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Journal articles on the topic "Moral and religious aspects of Amusements"
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Willemse, Martijn, Mieke Lunenberg, and Fred Korthagen. "The moral aspects of teacher educators' practices." Journal of Moral Education 37, no. 4 (2008): 445–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057240802399269.
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Harits, Imron Wakhid. "RELIGIOUS AND MORAL VALUES IN MADURA FOLKTALES." Sirok Bastra 1, no. 2 (2018): 243–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.37671/sb.v1i2.27.
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Madura has a lot of Folktales as the reflection of its values in its social life. As the cultural identity, most of Madura folktales are the mirror of social values and characteristics of Madura society. Thus, the Madura folktales contain the moral and religious values as the most important element for Madura society. The aim of this paper is to identify and to investigate five Madura folktales, these are: The Origin of Madura, Bangsadcara and Ragapadme, The Origin of Tajungan, Aer Mata Ebu, and Aryo Menak. These five folktales are chosen because they are the most popular Madura folktales among others. While, the aspects of moral and religious values are the most dominant elements that can be found in these five Madura folktales. Such two aspects are the local genious that can be bequeathed from one generation to the next generation. The aspect of moral will have the close relation with the appreciation and respecting to the parents and teacher on the other hand, the aspect of religious values are related with sufism and another Islamic values. Both of two aspects are used as the fundamental of social construction in Madura. Therefore the religious and moral aspects sourced in Madura Folktales must be explored to look for the identity as Madurese.
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Travkina, Natalya. "Moral and Religious Aspects of Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points”." Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, no. 2 (2020): 182–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013038640008664-8.
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Shishkina, Alisa, and Leonid Issaev. "Internet Censorship in Arab Countries: Religious and Moral Aspects." Religions 9, no. 11 (2018): 358. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel9110358.
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Internet censorship remains one of the most common methods of state control over the media. Reasons for filtering cyberspace include ensuring the security of the current regime, attempts to limit all kinds of opposition movements, and the protection of the religious and moral norms of society. In Arab countries, where religion plays a major role in the sociopolitical sphere, the latter is particularly important. Since, in Islamic law, there is no direct reference to censorship in practice, governments cause many resources to be filtered under various pretexts. At the same time, as the example of Egypt during the Arab spring shows, moral and religious reasons for filtering the Internet have more grounds than, say, the persecution of opposition leaders.
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Roszak, Piotr, and John Anthony Berry. "Moral Aspects of Imaginative Art in Thomas Aquinas." Religions 12, no. 5 (2021): 322. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12050322.
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For Thomas Aquinas, the imagination, being one of the “inner senses”, is a doorway to attain true knowledge. In this paper, we first analyze his lexicon in this regard (imaginatio and phantasia). Second, we discuss imagination as the subject matter of the intellectual virtues, which facilitate cognition and judgment. The development of imagination is the foundation of his vision of education not only on the natural but also on the supernatural level. Third, we explore Aquinas’ moral assessment of imaginative art and finally its influence on shaping the character. This influence occurs on two levels: it is assessed from the perspective of charity, justice, prudence and purity, namely to what extent the art serves these values, whereas the second criterion is beauty.
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Mackey, James P. "Moral Values as Religious Absolutes." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 32 (March 1992): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246100005701.
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Those who have had the benefit of a reasonably lengthy familiarity with the philosophy of religion, and more particularly with the God question, may be so kind to a speaker long in exile from philosophy and only recently returned, as to subscribe, initially at least, to the following rather enormous generalization: meaning and truth, which to most propositions are the twin forces by which they are maintained, turn out in the case of claims about God, to be the centrifugal forces by which they disintegrate. In simpler language, the greater the amount of intelligible meaning that can be given to the idea of God, the less grounds there would appear to be for assuming let alone asserting, that God exists, at least as a being distinguishable from all the things in this empirical world which are the source of the range of meanings available to us; on the other hand, the more we insist that God exists, a being over and above the things that make up this empirical world (the more we take the proposition ‘God exists’ to be a true proposition in this particular transcendent sense, for the adjective ‘transcendent’ has many uses) the less the amount of commonly available meaning we appear to be able to apply to God. Or, to put this in a manner which might obviate an obvious objection to it; either everything we know is tout ensemble, God, and then nothing in the world that we know is distinctively divine; or else nothing in this world is God, and then nothing that we appear to be able to know is God. That same formulation will work, it should be noted, even if we substitute for ‘things in the world’, ‘an aspect or aspects of things in the world’.
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Ashbach, Jonathan. "The Phenomenological Moral Argument." Philosophia Christi 21, no. 1 (2019): 135–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/pc201921114.
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The moral argument for the existence of God is a popular and rhetorically effective element of natural theology, but both its traditional ontological and epistemological forms rely upon controversial premises. This article proposes a new variant—the phenomenological moral argument, or PMA—that is exclusively empirical in form. The PMA notes several empirical aspects of moral experience (seven are discussed in the version presented here) that cohere much more naturally with a theistic than with an atheistic account of conscience’s origins. It therefore concludes that divine creation best explains the nature of moral experience, and thus, that God exists.
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Friedman, Benjamin M. "Economics: A Moral Inquiry with Religious Origins." American Economic Review 101, no. 3 (2011): 166–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.101.3.166.
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In contrast to the standard interpretation of the origins of economics out of the secular European Enlightenment of the 18th century, the transition in thinking that we rightly identify with Adam Smith and his contemporaries and followers, which gave us economics as we now know it, was powerfully influenced by then-controversial changes in religious belief in the English-speaking Protestant world in which they lived: in particular, key aspects of the movement away from orthodox Calvinism. Further, those at-the-outset influences of religious thinking not only fostered the subsequent spread of Smithian thinking, especially in America, but shaped the course of its reception. The ultimate result was a variety of fundamental resonances between economic thinking and religious thinking that continue to influence our public discussion of economic issues, and our public debate over economic policy, today.
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Schwarz, Silke. "Religious aspects in psychiatry and psychotherapy." International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare 11, no. 2 (2018): 109–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhrh-07-2017-0031.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of religion in psychiatry and psychotherapy and it introduces a context-oriented approach to religion. Design/methodology/approach The paper opted for a selective literature review to highlight significant issues with regard to mainstream psychology. Findings It provides a short summary on the historical neglect and exclusion from clinical practice and shows how religion was integrated into the mainstream of psychotherapy and psychiatry. A quantitative and universalistic approach to religion is dominant. The widespread approach to religious coping by Pargament is presented as well as related findings with regard to religion and mental health. Research limitations/implications The paper includes implications for the development of a context-oriented inclusion of religion and encourages for associated empirical research. Originality/value With a critical inclusion of contexts, professionals may stay alerted to the issue that health and disorders are not ontological facts but contain moral codes of a current society. It takes the social context and unequal power relations as the starting point for a partisan cooperation with the affected persons.
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Pyrog, G. V. "Social Aspects of the Functioning of Religious Values." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 26 (January 14, 2003): 30–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2003.26.1442.
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The relevance of the study of the problem of Christian axiology is due to the growing interest in religion and the associated change in world outlook and values in contemporary Ukrainian society. The study of religious values is caused by the urgent problem of finding universal moral values of social development and clarifying the content, structure and nature of their functioning. The scientific study of religious values is also relevant because this problem is closely linked to the value aspects of political life. Christian values are one of the most important factors influencing the formation and development of Ukrainian culture.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Moral and religious aspects of Amusements"
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Brugger, E. Christian. "Capital punishment, abolition and Roman Catholic moral tradition." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:352bddad-62d7-4621-9043-b603afdc5855.
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The last fifty years have seen a turn in the Catholic Church's public attitude toward capital punishment. From openly defending the right of the state to kill malefactors, the Church has become an outspoken opponent. What accounts for this? How can it be reconciled with Catholic tradition? Should the current teaching be called a 'development of doctrine'? Can we expect further change? These questions shape this thesis. The work is divided into three parts comprising a total of eight chapters. Part I undertakes a detailed exegesis of the death penalty teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1997). I conclude that the text, while not explicitly stating that the death penalty is in itself wrong, lays down premises which when carried to their logical conclusions, yield just such a conclusion. This conclusion is checked and confirmed by the fundamental moral reasoning found in the papal encyclicals Evangelium Vitae and Veritatis Splendor. In light of this conclusion (what I call the new position), Part II asks the question: may the Church, constrained by sound biblical interpretation and dogmatic tradition, legitimately teach in a definitive way that capital punishment is per se wrong? This is a question which concerns the development of doctrine. Before it can be answered the Church's traditional teaching needs to be precisely formulated so that it can be placed in juxtaposition to the new teaching. An analysis of statements throughout ecclesiastical history is therefore undertaken and what we might call the cumulative consensus of ecclesiastical writers on capital punishment is formulated. The authoritative nature of this teaching is analyzed to determine what kinds of developments it admits and excludes. Judging its nature admits of a development like the one described in Part I, models are proposed to explain modes by which it might be understood to be developing. Finally, a systematic and philosophically consistent account of the new position is proposed and its implications for other teachings in the Church's tradition of 'justifiable violence' is examined.
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Basourakos, John. "Theatre in the evolution of moral values among adolescents." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59824.
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Theatre has a special place in religious education for it is an ideal medium to experience transcendent moral truths. Relying on Gabriel Moran's theory of transcendence, as well as Daniel Maguire's understanding of the moral, this thesis will demonstrate that the aesthetic experience of a play is a transcendent experience. Through such an experience, adolescent students may intuit insights about what befits persons as moral persons in all their complexity and wonder. The plays chosen for concentration in this thesis are not to be considered exhaustive but only as sound examples of the treatment of the evolution of transcendent values within the adolescent phenomenon.
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Wash, Dwight Derrell. "Concepts of supernatural punishment for worldly moral misconduct." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/450.
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Nehushtan, Yossi. "Religious conscientious exemptions." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670045.
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Dimokpala, Chrisopher Chukwudi. "Catholic reflections on abortion and euthanasia - towards a theology of sacredness of human life." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_3945_1310979257.
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<p>It is not possible in this paper to deal with all the moral problems revolving at the &ldquo<br>beginning&rdquo<br>and &ldquo<br>end&rdquo<br>of human life in the modern world. However, something must be said about the question regarding respect for human life vis-à<br>-vis abortion and euthanasia, since they are widely discussed today and since they strike at the very heart of traditional morality. The dignity and worth of individual life cannot be derived from analysis of individual life itself. Humanity is not the measure of all things. Whatever value human beings have is strictly transitory unless it is in our relationship to some ultimate source of value outside us. Christian faith understands human value as being established by our relationship with God - a relationship created and given by God himself. It is because we have our being from God and are sustained by God that we can meaningfully affirm the value of individual human life.</p>
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Flannagan, Matthew, and n/a. "Is historic Christian opposition to feticide intellectually defensible in the 21st century?" University of Otago. Department of Theology and Religious Studies, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070208.095157.
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In this work, I argue that the Alexandiran position on feticide found in Hellenistic Judaism and appropriated by patristic, medieval and reformed theologians is defensible in the 21st Century. I formulate an argument from the Alexandrian position as it appears in several representative Christian traditions. This argument contends that that: [1] killing a human being without justification violates the law of God, [2] a formed conceptus (i.e. a fetus) is a human being and [3] that in the case of feticide (at least in the majority of cases) no justification is forthcoming.
In developing my case, I argue that the objections raised against the premises of this argument by contemporary philosphers are unsound. I defend the intellectual acceptability of belief in and appeals to the existence of a divine law, the notion that a formed fetus is a human being and the claim that feticide lacks any justification in the vast majority of cases.
In addition, I examine and critique theologians who claim the Alexandrian position is motivated by misogyny and those who claim it appropriates a translation error found in the Septuagint.
I conclude that the traditional position is defensible and that contemporary dismissals of it are unconvincing.
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Karsten, Anja. "Knowledge and attitudes of religious leaders towards HIV/AIDS." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50387.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Religion plays a significant role in the structuring of people's identities and
perceptions and also has the potential to playa fundamental role to determine
how communities respond to HIV/AIDS. Faith-based organisations are
respected in their communities and have existing resources, structures and
systems in place. People who are diagnosed with HIV often turn to the
church where they receive emotional and spiritual support.
The primary objective of this study was to determine the knowledge of
religious leaders about HIV/AIDS and their attitudes towards people living with
it. A non-experimental quantitative research design was used in this study
and the data was gathered through a structured questionnaire.
The respondents were not exceptionally informed about the transmission of
the HI-virus, but their knowledge around the risk of specific sexual behaviour
was high and their attitudes towards PLHA generally positive.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geloof speel "n belangrike rol in die vorming van "n mens se identiteit en
persepsies en het ook die potensiaal om gemeenskappe se reaksie rakende
MIV/Vigs te bepaal. Geloofsorganisasies word in hul gemeenskappe
gerespekteer en het bestaande hulpbronne en stelsels in plek. Mense wat
MIV postitef gediagnoseer word, wend hul dikwels na hierdie organisasies
waar hul emosionele en geestelike ondersteuning ontvang.
Die doel van hierdie navorsing was om die kennis en houdings van
geloofsleiers rondom MIV/Vigs en die mense wat daarmee leef te bepaal. "n
Nie-eksperimenteel kwantitatiewe navorsingsontwerp is gebruik, en die data
is deur middel van "n gestruktureerde vraelys ingesamel.
Hoewel die respondente se kennis omtrent die oordrag van die MI-virus nie
voldoende was nie, het hul die nodige kennis rondom die risiko van spesifieke
seksuele gedrag gehad. Hul houdings rondom MIV/Vigs en mense wat
daarmee leef was positief.
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Williams-Jones, Bryn. "Embodiment, property, and the patenting of human genetic material." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ29520.pdf.
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Shapiro, Ivor. "The ethics of homicide : a contextual critique of the sanctity-of-life principle with particular reference to abortion and revolutionary violence." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15879.
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Bibliography: pages 299-306.<br>Society never absolutely prohibits homicide: there are "grey areas" in which it is sometimes tolerated or even encouraged. Moral discussion of each area is usually carried on in isolation from the others, and perhaps for this reason, frequently ignores or underestimates the complexities of the morality of killing. This thesis attempts to identify a general method for analysing such issues, so that they can enrich one another. A contemporary theological survey indicates that there should be a balance in Christian ethical method between the polar values of obedience in respect of general standards, and freedom to exercise individual responsibility. This implies recognising a place for intuitions, and specifying a way in which these can be subjected to criticism. In contrast, the Sanctity-of-Life Principle seeks to impose a universal prohibition on the killing of "innocent" human beings. While the Principle provides a useful general guideline, it is deficient as a moral norm - partly because of fatal difficulties associated with the concept of innocence. The method adopted in this thesis is that suggested by Philip Wagaman: methodological presumptions are identified and then tested in a utilitarian way. For the ethics of homicide, I propose a primary presumption favouring the preservation of life, and various secondary and linguistic presumptions. The contextual framework of the thesis is limited to two specific issues - abortion and revolutionary violence.
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Obiedat, Ahmad Z. "Uṣūl al-fiqh hermeneutics as reflected on the debate on human cloning : a critical analysis of contemporary Islamic legal discourse". Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79968.
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This thesis discusses the prohibition of human cloning in contemporary Islamic legal discourse, which relies on two distinct doctrines: the first seeks support in the Qur'anic text, while the second depends on method of utilitarian legal hermeneutics (al-istiṣlaḥ ). These doctrines are examined by comparing them to the method that contemporary Islamic legal discourse adopts, namely, uṣul al-fiqh. When this is done, a discrepancy emerges in the first doctrine that traces this prohibition back to the text of revelation, which in turn requires further clarification of the foundations of hermeneutics in uṣul al-fiqh---identified here as textual and legislative consistency. For this, Shaṭibi's theory of maqaṣid al-sharī'ah offers one of the most reliable bases for the hermeneutics to evaluate the second doctrine. The methodological venture in this thesis aims at criticizing the current methodology while at the same time offering a justified approach to hermeneutics in contemporary Islamic legal discourse and in the case of human cloning.
Books on the topic "Moral and religious aspects of Amusements"
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Sirico, Robert A. A moral basis for liberty. 2nd ed. Foundation for Economic Education, 1996.
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1932-, Lawson Nigel, Oddie William, and Institute of Economic Affairs. Health and Welfare Unit., eds. A moral basis for liberty. IEA Health and Welfare Unit, 1994.
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More moral than God: Taking responsibility for religious violence. Rowman & Littlefield Pub., 2008.
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Sex, drugs, and violence in Jewish tradition: Moral perspectives. Jason Aronson, 2004.
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Verkerk, Maarten J., and Jan Hoogland. "The Hidden Dimension of the Energy Transition: Religion, Morality and Inclusion—A Plea for the (Secular) Sacred." In Shaping an Inclusive Energy Transition. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74586-8_4.
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AbstractThis chapter explores the energy transition from a philosophical perspective. We argue that there is a hidden dimension in the current discussions about sustainability. This hidden dimension can be found first of all in the fact that phenomena such as the denial of global warming, the rise of populism and the increase in social contradictions are not seen in their context. At a fundamental level, it appears that all these phenomena are characterized by broken connections: man no longer feels connected with the Transcendent, the human being and the planet. On the basis of the above analysis, we outline some action perspectives. We conclude that the energy transition not only requires addressing technological, economic, social and legal problems, but that moral and religious aspects must also be discussed. Because it is precisely religious or moral values that motivate and inspire people to strive for an inclusive energy transition and release a lot of creative energy.
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Mariuzzo, Andrea. "Religious and moral values." In Communism and anti-Communism in early Cold War Italy. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526121875.003.0003.
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This chapter highlights the extent to which a radical and absolute struggle such as the Cold War opposition of Communists and anti-Communists involves the aspects of religious faith and moral values. The theological anti-Communism promoted by the Churches of Pius XI and Pius XII strongly influenced the perception of Communism in Italy. Communists were frequently seen as ‘godless’ sinners and immoral corruptors of the youth. Such common perception forced the Italian Communist Party to a reaction based on the claim of its full compliance to the inner spirit of the Christian message of charity and solidarity.
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Goshen-Gottstein, Alon. "The Truth Beyond and Beyond Truth." In Religious Truth. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786942289.003.0006.
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The chapter tackles the notion of truth within Hasidic literature. It examines various aspects of the system of Breslav Hasidism, and juxtaposes two stages in Breslav theology: the thought of its founder, R. Nahman, and that of his disciple, R. Nathan. For R. Nahman, truth is to be understood as a state of being in fullness, rather than as an affirmation of specific doctrines and faith tenets. Not all can attain truth, here conceived as the higher state of being in union with the One, the Good, and the True. Truth is a state of being with moral and existential expressions. Truth is rising to God himself. R. Nahman's disciple takes the argument a step further. For him, truth in this world is impossible. We cannot attain truth; hence, we must cultivate faith. For both teachers, the approach to truth ultimately points to a way of being. For R. Nahman it is the way of being in God that constitutes truth, as it is attained by the few, the great masters. For his disciple, R. Nathan, renouncing truth in the cognitive sense leads to a way of being that prefers other values. Ultimately truth, in the sense of true opinions over which one would fight and argue, is more of a vice than a virtue. It is faith we must seek, not truth.
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Lev, Efraim. "Professional, Social, Geographical, Religious and Economic Aspects of Jewish Medical Practitioners." In Jewish Medical Practitioners in the Medieval Muslim World. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474483971.003.0004.
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The fourth chapter is a discussion based on the total number of biographies, and the medieval as well as the contemporary literature available. It discusses professional, social, geographical, religious and economic aspects of the Jewish medical practitioners (mainly physicians); places of medical practice, the practitioners’ professional education, intellectual workshops (i.e. libraries), and their professional roles, mainly that of ‘Head of the Physicians’. It also deals with everyday life and activity of Jewish practitioners, moral aspects, fees and the ‘Geniza’ patients, as well as religious and inter-religious aspects of Jewish practitioners, the high-ranking positions Jewish practitioners held, conversion to Islam, and famous Jewish scholars, authors, poets and diplomats who were simultaneously practitioners. A few more insights are related to community affairs, socio-economic position of Jewish practitioners, their role in the leadership, their share in charity activities, and the inter-community posts they held. The last section of this chapter endorses aspects such as: Karaite and Samaritan practitioners and geographical aspects (Jewish practitioners in Andalusia, north Africa, Sicily, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Azerbaijan).
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Essien, Essien D. "The Phenomenological Claims of Gratitude as a Religious Experience and Its Moral Worth." In Phenomenological Approaches to Religion and Spirituality. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4595-9.ch010.
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Contemporary thinking regarding the phenomenon of gratitude portrays it as a fundamental attribute of every human being as well as a commendable and beneficial human quality capable of enhancing human flourishing in society. This study demonstrates that although a variety of life experiences can elicit feelings of gratitude, there is evidence that the moral human society considers gratitude as a force capable of encouraging acts of beneficence. Apparently though, in the lens of ethics, gratitude is a purely person-to-person phenomenon, while ingratitude is seen as a profound moral failure. This research addresses issues of why moralists generally see gratitude as an obligation and stressed its dutiful aspects rather than its emotional quality. Findings show that until the advent of moral sentimentalism, gratitude interventions had always produced positive outcomes and benefits which in the heart of ethics is a duty and social obligation towards human benefactors and God.
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Gilmartin, David. "Voting, Religion, and the People’s Sovereignty in Late Colonial India." In Religious Interactions in Modern India. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198081685.003.0011.
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The chapter discusses the connections between religion and popular sovereignty during the late colonial period in relation to voting. The author explores two key aspects of the legal contradictions embedded in elections, the legal concept of ‘undue influence’ and the relationship between conscience, community, and free choice. The paradoxes of sovereignty were increasingly transposed into the self, conceived as an inner struggle between conscience and free choice, on one side, and the coercive pressures of society, on the other. The chapter also discusses several election cases in India and Burma starting in the 1920s, in which issues of ‘undue influence’ were raised, and explicates the difficulties of distinguishing religion as a form of external power exerted by religious authorities, from free devotional commitment to a religious community. Emphasizing the Protestant missionary background of the ideas of a moral self, conscience, and free choice, the author asserts that such ideas resonated with many Indian Protestant missionary.
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Saada, Najwan. "Teachers' Perceptions of Islamic Religious Education in Arab High Schools in Israel." In Global Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Paths in Islamic Education. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8528-2.ch008.
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In this multiple case study, the authors explore the purposes and significance of Islamic religious education as it is viewed and interpreted by Arab and Muslim teachers in Arab high schools in Israel. It interrogates how the Muslim teachers locate themselves and their pedagogy within a continuum of salafi (conservative) versus liberal conceptions of tarbiyya (the spiritual aspects of Islam) and ta`dib (the moral aspects of Islam) and why they do so. The results show that teachers support the salafi rather than the liberal conceptions of Islamic education. This means that they focus on the naql (the transmission of religious knowledge) rather than aql (rational thinking) in teaching the moral aspects of Islam. Also, teachers avoid the dealing with the intellectual diversity within Islam, the discussion of contemporary issues, and the tenets of other Abrahamic religions. They conclude that this may lead to religious illiteracy and argue that liberal Islamic education with critical and reflective reasoning is much appropriate for living in multicultural and multi-faith society.
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Benger Alaluf, Yaara. "Introduction." In The Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198866152.003.0001.
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The introductory chapter of the book outlines and questions the conventional approach to the democratization and popularization of British holidaymaking in the late-nineteenth century. This dominant take interprets it as a process of depathologization or the result of a loss of faith in the healing powers of water and a growing demand for entertainment and amusement. It then lays out the aims and objectives of the book by introducing its central claim that historical changes in holiday culture and tourism consumption can be better understood in light of shifts in the way people understood emotions and the emotional self. The popularization of the British holiday resort went hand in hand with intense debates about the purpose of the holiday (health or pleasure) and its methods (treatments or amusements), all related to broader moral controversies concerning class and wellbeing. The chapter presents the research questions, theoretical framework, and structure of the work. It then explains the theoretical implications of the absence of a dedicated study on the emotional aspects of holidaymaking, and introduces the concept of ‘emotional economy’, which serves as the book’s central analytical framework throughout.
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Asproulis, Nikolaos. "“Orthodoxy or Death”: Religious Fundamentalism during the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries." In Fundamentalism or Tradition. Fordham University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823285792.003.0011.
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This essay first contextualizes the question of the relationship between the religious and secular aspects of contemporary Greece that lies behind of any discussion of fundamentalism. It is important to note that the Greek case looks quite different from other Western societies. Despite the (external) change or progress in various aspects of institutions or daily life, religiosity remains high in Greece, and the religio-political identity of Greek Orthodoxy has allowed the Church to maintain a voice in the public square. This study then provides a brief overview of the main aspects of religious fundamentalism (e.g., reactivity, selectivity, inerrancy, moral Manicheanism) in contemporary Greece, and it concludes by describing the basic contours of an Orthodox secular theology—focusing on the incarnation, eschatology, unity of truth, and the modern existential concern—that offer a response to the current state of this Orthodox fundamentalism.
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Marsden, George M. "The Twenty-First-Century Postsecular University." In The Soul of the American University Revisited. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190073312.003.0025.
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Many observers agree that twenty-first-century universities have lost their way with respect to the task of providing moral leadership for their students and for the nation. This chapter surveys leading commentators, including Harry Lewis, Anthony Kronman, Andrew Delanco, William Egginton, Jonathan Haidt, and Greg Lukiankoff, on these themes, especially in the decline of the humanities. Many blame the business and economic interests and related careerism that shape most of university education. Still, as John Schmalzbauer and Kathleen A. Mahoney show, religious interests can still be found in many aspects of university life, including study of religion, campus ministries, and personal religious beliefs of many professors and students. Nonetheless, emphases on diversity do not always include religious diversity.
Conference papers on the topic "Moral and religious aspects of Amusements"
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Kovaleva, M. V., and O. V. Mikhailov. "Search for Ways to overcome the Crisis by Representatives of Russian Religious Thought." In General question of world science. Наука России, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18411/gq-31-03-2021-61.
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The crisis at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries affected different countries and different aspects of social life, which was inevitable both due to geographical proximity and cultural, economic, political and other intersections. Addressing the topic of the sociocultural crisis was characteristic of both Russian and Western European philosophers of the early 20th century. The author in the article refers to the understanding of its features and ways to overcome it in the context of the ideas of Russian religious philosophers. An integral feature of Russian philosophical thought in the context of assessing the ongoing social changes and the search for ways out of a crisis situation is an understanding of the special purpose of Russia and an awareness of its role in human history. The works of Russian philosophers are full of anxiety about the future of mankind, about the fate of Russia, a premonition of possible death, therefore it is no coincidence that the appeal to the theme of the Apocalypse, the impending catastrophe, the end of history is perceived as a real threat to the existence of mankind. With all the diversity of approaches to assessing the sociocultural crisis, Russian thinkers are united by common philosophical roots, religion, national and cultural traditions. In the context of understanding the crisis processes of the early twentieth century, Russian religious thinkers raise the question of the role and significance of a person in the transformation of life, thereby actualizing the moral and anthropological problems.
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Agapov, Valerii Sergeevich, and Liubov Georgievna Ovda. "Comparative Analysis of Desires and Ideals in the Structure of the Value Sphere of the Personality of Younger Schoolchildren." In International Research-to-practice conference. Publishing house Sreda, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31483/r-96994.
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The article presents the generalized results of a comparative empirical study of the manifestation of desires and ideals in the structure of the value sphere of the personality of younger school choldren in secular (n=218) and orthodox (n=212) schools. The orientation of meeting the needs of younger schoolchildren and its classification is shown. The analysis of the identified ideals and role models of modern younger schoolchildren is compared with the results of a study of the ideals of children in Germany and America conducted in the early twentieth century. General and specific results of comparative analysis of empirical data are presented. The author proves the need to develop and implement in the practice of spiritual and moral education programs of psychological and pedagogical support for the development of the structure of the value sphere of the personality of younger schoolchildren in cooperation with the school, family and Church. At the same time, the methodological significance of the anthropological principle of education with its religious-philosophical, psychological and pedagogical aspects is emphasized.