Religion without fear: Plutarch on superstition and Early Christian Literature

Morality and ethics without religion

The editorial in question repeatedly suggests that morals are derived from religious principles. This is a common misconception. Indeed, amoral and unethical behavior is often supported by religion; historical and contemporary examples are support for slavery and oppression of women and homosexuals. Moreover, numerous secular, nonreligious individuals and organizations (such as Doctors Without ...

Enacting a virtual 'ekklesia': online Christian fundamentalism as vernacular religion

Based on the interactive features of websites, researchers have distinguished between ‘religion online’ and ‘online religion’. Approaching online religious expression as ‘vernacular religion’ can transcend the distinction by focussing on the lived experience of believers. In this study, qualitative interviews and close textual analysis are deployed to locate four traits that define the ‘vernacu...

Enchanted Europe Superstition , Reason , and Religion , 1250 – 1750 Euan Cameron 1

Hipparchus, Plutarch, Schröder and Hough

1. Hipparchus and Plutarch. Plutarch was a Greek biographer and philosopher from Chaeronea, who was born before a.d. 50 and died after a.d. 120. He is best known for his Parallel Lives, which inspired such Renaissance writers as Montaigne, Shakespeare, Dryden, and Rousseau. His many other works have been gathered together under the name Moralia, \a collection of comparatively short treatises an...

The opening to Christian theosophy in Iranian Literature

In this article the first christian written literary theosophical works will be synoptically brought forward. To this end the writer first runs over the historical eras of Iranian languages. Then Sogdian language from the Eastern Middle Iranian languages category will be introduced as the first language in which christian works have been written. Lastly Nestorianism the prevailing school of chr...