recent advances in life-sustaining treatments and technologies, have given rise to newly-emerged, critical and sometimes, controversial questions regarding different aspects of end-of-life decision-making and care. since religious values are among the most influential factors in these decisions, the present study aimed to examine the islamic scholars' views on end-of-life care. a structured int...

Endorsement of science might entail a belief in “secular death”, which an individual faces annihilation as the bodily functions cease. In this article, we examine what science-oriented individuals think happens to humans after death. Does endorsement views on human or do people also express continuity beliefs? The open-ended responses 387 Finns were analysed. respondents recruited online via or...

This article analyzes two approaches to the educational process: postsecular, based on John Dewey’s project, and religious, Sergei Rachinsky’s peasant school which was principle of Christian love. The need analyze these stems from global challenges that call for a rethinking philosophical foundations contemporary education, until recently understood as “marketplace services”, where all pedagogi...

although some scholars view habermas as the most important philosopher and social theorist, his account of religion has been relatively neglected. in this paper, habermas’s early and later views of religion are outlined, and the change in his understanding of religion from one of the sources of modernity’s inner problems to a principal source of the passions and motivations underpinning cultura...

Theologically informed positions are grounded in core beliefs and may be rationally discussed. We analyze Dr. Norko's suggestion on how, in the public square, to address moral disagreements. We point out the dangers of "deliberative democracy" as an approach to resolving conflicts over basic values. We suggest an alternative approach, better grounded in reason, as a way of bringing religious an...

We intended to analyse which aspects of spirituality are of relevance for medical doctors in a mostly secular society and how their spiritual/religious attitudes are related to specific views of illness, their dealing with patients' individual situation, and finally physicians' life satisfaction. Data from an anonymous survey enrolling 237 medical doctors from Germany (mean age 45.7 ± 9.6, 58% ...

Previous studies on inferring the origin of routing changes in the Internet are limited to failure events that generate a large number of routing changes. In this paper, we present a novel approach to origin inference of small failure events. Our scheme focuses on routing changes imposed on preferred paths of prefixes and not on transient paths triggered by path exploration. We first infer the ...

many of scholars think that the term of style has two types: verbal style and semantic style. since the meaning of style in islamic approach is different from  that of  western approach, so we have too many different definitions of style. undoubtedly the elements of literary style also are different in islamic approach from the western approach. meanwhile the effective elements in islamic liter...