Religious entities play significant roles in the current refugee/ forced migration crisis. These roles include innovative and experience based ideas to address broken aspects of the humanitarian system, overall advocacy on behalf of refugees and migrants based on humanitarian and spiritual principles, direct action in refugee camps and communities, action in communities that refugees and migran...

This study investigated the effects of religious education on student religious identity over and above parent religiosity by examining student perceptions of two aspects of teacher functioning: teacher caring and teacher as role-model. We posited that effects of these variables on students' religious identity are mediated by student perceptions that the school provides a non-alienating religio...

among the theologians of the 18th century and the period known as enlightenment in europe, particularly in germany, schleiermacher explains religion and religious emporience not in terms of metaphysics or ethics but from the viewpoint of religious intuition. his defining characteristic is that unlike his contemporaries, he does not reduce religion to ethics, science, metaphysics or art. having ...

Purpose – The assumption of ecological thinking as a main ideology for social systems implies many relevant changes concerning the relation between social and ecological systems. Changes meaning a deep redefinition of goals and strategies pursued for centuries by human communities, like the uncertainty reduction in relation to resources’ availability and management, defence respect to variance ...

PHILOSOPHY Ever since the time of Pascal men have feared that the 'God' worshipped by believers and the 'God' contemplated by philosophers were somehow different. The former was personal, historically active, slow to anger and plentiful in mercy: the latter was dubiously able to be described in personal terms at all, and infinite in such a way as to baffle the imagination. The 'God' of the form...

Inclusive curriculum development in Higher Education is increasingly witnessing the of institutional inclusive frameworks and toolkits. This short paper introduces one such framework recently developed at a modern university South East England. The IDEAS model (Inclusive learning teaching, Digital inclusion, Employability learning, assessment for Sustainability mindset) involves range distincti...

shaykh shams al-din mohammad ben makki ameli known as the first martyr is an outstanding faqih from jabal amel in the ayyubids period. trying to spread shiism in an anti-shiite environment and to have relationships with the sarbedaran of khorasan in iran, he was imprisoned and finally martyred. relying on the relationship between religion and reason and the status of reason in religious precept...

The article is concerned with researching of the philosophical-religious phenomenon religious ethics. Relevance study determined by number difficulties definition concept “religious ethics”, ambiguity interpretation this in modern movement, social humanitarian sciences, and theology. relevance to also provided since there a need find an understanding between different ethical paradigms conditio...

FINAL TEXT (as delivered 23 Sept, 2007) I have been asked to speak on “Healing, the Individual Search for Meaning, and Modernity”. This is a fascinating topic that connects with my own research on several levels. As some of you know, my first ethnographic fieldwork was an investigation of Sekai Kyusei-kyo, one of the 700 or so new religions founded in Japan in the 20 century – and a religion fo...

Despite the recent series of electoral victories by populists seeking to capitalize on antipathy about globalization, our world remains radically interconnected. The planet’s ecosystems are just as dependent on global climatic processes as before; the world’s societies continue to experience intensifying levels of cultural exchange; and economies still operate with increasing disregard of limit...