Search results for "Religions"
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Civil Religion or Nationalism? The National Day Celebrations in Norway
2021
The Norwegian National Day (17 May, also referred to as Constitution Day) stands out as one of the most popular National Day celebrations in Europe. According to surveys, around seven out of every 10 Norwegians take part in a public celebration during this day. This means that the National Day potentially has an impact on the way people reflect upon national identity and its relationship to the Lutheran heritage. In this paper, I will focus on the role religion plays in the Norwegian National Day rituals. Researchers have described these rituals as both containing a significant religious element and being rather secularized. In this article, I discuss the extent to which the theoretical con…
What do religion scholars really want? Scholarly values in the scientific study of religion
2020
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Studying close entity encounters of the psychedelic kind: Insights from the cognitive evolutionary science of religion
2022
This article calls for a more robust mutual engagement between the science of psychedelic experiences (SPE) and the cognitive evolutionary science of religion (CESR). Greater collaboration between researchers in these disciplines could open up opportunities for producing new knowledge not only about the human brain and the therapeutic effects of psychedelics, but also about the evolution of our species and our prospects for creatively enjoying our minds and peacefully living in pluralistic groups in a rapidly changing global environment. However, there are at least three major challenges facing the recently renewed field of SPE: 1) articulating adequate theoretical grounding for its researc…
Ceļš: Teoloģisks un kultūrvēsturisks žurnāls. Nr.1(45)
1994
Ceļš: Latvijas Universitātes teoloģisks un kultūrvēsturisks žurnāls. Nr.2 (47)
1995
Saturs: Redakcijas lapa...5 Teoloģija. Egils Grīslis Dažas pārdomas par ticību...6 Kristietība un filosofija. Agita Lūse Rūdolfs Oto un reliģijfenomenoloģijas aizsākumi...14 Nikandrs Gills Rūdolfs Oto un Latvija...25 Rūdolfs Oto Svētais...46 Valters Šūbarts Reliģija un erots. Atpestīšanas motīvs...73 Elizabete Taivāne Eross Austrumu un Rietumu mistikā...92 Publikācijas. Arnis Redovičs Priekšvārds Grēgorija no Nazianzas Theoloģisko runu fragmentu tulkojumam...130 Grēgorijs no Nazianzas Pirmā theoloģiskā runa. Eunomiāņiem...146 Otrā teoloģiskā runa. Par theoloģiju...165 Kristietība un reliģijas. Andrejs Zubovs Mezopotāmijas soterioloģija...184 Teoloģijas terminoloģija. Aina Blinkena Filozofij…
Narrazioni e rappresentazioni del sacro femminile. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi in memoria di Giuseppe Martorana
2021
Con Il riso di Demetra (1985), Giuseppe Martorana, professore ordinario di Storia delle Religioni presso l’Università degli studi di Palermo, esplorava le forme di religiosità al femminile in Sicilia, individuando tracce di continuità e persistenza che dai culti locali anellenici conducevano fino a forme di devozione cristiana. I contributi raccolti in questo volume intendono rendere omaggio alla sua memoria e riprendere criticamente i temi delle sue ricerche, indagando le narrazioni e le modalità di rappresentazione del sacro e del divino che coinvolgono l’elemento femminile, lungo un arco cronologico che dall’età del bronzo giunge all’età contemporanea e attraversa uno spazio geografico c…
L'anima delle fedi. Corpi, riti e sacralità nell'opera di Monika Bulaj
2018
In this article the author investigates the work of the european Photographer-storyteller Monika Bulaj, in particular it is done from a visual perspective which considers the complex interplay between photography and literary ékphrasis.
Les jeux vidéo comme instruments de techno-transe
2016
International audience; This article aims to reopen the genealogy of video games, studying the similarities they share with what the author calls ‘techno-trance devices’. These devices, which are contemporary to the first video games in the early 1960s, rely on the creative hijacking of laboratory instruments. They share numerous technical and media properties with video games. Moreover, there are some records of these techno-trance devices being used during religious practices at the time, which might lead to speculation of a latent trance influence in video games as apparatuses. These shared properties between video games and these devices, derived from counterculture, are thus studied th…
Teacher-Student Relations in Two Tibetan Buddhist Groups in Helsinki
2017
AbstractBased on sixteen interviews with members of two Tibetan Buddhist groups in Helsinki, Finland, this article investigates how the role of the guru, power imbalance and power abuse are perceived by the students. This qualitative study aims at understanding what shape the reverence to the Vajrayana teacher takes in the egalitarian environment of a European country, where Buddhism is a relatively new phenomenon. The interviews show that while teachers are not losing importance, ways of choosing and paying respect to them changes. They also reveal confusion in defining abuse, and emphasis on personal agency and teachers’ accountability for avoiding it.
The Occult Underground of Late Soviet Russia
2013
Der Aufsatz bietet einen Überblick über verschiedene Strömungen des okkulten Untergrunds im spätsowjetischen Russland, insbes. im Milieu der literarischen Bohème, in und außerhalb von wissenschaftlichen Institutionen und in der volkstümlichen bzw. alternativen Gesundheit. Einflüsse östlicher Philosophie und Religion werden diskutiert, Probleme der Terminologie, Einflüsse und Wechselbeziehungen zum westlichen New Age.