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\u3cem\u3eMāyā\u3c/em\u3e, \u3cem\u3eĀṇava Mala\u3c/em\u3e and Original Sin: A Comparative Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
“The longing for grace in Hinduism,” argues Bishop Sabapathy Kulandran, “springs more often from the desire to solve a metaphysical problem than from an agony tearing at one’s inmost being.” For this reason, a Hindu seeks liberation from a metaphysical ...
Halloran, Nathan, SJ
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
wiley   +1 more source

The similarity of Ali (as) and Jesus (PBUH) in Islamic tradition

open access: yesComparative Theology, 2016
According to the teachings of the Shia, Imam Ali (AS) has unique features by which he earned the merits of becoming the successor to the Prophet (pbuh) as the Imam and Wali.
Sorush Ghanbari   +2 more
doaj  

The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review: A.J. Appasamy and his Reading of Rāmānuja: A Comparative Study in Divine Embodiment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Book review of A.J. Appasamy and his Reading of Rāmānuja: A Comparative Study in Divine Embodiment. By Brian Philip Dunn.
Jones, Arun W.
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Book Review: \u3ci\u3eThe Divine Body in History: A Comparative Study of the Symbolism of Time and Embodiment in St. Augustine and Rāmānuja.\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Book review of, The Divine Body in History: A Comparative Study of the Symbolism of Time and Embodiment in St. Augustine and Rāmānuja.
Sydnor, Jon P.
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Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
wiley   +1 more source

Komparative Theologie als Brückenschlag zwischen Theologie und Religionswissenschaft

open access: yesZeitschrift für Junge Religionswissenschaft
In this article I reflect on the interdisciplinary cooperation between scientific studies of religions and (Catholic) theology as well as on the relationship between the two disciplines in general.
Moritz Bauer
doaj   +1 more source

Thomas Aquinas on Imperfect and Perfect Happiness and Seeing God [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2016
Happiness according to Thomas Aquinas is the perfect good which is obtained upon seeing God in after life. The happiness which Aquinas refers to is the perfect happiness against imperfect happiness.
Mansooreh Maleki, Hosein Hooshangi
doaj   +1 more source

Philosophical Theology and Indian Versions of Theodicy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Comparative philosophical studies can seek to fit some Eastern patterns of thought into the general philosophical framework, or, on the contrary, to improve understanding of Western ones through the view "from abroad". I try to hit both marks by means of
Shokhin, Vladimir K.
core   +1 more source

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