Blended Worship : Sebuah Alternatif Model Ibadah Kekinian

Hero worship

This month, as the surest route to public embarassment, I decided to write about scientific heroes. Today’s world is full of talk of mentoring. Graduate students are told to find supervisors who will intellectually nourish them, emotionally support them, and teach them networking and grantspersonship. As I tap away, I can almost hear Uncle Syd muttering that the world is going to the dogs. In h...

The grounds of worship

Although worship has a pivotal place in religious thought and practice, philosophers of religion have had remarkably little to say about it. In this paper we examine some of the many questions surrounding the notion of worship, focusing on the claim that human beings have obligations to worship God. We explore a number of attempts to ground our supposed duty to worship God, and argue that each ...

Celebrity worship, addiction and criminality

Two studies assessed the relationship between celebrity worship and (i) addiction (n 1359) and (ii) criminality (n 2158). Overall Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS) scores correlated positively with Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised (EPQ-R) Addiction and Criminality sub-scale scores. In further support of the absorption addiction model of celebrity worship (McCutcheon, Lange, & Houran, 2002...

Ere Ibeji: Yoruba Twin Worship

Designing and Validation of the Epistemological Model in Blended Learning

Purpose: Epistemology as one of the philosophical foundations in the field of education can play an important role in blended learning, ie using more than one method, strategy and technique for learning. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of designing and validation the epistemological model in blended learning Methodology: The present study was applied from type of qualit...