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Phenomenology of Religion : A Systematic Approach
Phenomenology of Religion : A Systematic Approach

Peter McKenzie

دوره 7، شماره 2 ، آذر 1388، صفحه 1-19

چکیده
  What follows is an attempt to see Otto the phenomenologist within wider developments in the field, and to take account of some recent criticisms. Everything that is said falls under the general headingof 'introduction to the study of religion'(or 'meta-religionswissenschaft') Within this wide field, we shall be specifically concerned with the possibility of a ...  بیشتر
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Reconceptualising Religion : A Philosophical Critique of Religious Studies as Cultural Studies
Reconceptualising Religion : A Philosophical Critique of Religious Studies as Cultural Studies

Tim Fitzgerald

دوره 7، شماره 2 ، آذر 1388، صفحه 21-36

چکیده
  The aim of my argument (1) is to reconceptualise what is now called religious studies as the study of institutionalised values, and the relation between values and the legitimation of power in a specific society. Though I do not talk much about power here, it is always a fundamental issue in the study of specific social groups.The first assumption which I make ...  بیشتر
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Sufism in the Western History : A Primary Outline
Sufism in the Western History : A Primary Outline

Andrew Rawlinson

دوره 7، شماره 2 ، آذر 1388، صفحه 37-64

چکیده
  The phenomenon of Western Sufi teachers is unique, not just because of the individuals themselves, though they are certainly fascinating, but because of what they represent: the flowering of the Western genius, which has discovered Eastern traditions, absorbed them and in the process changed them and been changed by them. This paper is a primary outline of the ...  بیشتر
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Isma’ili Thesis on the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy
Isma’ili Thesis on the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy

Simonetta Calderini

دوره 7، شماره 2 ، آذر 1388، صفحه 65-76

چکیده
  Though it is widely assumed that Sunni Islam does not have an equivalent to the Christian ecclesiastical hierarchy, Shii groups such as the Medieval Ismailis did have an organised teaching, spiritual, and temporal hierarchy. Evidence gathered from primary sources shows that this Ismaili 'ecclesiastical' hierarchy is strictly intertwined with the Ismaili interpretation ...  بیشتر
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Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Biology : A Historical Review
Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Biology : A Historical Review

Paul Griffiths

دوره 7، شماره 2 ، آذر 1388، صفحه 77-91

چکیده
  The philosophy of biology has existed as a distinct sub-discipline within the philosophy of science for about thirty years. The rapid growth of the field has mirrored that of the biological sciences in the same period. Today the discipline is well represented in the leading journals in philosophy of science, as well as in several specialist journals. There have ...  بیشتر
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Ecological Thought : Some New Implications Of Whitehead’s Philosophy
Ecological Thought : Some New Implications Of Whitehead’s Philosophy

Pete Gunter

دوره 7، شماره 2 ، آذر 1388، صفحه 93-106

چکیده
    This paper will discuss some new implications of Whitehead’s philosophy for environmental thought.[i] They fall under three headings: 1. The interrelations between three ways of thinking about the environment: bioregionalism, land ethics, and the philosophy of organism.  2.  The implications of Whitehead’s philosophy of organism ...  بیشتر
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Intrinsic Value: Towards A Pragmatic Theory
Intrinsic Value: Towards A Pragmatic Theory
دوره 7، شماره 2 ، آذر 1388، صفحه 107-123

چکیده
  Intrinsic value is a concept central to the environmentalist movement. Whether one believes that natural objects have intrinsic value is supposed to determine whether one takes a ecocentric or homocentric approach to environmentalism, whether we practice deep or (merely) shallow ecology.  Yet this concept is also a center of controversy and confusion.  ...  بیشتر