this article presents muhammad arkoun's (1928-2010) key ideas on ethos, civil society, and secularism. following reflections on adab, arkoun's inspiration for rethinking islamic heritage (turāth), this contribution shows how arkoun reconsiders the impact of philosophy, both in theology as well as academic scholarship. the paper displays his hopes for generating an innovative intellect...

The history of research in North America suggests that we already know when people arrived in the continental US: about 11,500 C yr BP. Research also suggests that people were in the southern cone of South America by a comparable age, if not earlier. If the New World was colonized by Late Pleistocene migrants from Asia via the Bering Strait, then the earliest sites should be in North not South ...

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Liaqat Ali 1,2, Saeed Islam 1, Taza Gul 1, Ilyas Khan 3, L. C. C. Dennis 4,∗ , Waris Khan5 and Aurangzeb Khan 6 1 Department of Mathematics, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan 23200, KPK, Pakistan; [email protected] (L.A.); [email protected] (S.I.); [email protected] (T.G.) 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, CECOS University, Peshawer 25000, KPK, Pakistan 3 Department of Mathem...

Empirical research has ignored the effects of poverty on adolescent religion even though children are far more likely than adults to live in poverty in the United States. The current research demonstrates considerable differences in the religious activities and religious viewpoints of poor and non-poor American teenagers. Analysis of National Study of Youth and Religion survey data shows that w...

Using 1994-1995 and 2002-2003 data, Nieswiadomy (1998, 2006) found that economics majors scored well on the LSAT. These results are frequently posted on university web sites by Economics and other departments. This note, which updates the prior studies using current 2007-2008 data for the 2008-2009 class of students entering law school, finds that Economics majors still perform at or near the t...

Background Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers the possibility to measure local and regional indices of aortic function. However calculations of these indices usually require blood pressure (BP) values. Up to now, because of its easier availability, brachial BP was used instead of local aortic pressure. The SphygmoCor Xcel system (AtCor Medical, Australia) estimates aortic pressure noninvas...

This article builds on earlier research, which concludes that societies cannot sustain themselves without cultures of optimism. These cultures are reproduced by a complex of ‘optimism promoters’, all of which can be seen to be engaged in a kind of unstated or ‘implicit’ cultural policy, with the production of optimism as one of its goals. The institution of religion is part of this complex. Its...

In this paper, the scientific methodology of the contemporary philosopherImre Lakatos is revised to construct a methodology for theological systems. In this methodology, each theological system consists of the following main elements: (1) hard core I, (2) protective wall, (3) hard core II, and (4) auxiliary hypotheses. We will expound the criteria for the evaluation of different theolo...