Ibn Khaldun and Ernest Gellner have both developed comprehensive yet very different theories of social cohesion. Whereas traces the development intense group solidarity to ascetic lifestyles nomadic warriors, for cohesion is a product material conditions. In contrast Khaldun?s theory, where all ties are generated through similar processes, in Gellner?s model patterns collective change time, tha...

Both Nietzsche, as the nineteenth century wound down, and Foucault in the last third of the twentieth century, responded to, and sought a way out of, a profound cultural crisis. Nietzsche first signaled the eruption of that crisis with his proclamation of the death of God,1 and eighty years later Foucault confronted the deepening impact of that same crisis. For Nietzsche, the death of God, in t...

BACKGROUND Between roughly 500 BCE and 300 BCE, three distinct regions, the Yangtze and Yellow River Valleys, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ganges Valley, saw the emergence of highly similar religious traditions with an unprecedented emphasis on self-discipline and asceticism and with "otherworldly," often moralizing, doctrines, including Buddhism, Jainism, Brahmanism, Daoism, Second Templ...

Abstract The following article seeks to establish caste groups in India as Weberian status groups. Dumont and Weber’s understanding of caste, while partially correct this area, sought uniquely Indian, through their orientalist leanings. Brahmin was seen by most orientalists being an exclusive group ascetic priests who headed Hindu society. By attempting demonstrate the political economic factor...

Abstract The article explores the long lost synthesis between apophatic and cataphatic theological strategies early legal systematizations which shaped Christian, Jewish Islamic collections in twelfth century. It argues that possibilities to achieve Divine knowledge have reached out all normative forms of human existence including law. focuses specifically on a Christian context where imagining...

"The rise of digital culture has created both tremendous human possibilities as well challenges and problems. Powerful corporate commercial interests compete for our attention, which become a valuable commodity in the online world. Living organized distractions, awareness is fragmented, causing us to lose touch with ourselves, neighbors, world around us, God. This paper explores traditional asc...