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The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, Judaism, and Christianity: Reading Seminar VII
This chapter discusses the way Lacan examines, in Seminar VII: “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis”, the relation between what he defines as “The ethics of...
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Ethics and Philosophy of Anne Nasimiyu Wasike
Most intellectual work proceeds from deliberate perspectives that shape interpretations and resultant actions from different authored ideas. This...
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Taha Abd al-Rahman on Modern and Postmodern Family Ethics
Chapter 5 presented Taha Abd al-Rahman’s view of modernity. The essence of Taha’s view is that modernization is...
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Reading LG, AA, and GS Through the Lens of Ecclesial Ethics
William Cavanaugh’s critique of Catholic Action and pre-conciliar ecclesiology is used in this chapter to consider how Vatican II understands the...
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Evola and the Dilemma of Islam
In this chapter, we explore one of the three fundamental disagreements between Evola and Guénon, focusing on their contrasting approaches to the East...
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Organizing Pessimism (In Conclusion)
This chapter is a reflection on the need to think about the relationship between ethics and politics and their convergence in the poetic role of...
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Eschatology: From Dante to the Secular Age
The Protestant Reformation was set off by the corruption surrounding indulgences, but more profoundly by Martin Luther’s reflections on justification...
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On the Definition of Religious Belief
In just about all of the current discussions of religion, there is a glaring and crucial omission, namely, a definition of what religion is. This...
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Social Pluralism and Moral Autonomy
We explore in this segment real life examples of religious freedom and inclusive justice, featuring the administration of justice under Prophet...
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Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Church and State
The task of approximating an Orthodox Christian perspective on church and state is confounded by numerous intersecting realities. To whom exactly...
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God
This chapter begins by showing Pascal’s central theme to be the first and most fundamental distinction—Infini rien—between the transcendent God and...
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The East African Revival
The East African Revival emerged in the 1930s as a populist movement seeking the spiritual and moral reform of the mission churches of East Africa....
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When Historiopraxy Becomes Heritage
This chapter discusses the original ethnographic research in Sweden that led to the development of historiopraxy and compare the concept with other...
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Islam’s Diverse Paths, Part Two: Patterns of Practice and Identity
This chapter addresses the ways in which diverse responses to Islam’s message of tawhid, nubuwwa and qiyama led to the emergence of important Islamic...
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Back from the Crocodile’s Belly: Christian Formation Meets Indigenous Resurrection Redux
In this chapter, the author grapples with the question: What happens when the “One True Story” encounters other faith stories? Riffing off her...
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Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Arabian Society Before the Advent of Islam
In Islamic chronology, there are two very distinct historical eras: the pre-Islamic and the Islamic. The pre-Islamic period refers to the period of...
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The Religious Life of the US Military
This chapter investigates formal and informal religious resources veterans have available to them. In addition to religious authorities, symbols,...
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Thealogy and Atheism: Points of Convergence and Divergence
This chapter explores how the discourses of thealogy and those of atheism may sometimes converge as well as diverge. Thealogy and atheism both...
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Conclusions: The Anti-modern Modernity
This chapter serves as a conclusion to the previous eight chapters exploring Italians’ conversion to Shiʿism. As demonstrated throughout the book,...
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Salvation or Damnation: From Paul to Augustine
Paul wrote that salvation rests on God’s power of election. Against the common teaching, Origen argued that everyone would eventually be saved...