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Reincarnation: Mechanics, Narratives, and Implications
Religions, 2017 This essay explores the mechanics associated with rebirth, noting differences between Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain narratives. It examines the concept of subtle body and the liṅgam in Sāṃkhya.
Christopher Chapple
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St Andrews Encyclopaedia of TheologyReincarnation (metempsychosis, transmigration, referring to the same Hebrew concepts ha’atakah, gilgul) is a belief that has been historically present in Jewish culture since at least the tenth century, with written kabbalistic traditions circulating ...
Leore Sachs-Shmueli
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The Reality and the Verifiability of Reincarnation
Religions, 2017 We investigate the topic of reincarnation by revisiting a recent debate from the pages of the journal Philosophy East and West between Whitley Kaufman, who presents five moral objections to karma and reincarnation as an explanation for human suffering ...
Ankur Barua, Barua Ankur
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The Reincarnation(s) of Jaya and Vijaya: A Journey through the Yugas
Religions, 2017 Among the earliest reincarnation narratives found in India’s Puranic texts, we find the stories of Jaya and Vijaya, the two gatekeepers of the spiritual world. Though there is little in these stories to explain reincarnation in a philosophical sense, the
Steven J. Rosen
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Science’s Big Problem, Reincarnation’s Big Potential, and Buddhists’ Profound Embarrassment
Religions, 2017 Scientific materialism is the largely unquestioned basis for modern science’s understanding of life. It also holds enormous sway beyond science and thus has increasingly marginalized religious perspectives.
Ted Christopher
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Reincarnation Christology in African Christian Theology [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2023 The subject of reincarnation has been considered a reserve of primal (esoteric) religions or cultures. Therefore, it has not been thoroughly studied to decipher the philosophical and theological issues thereof. Notwithstanding, what seems to be the total
Edward Agboada , Francis Appiah Kubi
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Who gets what? Assessing the reincarnation debate
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 Reincarnation is a death-specific and forward-looking philosophico-religious phenomenon that enjoys a cross-cultural appeal. It represents the theory that when the soul separates from the body at death, it informs another body for another round of ...
Nicholas U. Asogwa, Michael E. Onwuama
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The doctrine of reincarnation in the thought of the wall [PDF]
مجلة جامعة الأنبار للعلوم الإسلامية, 2020 The subject of reincarnation is one of the most prominent topics of the doctrinal theory leading and prevailing in the religions of ancient India and philosophers and according to the data we have been shown that the thought adopted by Ahmed bin Wall and
Yaseen M. Yaseen
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MULLĀ ṢADRĀ'S CRITICISM OF REINCARNATION
Kanz Philosophia: A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism, 2023 The concept of reincarnation is believed to be the rebirth of humans in the world as a form of part of their life journey in accordance with their actions during life with various forms of reincarnation—including being able to be reborn as humans or ...
Kholid Al Walid
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Mulla Sadra's Evaluation of Suhrawardi's Eschatology [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2020 The present article explains and analyzes the impact of Suhrawardi's eschatology on Mulla Sadra's philosophy and Sadra's critical evaluation of it. In this research, we have tried to explain and analyze Mulla Sadra's critiques of Suhrawardi's thought ...
Simin Mowlaie +2 more
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