical challenges inherent in comparative religious studies.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127929060/The_Hidden_Polemic_Martin_Bubers_Comparative_Analysis_of_Hasidism_and_Zen_Buddhism"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121588076/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127897893/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%82_%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%90%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%B3%D0%B0_2024_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%80_%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%98%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%8F_4_2024_c_54_65_Sa_gnicit_Trisa_hasra_Atira_tra_Somaya_ga_Jayantipur_West_Bengal_">Сагничит Трисахасра Атиратра Сомаяга 2024 (Джаянтипур, Западная Бенгалия). Индуизм сегодня. № 4. 2024, c. 54–65 [Sāgnicit Trisāhasra Atirātra Somayāga (Jayantipur, West Bengal)]</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://moscowstate.academia.edu/NataliaKorneeva">Natalia Korneeva</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">Сагничит Трисахасра Атиратра — сложнейший двенадцатидневный шраута-ритуал во время которого после четырех дней предварительных церемоний, в течение следующих дней из 3000 кирпичей сооружается Агни-алтарь в форме птицы на котором... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Сагничит Трисахасра Атиратра — сложнейший двенадцатидневный шраута-ритуал во время которого после четырех дней предварительных церемоний, в течение следующих дней из 3000 кирпичей сооружается Агни-алтарь в форме птицы на котором совершаются жертвоприношения сомы. К ритуалу примыкает обряд Саутрамани (aṅgasautrāmani-yāga). Предварительные церемонии, сооружение из обожженных кирпичей алтаря и жертвоприношения сомы включают многочисленные обряды с рецитацией и пением ведийских мантр.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127897893/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%82_%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%90%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%B3%D0%B0_2024_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%80_%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%98%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%8F_4_2024_c_54_65_Sa_gnicit_Trisa_hasra_Atira_tra_Somaya_ga_Jayantipur_West_Bengal_"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121562135/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127885636/Modern_Art_as_Symbolic_Representation_A_Critical_Analysis_of_Modernism_in_Mircea_Eliades_Works">Modern Art as Symbolic Representation A Critical Analysis of Modernism in Mircea Eliade`s Works</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://csde.academia.edu/GabrielBadea">Gabriel Badea</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, CrossCurrents, Volume 74, Number 2, June 2024, pp. 190-209</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">The present study is based on Eliade’s concept that modern man engages in the encounter with the sacred, through the act of artistic creation. Furthermore, I observed the tremendous significance he places on religious symbolism and the... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">The present study is based on Eliade’s concept that modern man engages in the encounter with the sacred, through the act of artistic creation. Furthermore, I observed the tremendous significance he places on religious symbolism and the metaphysical understanding of art (both attributes of the human typology of homo religiosus). In this study, I assessed whether Eliade’s hermeneutics of the symbol may offer a suitable and secure approach to interpreting literary and artistic modernism. Eliade himself pioneered the way, having faith in the enduring influence of symbols. However, his trajectory has been left uncertain by subsequent advancements such as the dominance of allegory over symbols in the postmodern era, the entropy of symbols, and the emergence of theoretical thought that replaces mythical thought, particularly in the realms of symbolism and mythology. Philosophers and anthropologists of the 20th century, such as Cassirer, Gadamer, and Lévi-Strauss, reached a consensus on the presence of symbolic forms, including myth, religion, art, and language. The symbol, from this standpoint, serves as a tool for understanding the reality we inhabit. The significant paradox is in the fact that contemporary civilizations are currently experiencing a deep crisis of symbolism, which is unparalleled in their historical development. Eliade posits that by employing non-rational modes of knowing such as myth, symbol, and creative production, it is possible to surmount the deficiencies inherent in the framework of modern man. Whether his endeavor to explore the profound aspects of reality, to perceive man as a microcosm which should be governed by the principles of harmony, will be reinforced or weakened by future historical events is yet to be determined.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127885636/Modern_Art_as_Symbolic_Representation_A_Critical_Analysis_of_Modernism_in_Mircea_Eliades_Works"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121551938/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5Nyw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127883442/Second_response_to_the_question_of_The_Simple_Expansive_Reality_bas%C4%AB%E1%B9%AD_al_%E1%B8%A5aq%C4%ABqa_">Second response to the question of The Simple Expansive Reality (basīṭ al ḥaqīqa)</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/NimaAzal">N. Wahid Azal</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, Second response to the question of The Simple-Expansive Reality (basīṭ al-ḥaqīqa)</p></div><div class="summary">Second response to the question of The Simple-Expansive Reality (basīṭ al-ḥaqīqa)</div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127883442/Second_response_to_the_question_of_The_Simple_Expansive_Reality_bas%C4%AB%E1%B9%AD_al_%E1%B8%A5aq%C4%ABqa_"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121550176/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5OCw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127868110/The_materials_of_mythology_the_limits_of_Schellings_Philosophy_of_Mythology">The materials of mythology: the limits of Schelling's Philosophy of Mythology</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://maringa.academia.edu/WagnerFelix">Wagner Felix</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, Acta Scientiarum: Human and Social Sciences</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">Schelling postulates the origin of mythology as relative monotheism, preceding the polytheistic system of gods presumably present in all mythologies. A monotheism relative to the polytheism that succeeds it is understood as an inaugural... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Schelling postulates the origin of mythology as relative monotheism, preceding the polytheistic system of gods presumably present in all mythologies. A monotheism relative to the polytheism that succeeds it is understood as an inaugural moment in the formation of the consciousness of divinity, and the passage to polytheism is seen as a necessary development to overcome a relative monotheism towards absolute monotheism in the history of peoples. We would like to argue, however, that the original intuition about the communality of all mythologies is dependent on a specific interpretation and selection of the material sources of the mythologies as Schelling understood them, which, the author claims, should be taken as an already finalised work. This material delimitation is linked to Schelling's position not only on what authentically constitutes a 'system of the gods', but also on which humans constitute a people, to which a mythology belongs. However, while broadening the concept of mythology seems to be a peaceful solution to the problem of the limitations of its sources, the same cannot be said of the original intuition at the basis of the project. If this intuition is the affirmation of the consciousness of divinity as the unformed memory of a previous harmonious state, before differentiation into a polytheistic system, we ask whether this relative monotheism can be understood as a universal principle, or whether different mythological traditions would be irreducible to each other. We point to the shamanistic accounts of Amazonian cosmologies as a counterpoint to examine the role of the consciousness of divinity in the unfolding of mythology and the historical consciousness of peoples. We propose that the anthropological concept of perspectivism, by which many of these cosmologies are described, will allow us to ask the question about the possibility of a different understanding of the formation of consciousness.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127868110/The_materials_of_mythology_the_limits_of_Schellings_Philosophy_of_Mythology"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121537462/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5OCw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127850818/Proof_of_Paranormal_Beings_Through_Mirrored_Images_Religious_Evidence_and_Comparison_with_Ancient_Sy_Author">Proof of Paranormal Beings Through Mirrored Images, Religious Evidence, and Comparison with Ancient Sy Author</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/HasanClubhouse">Hasan Faghih</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">This research examines the presence of paranormal beings through the method of mirrored image analysis a based on Quranic teachings, other religious texts, and comparisons with historical symbols. Using this metho significant global... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">This research examines the presence of paranormal beings through the method of mirrored image analysis a based on Quranic teachings, other religious texts, and comparisons with historical symbols. Using this metho significant global events and natural elements have been analyzed, revealing unidentified shapes that may s existence of jinn, qareen, and other unseen beings.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127850818/Proof_of_Paranormal_Beings_Through_Mirrored_Images_Religious_Evidence_and_Comparison_with_Ancient_Sy_Author"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121522360/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5OCw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127827133/Hinduism_for_Atheists">Hinduism for Atheists</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/SwamiVedatitananda">Swami Vedatitananda</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025</p></div><div class="summary">This article is a study of five letters that Swami Vivekananda wrote to Govinda Sahay from 1891 to 1894. In the course of this study, we shall try to understand what Hinduism offers to atheists.</div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127827133/Hinduism_for_Atheists"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121502647/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5OCw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127827096/Swami_Vivekanandas_greatest_temptation">Swami Vivekananda's greatest temptation</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/SwamiVedatitananda">Swami Vedatitananda</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025</p></div><div class="summary">Swami Vivekananda once said that organization was his greatest temptation. This article explores why that could be so.</div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127827096/Swami_Vivekanandas_greatest_temptation"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121502594/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5OCw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127813809/HUMAN_SUFFERING_AND_THE_PROBLEM_OF_EVIL_ANALYSING_THE_JUSTICE_OF_GOD_THROUGH_THE_LENS_OF_THE_BOOK_OF_JOB">HUMAN SUFFERING AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL: ANALYSING THE JUSTICE OF GOD THROUGH THE LENS OF THE BOOK OF JOB</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://trinitycollegeandseminary.academia.edu/KishanReang">Kishan Reang</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, Kishan Joy Reang </p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">Human suffering and the problem of evil have significant challenges to the existence and justice of God. This paper will analyze the justice of God through the lens of the Book of Job, exploring the philosophical understanding of divine... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Human suffering and the problem of evil have significant challenges to the existence and justice of God. This paper will analyze the justice of God through the lens of the Book of Job, exploring the philosophical understanding of divine justice and the coherence of the book's response to human suffering. This paper will argue that God's sovereignty and power are not incompatible with human suffering rather it's a mystery and complexity of God's justice, highlighting the limitations of human understanding and that Job's suffering is not the result of sin, but rather a test of his faith and trust in God. The researcher concludes that the Book of Job offers a complex understanding of God's justice in the face of human suffering. The book does not provide a straightforward answer to the problem of evil; rather, it emphasizes the importance of faith, trust, and mystery in understanding God's justice.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127813809/HUMAN_SUFFERING_AND_THE_PROBLEM_OF_EVIL_ANALYSING_THE_JUSTICE_OF_GOD_THROUGH_THE_LENS_OF_THE_BOOK_OF_JOB"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121491919/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5OCw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127812906/The_Jh%C4%81nas_in_the_Buddhist_Path_to_Liberation_The_Therav%C4%81da_Perspective">The Jhānas in the Buddhist Path to Liberation: The Theravāda Perspective</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://bristol.academia.edu/RupertGethin">Rupert Gethin</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, In: Meditación y contemplación: Caminos hacia la paz (Budismo Theravada y mística teresiana): Meditation and contemplation: Pathways to peace (Theravada Buddhism and Teresian Mysticism), ed. by F. 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Sancho Fermín (Burgos: Grupo Editorial Fonte, 2019), pp. 177–206</p></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127812906/The_Jh%C4%81nas_in_the_Buddhist_Path_to_Liberation_The_Therav%C4%81da_Perspective"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121491113/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5OCw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127805816/Norse_Mythology_gods_and_goddesses_An_Introduction">Norse Mythology “gods and goddesses” An Introduction</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/ClaireCollamar">Claire Collamar</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, Literature Study</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">This book provides an introductory exploration of Norse mythology, focusing on its gods, goddesses, and the major myths that shaped ancient Scandinavian and Germanic cultures. It delves into the roles of prominent deities such as Odin,... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">This book provides an introductory exploration of Norse mythology, focusing on its gods, goddesses, and the major myths that shaped ancient Scandinavian and Germanic cultures. It delves into the roles of prominent deities such as Odin, Thor, Freyja, and Loki, as well as the significance of their myths in explaining natural phenomena, human conditions, and societal values. The book also examines how Norse mythology influenced ancient religious practices and its ongoing relevance in modern literature, art, and popular culture. By analyzing key stories such as Odin's quest for wisdom and the final battle of Ragnarök, the work highlights the cyclical nature of life and the interplay between order and chaos. Furthermore, the study emphasizes how Norse myths continue to resonate today, shaping contemporary creative expressions and cultural identity, particularly in Scandinavian regions. Through this synthesis, the book contributes to a deeper understanding of Norse mythology's impact across time.</div></div><div class="button-container"><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-view" href="https://www.academia.edu/127805816/Norse_Mythology_gods_and_goddesses_An_Introduction"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">description</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View Paper</span></a><a class="ds2-5-text-link no-padding" data-click-track="topics--work-card-download" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/121485177/download_file?st=MTc0MzA0Mjk5OCw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=topics-page-work-card" rel="nofollow"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">arrow_downward</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download</span></a></div></div><script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { const moreLinks = document.querySelectorAll('.more'); moreLinks.forEach(link => { const summary = link.closest('.summary'); const summarized = summary.querySelector('.summarized'); const complete = summary.querySelector('.complete'); // Only show more link if we have both summarized and complete content if (!summarized || !complete) { link.style.display = 'none'; return; } link.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); summarized.classList.add('hidden'); complete.classList.remove('hidden'); // Hide the more link since we don't want to toggle back link.style.display = 'none'; }); }); }); // To allow for closing the author dropdown when clicking outside of it document.addEventListener('click', (event) => { const dropdowns = document.querySelectorAll('details.authors-dropdown'); dropdowns.forEach(dropdown => { if (!dropdown.contains(event.target) && dropdown.hasAttribute('open')) { dropdown.removeAttribute('open'); } }); });</script></div><div class="div"><div class="work-card-container"><div class="title"><a attrs="data-click-track topics--work-card-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/127803869/Th%C3%A9orie_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_de_la_r%C3%A9forme_religieuse">Théorie générale de la réforme religieuse</a></div><div class="authors">by <a href="https://cnas.academia.edu/ProfesseurHaddad">Mohamed Haddad</a></div><div class="work-metadata"><p class="ds-work-card--detail ds2-5-body-sm">2025, Théorie générale de la réforme religieuse</p></div><div class="summary"><div class="summarized">Théorie générale de la réforme religieuse De nos jours, les appels à la «réforme religieuse» reviennent avec insistance. Cela exprime le souhait de voir les religions s'adapter à la condition de l'homme moderne, et de voir s'estomper les... <a class="more u-tcGrayDark u-linkUnstyled" href="#">more</a></div><div class="complete hidden">Théorie générale de la réforme religieuse De nos jours, les appels à la «réforme religieuse» reviennent avec insistance. Cela exprime le souhait de voir les religions s'adapter à la condition de l'homme moderne, et de voir s'estomper les conflits religieux. Cependant, l'emploi de cette expression ne laisse pas de susciter beaucoup de malentendus. En effet, que signifie réformer une religion? Doit-on réformer les religions ou les traditions religieuses? L'islam est-il la seule religion appelée aujourd'hui à se réformer? Y aurait-il des religions réformables et d'autres irréformables? La laïcité rend-elle caduque l'idée d'une réforme religieuse? Malheureusement, les sciences humaines et sociales contemporaines offrent peu de matériaux pour cette réflexion. La notion de réforme religieuse ne bénéficie pas de définitions raisonnées dans ces sciences et elle est absente de pratiquement tous les dictionnaires spécialisés. La théorie générale de la réforme religieuse (TGRR) que nous esquissons ici entend combler cette lacune, en faisant de ce terme une notion raisonnée, inclusive, universalisable et susceptible d'être classée parmi les notions essentielles de la science sociale des religions, comme celles de culte, rite, croyance, mythe, etc. Elle aspire à se substituer autant aux représentations fidéistes léguées par les traditions religieuses qu'aux représentations positivistes héritées des maîtres à penser du xixe siècle. Elle se démarque aussi des théories abracadabrantesques élaborées autour des notions du réenchantement, de la sortie de la religion et des exceptions religieuses. 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