Nous avons proposé cette année d’offrir une initiation au śivaïsme, destinée principalement aux étudiants de master, à travers la lecture d’un texte du śivaïsme non dualiste Cachemire, datant fin xe ou début xie siècle : le Pratyabhijñāhṛdaya « Cœur reconnaissance » Kṣemarāja. Pour notre conférence, nous divisé les deux heures en parties indépendantes, comme précédemment. Ainsi avons‑nous conti...

This paper examines the concept of “diversity” as mentioned in the Qur’an and how commonalities in diverse religions may be used as a model for civilizational dialogue towards achieving harmony. This study reveals that religious and cultural diversity are laws of nature which cannot be changed while the concept of “identity” is a contested issue in modern discourse. Results also show that peace...

Religions are organized in a variety of ways. They may resemble an elected autocracy, a parliamentary democracy, or something akin to a monarchy, where heredity plays a primary role. This variation allows for a comparative study of their organization. These differing power arrangements call for different types of strategic behavior in the fight for control over church doctrine and finance. And ...

Abstract Religions use linguistic and non-linguistic codes of meaning to express their contents: natural tongues, music, sculpture, poetry, rituals, practices... Also, religions provide the semantic context rules produce, validate, interpret expressions: as such, can be considered languages. The Sophia Special Issue ‘Religions Languages: A Polyphony Faiths’ explores multifaceted relationships w...

the overall aim of this paper is to highlight a transcendental usage of the religion of islamin the qur’an. i will show that the notion of islamas a unitary religion is used in the qur’an as a genus for religions (adyan) which have appeared throughout human history. this usage will show that there is a sense of religion which guarantees the essential unity of all religions and prepares us to un...

Some scholars include changes in spirituality, such as a greater commitment to their religious beliefs or an enhanced understanding of spiritual matters, in the definition of posttraumatic growth; others conclude that questions of spirituality should be excluded from this definition. This article highlights the fundamental difference of religion to other domains of posttraumatic growth because ...

Psycho-spiritual therapy (PST) is an approach that incorporates religion and spirituality into psychotherapy. For centuries, this has been done in many settings, and across different religions. BhagavadGita’s concept of a mentally healthy person focuses itself on certain special characteristics in the personality development of an average Indian which is the key to its psychotherapeutic context...