1. “LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”. In the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. “Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and who produces various fruit with coloured f...

Institutional Christianity is in crisis about ‘sexuality’. Its detractors in the supposedly secularized and liberal climes of Northern Europe, who nonetheless yearn for what they call a satisfying ‘spirituality’, see this crisis as a sign of its failure to engage the contemporary world. Its conservative defenders, to be found mainly in religiously observant parts of North America and throughout...

This study was conducted to try understand Hasan Hanafi's hermeneutic thinking in the context of interpretation Qur'an. Given that Qur'an is a holy book deserves be applied throughout all times and various places. There are methods can used interpret One them approach. Not few figures who offer concepts, from orientalists Muslim scholars themselves. However, with hermeneutics relevant slogan ab...

Thy Quran is such a Holy book that has several purposes and objectives for different people. The main objective of this study to provide numerical statements the based on verses, words, letters in Makki Madani sura. intended compute descriptive statistics, construct frequency distribution present it graphically. data used were extracted from Code software. result found average number sura highe...

The book discusses the experience of two Florentine travellers in Levant from 1760s to 1792. During their separate stays Cyprus and Istanbul they visited Holy Land, Anatolia Mesopotamia providing extensive reports on natural history, institutions, local customs languages as well data economy health conditions area. Their numerous printed works enjoyed remarkable success were translated into Fre...

This study aimed to examine the stories of 25 prophets mentioned in Qur'an within framework existential theory. The research has been studied on associating and their with concepts While life was encountered existentially positive theory, no relationship could be established negative concepts. Knowing that holy book Islam, Qur'an, can associated theory is important because it beneficial therapy...

Background: Holy water use in the form of a drink and a shower is the main treatment used by People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) together with other spiritual practices. A growing number of PLWHA in Ethiopia today are relocating to holy water sites. The study was intended to determine the level of use of holy water as anti-retro viral treatment (ART) among PLWHA. Cross sectional study designs w...

literature and theories put forth to date. Thagard summarizes results of research to date: “the central hypothesis of cognitive science: Thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures” (p. 10). He uses a shorthand notation for this approach: the computational-representational understanding of mind...