Life is plural and diverse, biodiverse. This reality has always provoked philosophy, the sciences, and also theology. But how does theological thinking reflect on this eco-human diversity? What about religious diversity? Are diversity and pluralism the same phenomenon? These questions express the aim of this article: to reflect on theology in the face of diversity and pluralism. With the method...

This essay arises from research carried out between the summer of 2018 and spring 2020 among pilgrims who had participated in Camino de Santiago north-western Spain St Patrick’s Purgatory, on Lough Derg northwest Ireland. Research focused embodied experience relation to pilgrim motivation, groundedness enduring power sacred travel as ritual. Convergent considerations about psychology, theology ...

The influence of the media on human life is increasing, and becoming an important tool in terms presentation religion as well fields education, culture art. majority target audience affected by consists children rather than adults. Many studies that consider childhood a separate field evaluation with spiritual sacred aspect indicate are greater danger our age past centuries. This research field...

This article takes up the onto-theological critique of metaphysics and questions whether onto-theology is not something to evade or overcome, but is inevitable. Consequently, it furthers the exploration of onto-theology by asking, if it is inevitable, then what comes after onto-theology? For the past half-century, onto-theology has been a central concern for philosophy, particularly in phenomen...

Given that comparative theology is aimed at learning from the insights of other religious traditions, the comparative theologian‘s confessional perspective must be engaged and subject to possible transformation through the discovery of truth in those traditions. Despite Francis Clooney‘s and James Fredericks‘ attempts to distance comparative theology from the theology of religions, its truth-se...

The sacred values of a community are critical in understanding cultural conflict. When an attempt is made to trade a sacred value with a secular good, it evokes feelings of anger (tabootradeoff) but less so when that sacred value is traded off with another sacred value (tragic). Previous work has shown that participants who expressed sacred values for an issue were more resistant to taboo than ...

Phenomenology of religion is a development movement in thought and research where researchers try to understand humans classify phenomena specifically including religious phenomena. The purpose this study analyze depth related phenomenological approaches studies.this review literature using descriptive methods. Data collection carried out by means record, listen record techniques. steps include...

The article is an attempt to diagnose selected cultural and social threats relate them the everyday life of church musicians their profession. In this regard, reflection based on analysis presented in book Kłopot za kłopotem. Katolik w dryfującej Europie [Trouble follows trouble. A Catholic a drifting Europe] by Fr Maciej Zięba OP. second part, refers tripartite model sacred music, consisting f...

The emergence of the religious nones can create pedagogical challenges due to the multifarious and institutionally disaffiliated nature of this classification. Thus, this article supplies a potential pedagogical technique by revisiting Peter Berger’s sacred canopy metaphor. We submit that the religious nones can be understood functionally and structurally by employing “sacred metaphors” based o...