as we know, at the course of history of thought the definition of religion has been always a significant dilemma and each thinker or philosopher of religion had inclination to present an accurate definition of religion. in spite of these attempts, there has been no consentaneous definition of religion up to now. difficulty of the definition of religion has several reasons that in this article s...

This paper asks how intercultural theology can inspire a critical and constructive reflection on the potential of non-confessional religious education (RE). Taking Norwegian RE subject as starting point, draws attention to tendency present religions, worldviews, denominations single entities with distinct characteristics. As emphasized by Jackson, Jones Meyer, others, systemic-oriented approach...

In ‘secular’ Western societies, religious topics permeate media texts of books, films, series and games and such texts even inform several religious-spiritual movements. Critically expanding on theories about ‘fiction-based religion’, ‘invented religion’ or ‘hyper-real religion’, this article studies if, how and why players of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of...

Largely because of an attempt at conciseness, but also be cause of the compactness of KeyKOS and the mutual re liance of the abstractions from which it is developed, certain words and phrases appear, of necessity, earlier in this publi cation than the principle discussions explaining them. The information in this publication is ordered with the intent that a reader will need to assume as lit...

The Lakota (Sioux) sacred clowns (heyoka) of traditional religious practice offer a glimpse of the clown phenomenon found in many of the world's indigenous traditions. By illustrating the unified Lakota and Western conceptions of humor, the logic of how particular entities of the natural environment are understood as relatives according to Lakota thought is brought to light in hopes of introduc...

Religion is a social phenomenon. Society and, therefore, religion will continue to exist as long as human beings exist. This article explores this syllogism, by analysing two 19th-century social theories on the future of religion. Weber was not positive as to the future of religion and foresaw that religion would die out at the hands of rationality and modernisation. Durkheim predicted that rel...

A novel Σ∆ modulator is presented with lower power consumption and higher Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) than the conventional modulator for a given order. The novel modulator is applied in analog-to-digital converters of RF receivers. The same modulator architecture is used for GSM and WCDMA receivers differing only the in Oversampling Ratio (OSR). The modulator was designed using switched capaci...

In this paper, we build a novel well-proved model for describing the combined error due to clock jitter and quantization noise on the performance of bandpass sigma delta (Σ∆) analog to digital converters (ADCs). The clock jitter is modeled as a timing variation of the sampling process which follows the characteristic of the Wiener process. Computer simulations as well as theoretical calculation...

This article presents an overview of both the processes and the results of an international, interdisciplinary, and interreligious feminist study of "good sex" that resulted in a volume by the same name. We argue that religion (including its secular equivalent, i.e., global capitalism) remains a powerfully influential cultural force that shapes people's lives, in general, and sanctifies their b...