Religious Inquiries
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Embodied Mind: What Science offers Religion for Peacebuilding
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2025-04-01)This article explores the secularization of the mind and the dualism it creates as central factors contributing to conflict. Religious and secular perspectives on human nature are often framed as opposing forces in ...
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Critical Analysis of Firestone’s View on al-Ṣadūq’s Role in Fabricating and Organizing Hadiths of Sacrificing Ishmael in Shiite Sources
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2025-04-01)The story of Ibrahim's sacrifice has always been a controversial issue in monotheistic religions. There are also differences among Muslims in determining the slaughter due to the ambiguity of the verses related to the story ...
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Cognitive Errors of Unbelievers in the Holy Quran: A Methodological Approach to Disbelief
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2025-04-01)Cognitive errors are systematic deviations in the judgment and decision-making structure of humans that occur due to a failure to see some information in favor of other information. The Holy Qur'an describes unbelievers ...
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Revised Compensation Theodicy: A Reply to Bruce R. Reichenbach
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2025-04-01)The revised compensation theodicy holds that the primary good of evils, in addition to the compensation of the afterlife, is to justify the existence evil. It holds that this primary good does not necessarily outweigh the ...
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Rumi's view on religion and the meaning of life: A Possibility for Interfaith Dialogue
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2025-04-01)One important question about interfaith dialogue is the shared ground and goal of dialogue. In this paper, I address Rumi's view on religion and the meaning of life, applying its outcomes to interfaith dialogue. Doing so, ...
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Resurgent Religion and the Challenges for Inter- and Intra-religious Relations and Dialogue in Southeast Asia
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2025-04-01)Southeast Asia is a “religious region" where multiple local and transnational faiths have thrived significantly. In recent decades, this area has witnessed a notable increase in observant and conservative religious adherents. ...
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The Religious Imagination: An “Enlightened” Approach
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2025-04-01)The purpose of this paper is to explore “the religious imagination." Relying on sources that claim a distinct entwinement of the human imagination with religious life and thought, this essay points out how these expositions ...
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The Islamic Renaissance of The Buyid Era and its Relations with Seljuk Ceramics and Tiles
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2024-11-01)The Buyid dynasty (934 -1062 AD) was a Persian government that laid the ground for scientific and philosophical debates and religious sects, especially Shi'ism, to maintain national identity and Iranian Islamic thought. ...
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Names and nicknames in political and sectarian controversies, a critical study of orientalists view on “Abu Turāb”
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2024-11-01)Abu Turāb is a title (kunyah) associated with ‘Ali b. Abi Tālib. Historical accounts report that it was initially assigned by the Prophet Muhammad and over time gained popularity. However, a dual approach to this nickname ...
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The ethics of slavery in Islam, Finding the basics of doubts and answers
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2024-11-01)Slavery is a trans-religious phenomenon that humans have faced throughout history, and after the advent of Islam, due to the impact of slaves on social and economic life, it was not logical to abolish it all at once, ...
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Epistemological Considerations on the Problem of Apostasy
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2024-11-01)This paper deals with apostasy from the viewpoint of the modern epistemology. In this regard, the issue is analyzed in relation to the voluntarism of beliefs, ethics of belief and the effects of non-epistemic factors on ...
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Theology of Shi‘ite Ziyārah: the Case for a Norm-Sensitive Approach to Religion
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2024-11-01)Ziyārah is a non-Hajj form of pilgrimage and an often understudied but increasingly integral part of Shi‘ite religious life where it operates as a rich system of ritual thought and practice. In light of an emic approach ...
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Devotional and worshiping songs as the vehicle of the socio-cultural theater of life in modern Hindu society in Nepal
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2024-11-01)The study on significance of various devotional and worshiping songs of Hindus tries to compile, describe, elaborate and analyze the everyday life performance of Hindus who have participated in the singing and it helps to ...
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The Greatest Self-Disclosure of God According to the Qur’an and the Sunnah
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2024-11-01)One of the fundamental relationships between God and the human being is that the latter is a perfect and complete manifestation or the greatest self-disclosure of God. No other entity has the capacity to reveal all the ...
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The nature of intellectual virtues from Mullā Ṣadrā's point of view
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2024-11-01)Intellectual virtues refer to virtues that deal with various aspects of human intellect and thought and they are acquired through education. The present study is conducted with the aim of investigating the nature of ...
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Freedom of Expression or Religious Emotions? An Analysis of Discourse Representations in Global Politics.
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2024-11-01)This paper presents an analysis of the political discourse in the context of the UN General Assembly in the backdrop of the circumstances that were caused by the release of the trailer of a Hollywood film entitled The ...
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A Critical Analysis of van Vloten’s Claims Regarding Shiism and its Origin
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2024-06-01)Among his notable publications, the Dutch orientalist van Vloten (1866-1903) authored a book titled A Study on Arab Domination, Shiism and Messianic Beliefs Under the Umayyad Caliphate. Within this book, there is a dedicated ...
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The Day of the Lord in the Bible and the Quran: Its Timing and Characteristics
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2024-06-01)“The Day of the Lord" is a common term used in both the Bible and the Quran. This research aims to address some basic questions about this term: Why are only some specific days called “God's days"? When does the Day of the ...
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Reviewing and Criticizing Averroes’s Viewpoint on Granting the People of Reasoning (<i>Ahl al-Burhān</i>) the Right to Interpret the Quran Esoterically
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2024-06-01)Averroes or Ibn Rushd (520/1126-595/1198), the great Western Islamic thinker, contemplated the relationship between philosophy and religion seriously and created some important works such as Fasl al-maqal fīmā bayn al-ḥikma ...
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Friedrich Max Müller and Cornelis Petrus Tiele’s Framework for the Scientific Study of Religion: A Critique
(University of Religions and Denominations (URD), 2024-06-01)During the Renaissance and Reformation eras, the discipline of religious studies saw a notable paradigm change. This movement entailed a departure from the previous emphasis on Christian apologetics and polemics towards a ...
