John Hick has used revolutionary metaphors in recommending his pluralistic philosophy of religions. To turn from a focus on the particulars of one’s home religion to a focus on the universally available Real is, he famously says, a Copernican “revolution” in religious thought. Hick says that those religious adherents who abandon the traditional positions of exclusivism or inclusivism, positions...

1. Introduction One significant but not widely appreciated impact of the " new religions " has been to reopen the question of the relation of religion to science. I speak of new religions in the sense defined by Needleman in his book by that title, that is, I am referring primarily to Eastern teachings which have gained adherents and cultural influence in the West over the past two decades. To ...

Religion played a prominent role in the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945–1952) that followed the brutal Pacific War (1941–1945). Officially, the occupiers were to promulgate religious freedom, separate religion from the state, and encourage the Japanese people to develop a ‘desire for religious freedom’. Promulgating religious freedom was the easy part. Separating religion from the state withou...

Religion is increasingly acknowledged to be a cultural dimension which affects economic outcomes in different regards. This contribution focuses on religion’s possible impact on the shadow economy. Different dimensions of the religious markets are taken into account. These dimensions refer to the overall degree of religiosity, the specific impact of different religions, religious competition or...

Conscientious objection (CO) is the refusal to obey laws due to moral, religious or belief principles. The ideologies or religions underlying laws or constitutions have been seldom analyzed. Scientific Ethics finds that constitutions and laws have implicit or explicit ideological elements that are imposed on citizens, and denies or forbids others that lead citizens to CO. Ideological analysis i...

E conomics and environmentalism are belief systems that shape their adherents’ way of thinking about the world. We might just as accurately characterize them as secular religions, which most theologians count as real religions (see, for example, Tillich 1963), but many people prefer to regard them as competing belief systems. Many (not all) economists and environmentalists thus function in the ...

Until recently the theoretical structures of psychiatry and psychology were based on the observations of a rather limited range of mental phenomena and human experiences. Very little systematic and serious attention was given to a variety of phenomena that have been described over centuries within the framework of the world's great religions, as well as temple mysteries, mystery religions, init...

More than three years statistics of the Covid-19 pandemic shows great anomalies in relative fatalities different countries. Computations show that Christian and Jewish populations, by a factor 4 to 5, suffer greater compared Muslim populations. Ironically, most populations are developing or underdeveloped, deprived health services available mostly-developed Factors may be contributing fatality ...

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