WalterDec 24, 202011 minThe Dangers of the Legacy of Comparative Religion Modern society has a political, social, economic - and of course a religious - history that has shaped it thus far. On the subject of rel...
WalterDec 14, 20207 minThe Invention of World Religions“The question is whether the world religions discourse can be in any way enlisted, and trusted on the side of historical scholarship.” –T...
WalterNov 16, 20207 minThe Future of Past Religion: Hans G. KippenbergAs researchers of religion, our assignments engage material from scholars or historians of the field as part of an implicit task of any s...
WalterJul 6, 202015 minCritical Theory's Perspective of HappinessThe initial proposal of the Frankfurt School can be simply summarized by highlighting the idea that ‘philosophy without empirical scienti...
WalterJun 19, 20205 minDemocracy and Public Justification for Thomas ChristianoThomas Christiano writes that “the aim of democracy as public justification is reasoned consensus among citizens,”[1] but what does the t...
WalterMay 28, 202011 minNietzsche And The Death of God“Under what conditions did Man invent for himself those judgments of values, “Good” and ‘Evil”? ˗˗Nietzsche The three essays in Nietzsch...
WalterMay 15, 20203 minCreative Midrash: Noah and Animals Midrash is a body of Jewish literature from late antiquity, and a method of reading sacred text. It combines close reading with far-rangi...
WalterMay 3, 202018 minMichel Foucault’s Views ofThe Repressive Hypothesis And The Power of Confession“Ours is, after all, the only civilization in which officials are paid to listen to all and sundry impart the secrets of their sex: as if...
WalterApr 16, 202019 minThe Symbolic Manifestations of Evil and Hope Within the Messianic-Expectation Paradigm “Why are you yourself [doctor] so dedicated when you don’t believe in God? Well, if I believed in an all-powerful God, then I would stop ...
WalterMar 24, 20202 min The Light and Fire in a Post-Apocalyptic RoadThe road that symbolizes a journey, a conquest, and a test for survival in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road plays with our senses to describe ...
WalterMar 12, 20205 minLeiter's Objection to Religion as a Special Category for Toleration “Your claim of conscience counts if it is based in religion; my claim of conscience doesn’t count if it is not based in religion. That, i...
WalterMar 3, 202011 minNietzsche and the Death of God“Under what conditions did Man invent for himself those judgments of values, “Good” and ‘Evil”? ˗˗Nietzsche The three essays in Nietzsche...
WalterDec 16, 201922 minThe Difficulties of DemocracyJacques Derrida Deconstructs the Notion of Rogue States Democracy, the supreme goal to reach openness, pluralism, and the ultimate peace....
WalterNov 25, 201923 minCritical Analysis of ISIS’ Actions Under Religious TerrorismIn a matter of a few years, starting in Iraq and later in Syria during its civil war, ISIS slowly grew as the Sunni insurgency was largel...
WalterOct 31, 20197 minSalafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea.In Salafi-Jihadism: The Story of an Idea, Shiraz Maher offers a clear and accessible way to comprehend a topic that is by essence excepti...
WalterOct 24, 20198 minRacism's Last Word“…for manifesting the last extremity of racism, its end and the narrow-minded self-sufficiency of its intentions, its eschatology, the de...
WalterFeb 13, 201918 minThe Repressive Hypothesis And The Power of Confession According to M. Foucault. “Ours is, after all, the only civilization in which officials are paid to listen to all and sundry impart the secrets of their sex: as if...
WalterFeb 13, 20191 minOne you must read: “Faith and Knowledge,” from Acts of Religion by Jacques DerridaAmong discussing extensively on technology, Derrida explores the troubled place of religion in late modernity. The question of religion i...
WalterFeb 13, 20191 minRecommended: Freud’s Infantile Recurrence of TotemismSigmund Freud, “Infantile Recurrence,” in Totem and Taboo (page 166-268). Freud presents his theory on the origin of religions, from star...
WalterFeb 13, 201923 minUnderstanding Turkey’s Secularism Within the Muslim World Interpretations of what constitutes a secular state and analyse it from what Turkey claims to be its perspective of secularism, pluralism...
