My central claim is that resonances between Transcendentalist and Chinese philosophies are so strong the former cannot be adequately appreciated without latter. I give attention to Analects, Mengzi Tiantai Lotus Sutra, which Transcendentalists read. Because there was conceptual sharing across traditions, plus evidence suggesting explored other texts, my analysis includes discussions of Daoism W...

religion and politics in muslim world are like two next-door neighbors. current developments in the region, no matter they named as arab spring, islamic awakening or radicalism stress the mentioned fact. however, involvement of religion in politics is not inappropriate at all, probably these two are janus-faced and they have synchronically showed tendency to each other: constructive and destruc...

More than a decade after the revolutions of 1989, we can see these as a highpoint of a new, worldwide and increasingly global wave of democratic revolution and counter-revolution. Violent struggles between the political forces unleashed have produced genocidal wars and stimulated global state formation. These developments present concerned citizens and students of international relations and po...