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Yoga, Silence and Ineffability in Hinduism
In Yoga, Silence and Ineffability in Hinduism, Laura E. Weed explains how the practice of yoga leads to self-knowledge of a type that is not...
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Self-Reflexivity, Knowledge Production, and Cross-Racial Solidarity
This chapter discusses three interrelated issues that demonstrate how Pacific, Asian, and North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry...
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Spiritual Diagram as a Guardian of Silence in Daoism, Confucianism and Buddhism
Maja Milčinski points out that Asian philosophers, especially in the Buddhist and Daoist traditions, developed methodologies for self-knowledge...
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Research Is Not Greater Than the Methodology: Ways of Seeing and Analyzing Ubuntu
This chapter is about our faith—the Methodology—we believe that, almost like a religion, research is not more important than its adopted worldview or...
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Critiques of Conventional Economics
A brief critical history of political economy and an overview of the science and dogma of neoclassical economics reveals that there are fundamental...
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Polar Visions of the Economy
In the last five decades, a paradigm has emerged dominating thinking about how Islam proposes humans, individually and collectively, are to manage...
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Sacred Drama and Temporal Tapestries: Invoking the Divine by Performing the Past in Contemplative Christianity
American adherents of Wisdom Christianity have performed historiopraxic sacred drama to weave a politically charged experiential and conceptual...
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Community Empowerment Versus Individual Success among Neo-Pentecostal Pastors in South Africa
This argument put forward here, is that the current practice of selling sacred products and consulting prophets in Neo-Pentecostal churches benefits...
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Conclusion: A SEACO-OIC Knowledge-Human Resource Program as a Socio-scientific Model of Moral Inclusion
In conclusion, this work has presented a non-conventionalist area of socio-scientificSocio-scientific thought based on the moral...
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Auroville: Land, Technology and the Micropolitics of Integral Living in an Intentional Community
Started in 1968 on a circular patch of barren land of 1.6 mile radius in Tamil Nadu, India, Auroville was conceived as a city-state that belonged to...
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Basics of Learning Devotional Hindu Dance
I present prerequisites for individuals who wish to be my students. These prerequisites develop from my ongoing self-study that explores pedagogy to...
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Introduction
Islam meaning peace becomes an important point in the discussion of inner peace; Muslims believe the religion of Islam is a source of inner peace,...
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Concluding Reflections
A conclusion section summarizes the main points made in each chapter and reveals the comprehensiveness of our worldviews. Our beliefs, values,...
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Heresies: The Causes of the Fall of the Ming and the Obstacles to Implementing the Kingly Way
Wang Fuzhi analyzed the Channist essence of Wang Yangming’s teaching of inborn knowledge of the good and the Buddhist elements with which Zhu ** and...
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Historical Concepts of Religious Education in Alevism: Buyruk Writings on Educational Aspects of the Alevi Path
This chapter examines historical concepts of religious education in Alevism by focusing particularly on the so-called Buyruk writings, which date...
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Defense Against the Dark
Here we demonstrate that spirits are treated as active agents that can help or hurt humans in most cultures. We discuss prayers, magic, talismans,...
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The Nakedness of Prakṛti: A Sāṃkhya-Yoga Reading of Aubrey Menen’s The Space Within the Heart
In his autobiography The Space within the Heart (1970), the writer Aubrey Menen shares the experiment in self-inquiry he conducted in the 1960s in...
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Normative Citizenship Education in Plural Societies: A Dialogical Approach to Possible Tensions Between Religious Identity and Citizenship
In the media there is a lot of miscommunication about Muslims and Islam, resulting in misconceptions circulating among the Dutch population. The...
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Fichte and Hegel on Knowledge and Self-Consciousness
After a brief account of the main arguments of Fichte’s Science of Knowledge, I turn to Hegel as the figure who occupies the pinnacle of German...
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A Review of “The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya”
The reviewed book, titled “The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya” (Raveh, D., & Coquereau-Saouma, E. (Eds.).
2023 )...