(Dost) Düşmanlar: Hıristiyan Siyonizminde Antisemitizm ve Anti-İslamizm

Author(s): Ömer Kemal Şahin / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 3/2019

The paper deals with “Christian Zionists”, who have born out of Protestantism, conglomerate particularly in the United States of America, provide a non-proportional support for Israel and who at the same time antagonize Islam. The movement’s quiddity, genesis, theology, activities, as well as anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic tendencies are elaborated. According to initial findings, Christian Zionism constitutes an anomaly from a number of perspectives. Most importantly, Jews and Christians symbolize two com-munities that have been violently antagonizing each other since centuries. Defenders of Christian Zion-ism believe in the eschatological scenario of “premillennial dispensationalism”, a theology mainly in-troduced by the Anglo-Irish priest John Nelson Darby that divides world history before the establish-ment of the global Millennial Empire following the Second Coming into seven dispensations. This scenario determines the raison d’être, purposes, friends and foes of the movement. While the Jewish role in it as frenemies is controversial and ambivalent, Muslims’ role as enemies is unequivocally unfavorable. This situation leads to the demonization of Muslims by Christian Zionist figures. Albeit being criticized by co-religionists in a number of areas including ethics, politics and particularly theology, Christian Zionists occupy a significant position in world politics thanks to their alliance with imperial powers. The paper aims to fill the scholarly gap caused by the scarcity of Turkish literature on Christian Zion-ism’s quiddity, as well as its nexus with antisemitism and anti-Islamism.

(In)compatibilitate între lucrarea rațiunii și cea a credinței, în relația omului cu Dumnezeu?

Author(s): Ciprian Costin Apintiliesei / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 9-12/2017

This study proposes a brief reflection on the problematic of the report between the human reason and the faith in the fulfillment of the man. On one hand, it raises the voice of some modern thinkers who presume an exclusivity of the reason, and on the other hand, it emerges the claiming of certain believers who postulate an exclusivity of the faith. But both some and the others converge to assert an incompatibility between reason and faith. However, our approach consists exactly in putting forward some biblical and patristic arguments in favor of their plenary compatibility. The authentic vocation of the reason is to support the relation of the man with God, and it is in this purpose that it always needs to be strengthened and accompanied by the faith, the only force capable of helping it to develop and reach so its real goal.

(MUKADDİMETÜ İ‘LÂİ’S-SÜNEN) EBÛ HANÎFE VE ASHÂBÜHÜ’L-MUHADDİSÛN, Zafer Ahmed Tânevî (Tehânevî) Osmânî

Author(s): Muhammet Ali Tekin / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 2/2017

Review of: (MUKADDİMETÜ İ‘LÂİ’S-SÜNEN) EBÛ HANÎFE VE ASHÂBÜHÜ’L-MUHADDİSÛN, Zafer Ahmed Tânevî (Tehânevî) Osmânî (v.1974), Beyrut, 2001.

(Nie)obecność Boga osobowego w niemieckiej literaturze drugiej połowy osiemnastego wieku

Author(s): Agnieszka K. Haas / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2016

The 1755 Lisbon earthquake is considered an event that changed the course of world history. It also changed the belief in the Divine Providence popular in the Christian West and confi rmed some philosophers in their skeptical opinion on the so-called Leibnizian optimism. In mid-18th century German writers changed their way of speaking about God and Divinity, which was in part conditioned by the ‘optimism crisis’ characteristic of the period in question.

(Nie)obliczalny świat. Z filozoficzno teologicznych rozważań nad granicami racjonalności

Author(s): Antoni Nadbrzeżny / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

Teza Rogera Penrose’a o nieobliczalnym (niealgorytmicznym) charakterze ludzkiej świadomości (umysłu), będąca argumentem przeciwko możliwości stworzenia sztucznej inteligencji, może przyczynić się do wzmocnienia poczucia tajemniczości świata. Niezależnie od naszego stosunku do platonizmu matematycznego(zakładającego istnienie obiektywnych pozaczasowych bytów matematycznych)filozoficzna refleksja brytyjskiego kosmologa stanowi impuls do rozwijania współczesnej teologii w twórczym dialogu z naukami, kierującym się zasadą krytycznej otwartości i wzajemnej dynamicznej wymiany osiągnięć poznawczych.

CORRELATION BETWEEN RELIGIOSITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Author(s): Senad Mehmedinović,Damir Babajić / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

The aim of the study was to determine the correlation between religiosity and quality of life in persons with disabilities. The survey included a total sample of 92 respondents from the area of Tuzla Canton. Of the total sample, 41.3% had paraplegia, 30.4% had cerebral palsy, and 28.3% had amputation. The World Health Organization's Quality of Life Questionnaire as well as the religiosity assessment questionnaire were used to verify the set research objective. A correlation analysis was applied to verify the set research objective. Based on the results of the research, it can be concluded that there is a statistically significant correlation between different domains of religiosity and quality of life in persons with disabilities.

De la sclav la vizir: ascensiunea lui Iosif în Egipt

Author(s): Alexandru Nicolae Agignoaei / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 02/2020

The present study aims to shed more light on an Old Testament biblical moment that we do not consider sufficiently intensely treated in local biblical theological disciplines: the rise of Patriarch Joseph in Egypt, from slave status to vizier status, or, in other words, to the second position in the Egyptian empire, after that of Pharaoh. In our research we used interreligious sources, in addition to the specifically Christian ones (Holy Scripture and patristic writings) using the Muslim Qur’anic account of Joseph’s life in Egypt, but also the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius. It will thus be noted that the biography of Joseph in Egypt, at least until the time he becomes vizier, is approached differently in the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim writings mentioned above, between which there are obviously both similarities, as well as differences, both aspects that are incompatible and aspects that can be harmonized in an exemplary manner in order to fill some gaps regarding the rise of Joseph in the empire of the pharaohs. At the same time, in conducting this research, we used strictly profane sources related to ancient Egypt, sources that, through their level of objectivity, gave us very useful and very interesting details, details that clarify many aspects of the scriptural report from the Book of Genesis on how Patriarch Joseph ascended to Egypt from a simple slave to the second man in the empire. We sought in the research to be as objective as possible in terms of extrascriptural sources, so we can bring some clarifications of a religious, historical, political, social and moral nature that we consider necessary in achieving an exegesis or a strictly historical approach to this scriptural episode from the Old Testament.

Decretul ,,Haec Sancta” și importanţa sa în cadrul conciliului de la Konstanz (1414-1418)

Author(s): Gabriel-Nicolae Bleahu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 02/2020

The solution found by the decree „Haec Sancta” was the main pawn in solving the problem within the Western Church, which arose at the end of the 14th century. Thanks to this decree, it was possible to elect a new pope, and by his election, to end the schism and to reorganise the Western church. Those who dealt with the translation of the original text of the decree „Haec Sancta” shed light, by exegesis on the text of the decree „Haec Sancta”, the origin of the council, the importance of the decree and its necessity to resolve the moment of sad remembrance of the life of the Western Church. However, the decree, has been challenged on numerous occasions, being considered only a solution of damage, and some, more critical, said that it is a heretical theory that is a reference to the constitution of the Roman Catholic Church.

DIALOGICA Revistă de studii culturale și literatură

Frequency: irregular and other / Country: Moldova, Republic of

Dialogica is a scientific publication with Open Access. The founders of the journal are B. P. Hasdeu Municipal Library (Chisinau) and Department of Social, Economic, Humanities Sciences and Arts Section of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. We, the researchers of a group set up in a new-old composition at B. P. Hasdeu Municipal Library Research Section, we propose a ramp of experimentation, one on whose surface our humanistic training to justify its efforts and to be used in the service of all readers, not just those in the academic space. We will adapt the academic practices (literary theory, comparative literature, history, philosophy, ethnology, anthropology, plastic arts, translation studies, and so on) in order to care for the general audience of the central library and, in fact, the entire society. By virtue of our location between the university and the institute of scientific research, the exercise of transgression of the boundaries of disciplinary specialization, but also of scientific journal conventions, in which we isolated ourselves not without a certain pride, being accessible only to a small circle of initiates in the hieroglyphs in a particular field, will not encounter obstacles in this publication. We want a breath of oxygen in a suffocating world of template, a release of vision and a new impetus for our concerns. We aspire to a typographical space in which dialogue as a means of communication, thinking and human knowledge connects us to the Western academic world. Science cannot exist in isolation, it is revealed and renewed only at the border with foreign ideas. We are committed to building a field of interaction, a mutually supportive relationship, a viable exchange of ideas. We are also proposing a meeting of goals and projects to facilitate symbolic communication with the other, opening up to the pluralism of the theoretical perspectives and orientations. Our dialogue will focus on the contemporary cultural phenomenon as a product of thought and creativity and will manifest itself in the field of socio-human and art sciences. Therefore, we see fit in the paradigm of interdisciplinary dialogue, of the relationships between approaches of different disciplines. Considering that most of us come back from literary studies (see the Archive of Metaliterature journal), the widening of the horizon towards cultural studies is a challenge that we undertake in this way. We will, therefore, facilitate articles with theoretical and interpretative concerns from the area of cultural studies, where literature, for example, is a cultural phenomenon like any other in the context of its time. However, in order to create a pendant in reducing the number of literary studies that generated self-transformation and loan of new and extremely prolific research methods, we reserved a special place in the title of the journal and in the space of some columns, for literature and its promotion.

Disputatio philosophica: International Journal on Philosophy and Religion

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Croatia

Disputatio philosophica is international scientific journal at The Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Zagreb, which annually publishes articles in philosophy, religious studies and theology in English, German, Italian, Spanish and French language.

Exorcizarea din ținutul Gherasei în descrierea lucanică (Luca 8, 26-39). O perspectivă exegetică

Author(s): Traian Florea / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 02/2020

The present study treats the perspective of The Holy Evanghelist Luke, about the miracle of the exorcization from Gherasa (Luke 8, 26-39). The exegetical aproach of this pericop, focused on the particularities of the lucanian narative about this miracle, show the evanghelical consens in render about the works of Jesus. In the context of the seeming differences within the accounts of the Evanghelists – this miracle is not an exception, the particularities found within the account are not in contradiction, but in complementarity. Different perspectives do not automatically imply disagreement. Pointing out some, or more, details about this miracle, from the many miracles Jesus did, is neither mechanical nor random, but every Evanghelical writer followed a certain purpose through his writing. Therefore, there were presented those facts and those places that where converged to the purpose pursued by writing. The answers given to the question: „Why do these differences exist?” come to confirm the trust in the accuracy of the Evanghelical accounts, that are credible sources, proving that „All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful” (2 Tim. 3, 16).

Feministička čitanja društvenih fenomena

Author(s): / Language(s): Bosnian

Ova knjiga je rezultat zajedničkog rada polaznica i polaznika Feminističke škole Žarana Papić i nastala je kao plod dvosemestralnog obrazovanja o aktualnim društvenim pitanjima iz perspektive feminističke teorije i prakse. Budući da autorice i autor dolaze iz različitih profesionalnih sfera i različitih polja interesovanja, utoliko je i ova knjiga protkana interdisciplinarnim pristupom različitim društvenim fenomenima, što ovu knjigu čini dodatno zanimljivom koliko i edukativnom. Iako je feminizam, kao marginalizirani društveni pokret u 21. stoljeću kojeg se često degradira i promovira u trivijalnu doktrinu, uglavnom izopćen iz bosanskohercegovačkih akademskih kurikuluma, ova knjiga je pokušaj da se feminizmu u javnom diskursu da prostora kao kredibilnoj kritičkoj teoriji aktualnih društvenih procesa. Budući da živimo u društvu ispresjecanom patrijarhalnom političkom kulturom, feministička teorija čini se obećavajućom za buđenje aktivizma i rađanje konstruktivne kritike društva. Otuda, cilj ovog pojmovnika i jeste provociranje čitatelja/ke na razmišljanje o pojavama koje nas okružuju, a o kojima se u javnom i akademskom diskursu uglavnom ne govori. Sveopća indoktrinacija javnog mnijenja kroz ponavljanje ustaljenih društvenih normi, koje nameću i teme o kojima se smije odnosno ne smije razgovarati, dovela je do pasivizacije društva i nedostatka građanskog obrazovanja o pojedinim, u ovoj knjizi zastupljenim, temama.

Fenomenologiczne zapytywanie o religijny wymiar istoty sztuki. Rozważania w kręgu myśli Heideggera, Duméry’ego, von Balthasara i Henry’ego

Author(s): Andrzej Krawiec / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 19/2021

Phenomenological reflection on the essence of art goes towards the revelation of its ultimateSource, which is also the Source of spirituality of a man and, finally, of artistic works. Artoccupies a prominent place in the works of Martin Heidegger, Hans Urs von Balthasar andMichel Henry, and what they have in common is pointing out the ability of transcendingartistic work towards beyond-aesthetic and over-aesthetic dimensions. For those philosophers the work of art is a ‘way’ which may lead human spirit towards Transcendence (theAbsolute, God), but also towards the inner self. In this article the reflection over a religiousdimension of the essence of art is extended by the analysis of St John Passion, BWV 245by Johann Sebastian Bach, as a particular example of an artistic realization of phenomenologically rooted philosophical and theological reflection.

Grzegorz Kucharczyk, Katedra i uniwersytet. O kryzysie i nadziei chrześcijańskiej cywilizacji

Author(s): Wojciech Roszkowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2021

Haosul hazardului sau cosmosul determinismului?

Author(s): Francisc Gafton / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 12/2020

All that exists emerges from the previous and is subject to some determining factors, that is, it has antecedents and causes, which have antecedents and causes, regardless of the difficulty of exhaustively analysing the elements of the causal chain (that is to quantify their forces, their hierarchy and weights, to determine their degrees of conjunction, interdetermination and collaboration, to monitor, mathematize and algorithmize their components), nothing being indeterminate and random. Such difficulty or impossibility cannot generate or constitute a reason to conclude that such complex processes would be indeterminate and random, as they are rigorously determined by a multitude of inextricably intertwined factors.

Hrvoje RELJA: "Tomistička filozofija"

Author(s): Ivan Macut / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 4/2021

Review of: Hrvoje RELJA: "Tomistička filozofija"– Leykam international, Zagreb, 2021., 436 p. Reviewed by: Ivan Macut.

Importanța catehezei în actualitate. Activități catehetice desfășurate în Biserica Ortodoxă Română și Biserica Ortodoxă din Grecia (studiu comparativ)

Author(s): Nicolae-George Barbu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 02/2020

The study aims at describing the catechesis activities, as well as their importance and essential requirement in order to ensure a harmonious growth of the young generation and not only. Changes that occur in society, the human being’s dependence on everything that is material, consumerism, selfishness and personal self-concern make us approach the issue of catechesis from another point of view. Taking into account the fact that the catechetical programs carried out within the Romanian Orthodox Church are extremely well known, they have been schematically presented. At the same time, the study presents and describes the catechetical activities carried out by the Greek Orthodox Church, as well as their importance and impact on the individual, on family and on the community. The uppermost goal of the study consists in the exchange of the catechetical experience between the two Churches, to their mutual benefits. It is shown that in the contemporary context, catechesis is more necessary than ever. It is by no means outdated or obsolete. The importance of a thorough education, which presents young people with genuine and worthy role models to follow, is fundamental in the process of educating them, but also in building a beautiful future for our society. In the study, there are references to Internet addresses related to these catechesis activities, as well as to new catechetical methods, proposals and points of view

Interkulturizam u obrazovanju

Značenje za religijskopedagošku praksu i stjecanje kompetencija nastavnika vjeronauka

Author(s): Ana Thea Filipović / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 4/2021

What is interculturalism and what is its significance in education? How is the issue of intercultural education profiled in the context of religious-pedagogical thought and practice? Why is intercultural education also important for the training of religious education teachers? We try to answer these questions starting from basic concepts and perspectives and the possible importance of the topic for the Croatian context. The article focuses on the development of the idea of interculturalism as a pedagogical concept emerging from the problems of American society in the first half of the 20th century and its reception in the religious pedagogy of the place. It then shows the development of intercultural education in Europe in the second half of the 20th century and its religious-pedagogical relevance. The article then presents the newer socio-philosophical foundation of interculturalism which connects it with human rights and the ethics and politics of recognition of diversity. On this basis, it elaborates the significance of interculturalism for the education and competencies of teachers, especially religious education teachers with regard to intercultural and interreligious learning.

Jeszcze o karierze kościelnej Pawła Legendorfa (ok. 1410–23 VII 1467)

Author(s): Radosław Krajniak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2019

'Jezidi' si tjetri në poezinë fetare të Naim Frashërit

Author(s): Abdullah Rexhepi / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 35/2017

Social identities are created by interacting with the others so our identity or the identity of the group (us) if formed through the process of thinking about ourselves or about “us” in relation to “the others”. It is an egocentric or ethnocentric process, where I ‘we see things from our perspective and point out who are “the others” and who are “we”. Therefore “we” are not “them” and vice versa. Dichotomies based on sexual, racial, class, religious etc. categories, like “We” the men, “the others” women (Simeone de Beauvoir, “The second sex”) and “we” normal people, others, fool people as well (Michel Foucault, The history of stupidity / madness), Natives / Strangers, Occidentals / Orientals or Muslims (Said, The Orientalism), friends / enemies, The white people / The black people (Stuard Hall), heterosexuals / homosexuals (Foucault, The history of Sexuality), Albanian / Turkish - Asiatic (Sulstarova, The escape from the east) and other discussions as well. If in the national character poetry of Naim, the Turkish/Asiatic made “the other” of the Albanian, and was the symbol of his evil and backwardness, in the religious poetry of him, “Yazid” and his family are “the others” of the Bektashi Albanian, which was the ideal Albanian of Naim as well. In this script we aim to treat the concept of “Yazid” as the concept of “the other” in the religious poetry of Naim Frasheri.