Tradition Values of “Posintuwu” Tradition in Uniting Local Communities in Poso Regency, Indonesia

Tradition in Nordic architecture

Paradoxically, in the globalized world, contemporary architecture is represented as an illustration of the contemporary rupture between the rigor of structural geometry and the turgid corpulence of imagination. Moreover in times of cultural globalization local specificities dissolve. Nevertheless, there are trends, cultural traits, and influences of critical or intellectual tradition that persist.

Beyond Tradition

Science and values. Patterns of tradition and change

interest, based as it is on the writings of Quintus Serenus, Pseudo-Apuleius and Sextus Placitus. But there are several unusual items rarely encountered elsewhere, such as the fascinating ceremonies for the cure of falling-sickness, for counteracting spells cast on people by means of wax images, and for preventing mice from destroying the grain harvest. On the whole the editor has treated the t...

Survey of Islamic International Relations in Prophetic Tradition

Islam as a universal religion has a special approach for establishment of international relations. Different dimensions of this approach can be found in the accounts of the Prophet’s (s) interactions with other nations. Theoretical foundations of Islamic international relations, inspired by Qur’anic principles, have consolidated the mechanism of these relations in practice. Meantime, a survey o...

Azazel in Early Jewish Tradition

The term" Azazel," which appears four times in the prescriptions for the Day of Atonement (Lev 16:8, 10, 26), has elicited much debate. Although many scholars have identified Azazel with a demonic figure to whom the sin-laden scapegoat was dispatched, the term remains undefined in the biblical text. This article will attempt to demonstrate that two noncanonical Jewish works, 1 Enoch and the Apo...