The Clash between Scientific and Religious Worldviews: A Re‐Evaluation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Caruana
Keyword(s):  
Religious Worldviews

An initial investigation of the role of death concerns in evaluations of metaphoric language about God

2021 ◽  
pp. 008467242110316
Author(s):  
Lucas A Keefer ◽  
Faith L Brown ◽  
Thomas G Rials
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Correlational Study ◽  
Initial Investigation ◽  
Metaphoric Language ◽  
Religious Worldviews

Past research suggests that death pushes some individuals to strongly promote religious worldviews. The current work explores the role of conceptual metaphor in this process. Past research shows that metaphors can provide meaning and certainty, suggesting that death may therefore cause people to be more attracted to epistemically beneficial metaphoric descriptions of God. In three studies, we test this possibility against competing alternatives suggesting that death concerns may cause more selective metaphor preferences. Using both correlational (Study 1 and pre-registered replication) and experimental (Study 2) methods, we find that death concern is generally associated with embracing metaphors about God.

Zakir Naik and His Audiences: A Case Study of Srinagar, Kashmir

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-222
Author(s):  
Raoof Mir
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Religious Worldviews

Most literature on Mumbai-based Muslim tele-Islamicist Zakir Naik offers an organizational, biographical and ideological profile. This approach has concealed the symbolic significance attached to Naik by his audiences. This paper attempts to explore not only who and what Naik is, but how and where he is located. By incorporating ethnographic and cultural studies approaches, this paper offers fresh insight into Naik and his methods of communicating religion. Taking Srinagar, a city in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, as an ethnographic site, this paper explores how Muslim individuals or groups interpret Naik in relation to their religious worldviews. The articulation of Islam by Zakir Naik through media platforms such as television and social media has contributed to a religious trend in Kashmir, in which people have discovered new ways to think about themselves and to participate in discourses about religion that would have been unthinkable a few decades ago.

New Sacred Places in Contemporary Poland: Ethnographic Case Study of Two Miracles in Sokółka and Legnica

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-79
Author(s):  
Tomasz Kalniuk
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Holy Places ◽  
Religious Worldviews

Abstract Events that happened in Poland in 2008 and 2013 related to the alleged miracles in Sokółka (in the Podlasie region) and Legnica (in the Silesia region) seriously affected the native ‘sacrosphere.’ Sensational information about the unusual events polarized public opinion by confronting secular and religious worldviews. At the same time, the increase in the devotion of the faithful was accompanied by folklore-forming mechanisms, adding new threads to the ‘miraculous story.’ Ethnographic research performed in the newly founded sanctuaries reveals elements of sensuality specific to folk religiosity. Miracles displaying the motif of blood build the reputation of Sokółka and Legnica as new holy places, attracting pilgrims and tourists from Poland and abroad. Contrary to pessimistic predictions of widespread secularization, there was a revival of the so-called ‘traditional piety.’ Folk religiosity revealed its vitality.

Interculturation: Exploring Changing Religious, Cultural, and Faith Identities in an African Context

2001 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Grenham
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
African Context ◽  
Reign Of God ◽  
Religious Cultures ◽  
Theological Concept ◽  
Religious Worldviews

Inculturation, as a theological concept, needs more understanding. An improved understanding suggests invoking the term interculturation to describe the dialogical process between Christian religion and other cultures with diverse religious worldviews. This article suggests that evangelisation and educating in faith encompasses a mutual reciprocal partnership between religious and non-religious cultures in order that the gospel can transform them to reveal God's vision for humankind. This vision is manifested for Christians in the Reign of God. The Turkana nomads of Kenya are a case study in which an exploration of religious interculturation takes place to effect significant changes in Christian and Turkana religious identity. The gospel is proclaimed through dialogue and witness that expresses itself through appropriate cultural materials that have the capacity for transcending the particularity of cultures. The article concludes with some reflections on the implications of interculturation for worldwide religious education.

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