Search results for "Religious"

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.

Motivation and personality traits for choosing religious tourism. A research on the case of Medjugorje

2013

Religion has long been a primary motivation for journeys and it is considered the oldest non-economic reason for travelling. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reasons tourists choose to travel to sacred sites, with the specific aim of discovering relationships between personality traits and motivations for religious travel. Participating in the research were 679 Italian travellers to Medjugorje sanctuary, who completed the travel motivation scale and big five questionnaire. The results show that motivation is focused prevalently on the need for discovery in men and socialisation in women. Multiple regression analyses demonstrated that personality traits are predictive of motiv…

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.

Sanzione religiosa, procedimenti giuridici e disincanto in Tucidide. Il dramma di Platea

2016

Il racconto tucidideo sul dramma di Platea, oltre ad essere di eccezionale intensità, è anche e soprattutto una riflessione sottile sui confini incerti e precari tra politica e morale, e sull’ambiguità e i rischi delle parole e del discorso pubblico: fuori dal logos, fuori dalla parola, che è sempre parola pubblica, non c’è politica, e dove non c’è politica ogni confine si dissolve e tutto diviene possibile. In questo terreno, su cui lo storico ateniese ci riporta continuamente, le sanzioni religiose e i procedimenti giudiziari invocati di volta in volta dai diversi protagonisti della narrazione sono di fatto sottoposti ad una riflessione corrosiva che ne smaschera la natura dissimulatrice.…

Twilight of the elites: America after meritocracy

2013

Twilight of the elites: America after meritocracy, by Christopher Hayes, New York, Crown/Random House, 2012, 292 pp., Kindle Edition $12.99, eISBN 978-0-307-72047-4 A good (counter)-metaphor for th...

Is Gayness a Test from Allah? Typologies in Muslim Stances on Homosexuality

2014

The article presents a spectrum of views within Muslim discourse on questions such as: “Is non-hetero predilection congenital and as such created by God?,” “Are non-hetero feelings/actions sinful as such?,” “Should the authorities in Muslim states punish homosexual acts?,” “Should lesbian and gay Muslims marry partners of the opposite gender?” The stances presented are based on texts by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Heba Gamal Kotb, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Amreen Jamal and Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle. Stances presented by various Muslim internet sites are also considered. The review is grouped into a four-way typology: strongly traditional; moderately traditional; moderately progressive; and strongly progr…

Consumer behavior in a religious event experience: an empirical assessment of value dimensionality among volunteers

2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present volunteering in tourism events as a sort of spontaneous community participation that has far‐reaching consequences for destination management. It chooses the concept of value to explore volunteering experience in an international religious mega‐event, using Holbrook's value typology (efficiency, social value, play, spirituality).Design/methodology/approachThe authors undertake this objective by means of testing psychometric properties of the four value scales, as well as providing a causal model of relationships among value dimensions and overall perceived value, satisfaction and loyalty or commitment to volunteering in a special event tested w…

Article 22 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union on cultural, religious, and linguistic diversity

2022

In this publication, I comment you on article 22 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union on cultural, religious, and linguistic diversity

The Career of Moses Shapira, Bookseller and Antiquarian

2022

More Dubious Dead Sea Scrolls

2021

Abstract In the course of the last eighteen years more than 75 new “Dead Sea Scrolls” fragments have surfaced on the antiquities market. These are commonly referred to as post-2002 Dead Sea Scrolls-like fragments. A growing number of scholars regard a substantial part of them as forgeries. In this article, we will discuss four more dubious fragments, but this time from the 20th Century—or at least from pre-2002. Two of the fragments have been known since the late nineties and are published in the DJD series. One was published in Revue de Qumran (2003), and one in Gleanings from the Caves (2016). All four are today accepted as part of the Dead Sea Scrolls dataset even though they are unprove…