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Lacuna model | The lacuna model is a tool for unlocking culture differences or missing "gaps" in text (in the further meaning). The lacuna model was established as a theory by Jurij Sorokin and Irina Markovina (Russia), further developed by Astrid Ertelt-Vieth and Hartmut Schröder (Germany) and practical research tested in ethnopsych... | 0.764231 | 0.912212 | 0.69714 |
Religious attribution | Religious attribution in social psychology refers to how individuals use religious explanations in order to explain or understand a particular experience or event that otherwise could not be understood by natural causes.
The term religious Attribution is derived from the more general attribution theory of social psy... | 0.777844 | 0.895892 | 0.696865 |
Normative model of culture | The normative model of culture is the central model in culture history, a theoretical approach to cultures in archaeology, anthropology and history. In essence it defines culture as a set of shared ideas, or norms.
The normative model was the dominant model in archaeological theory up to the rise of processual archaeo... | 0.761996 | 0.914427 | 0.696789 |
Beutelsbach consensus | The Beutelsbach consensus constitutes a minimum standard for civic (Politische Bildung) and religious education (Religionsunterricht) in Germany. It was developed in the frame of a 1976 conference held in the southern German town of Beutelsbach to reanimate the exchange of different didactic schools after a period of... | 0.76459 | 0.911043 | 0.696574 |
Humanistic medicine | Humanistic medicine is an interdisciplinary field in the medical practice of clinical care popular in the modern health systems of developed countries.
Problems facing healthcare
In many countries with modern healthcare systems, healthcare systems are facing enormous difficulties in meeting demands given limited hea... | 0.761485 | 0.914427 | 0.696322 |
Theistic humanism | Theistic humanism is the combination of humanistic ideals, particularly the idea that ideals and morals stem from society, with a belief in the supernatural and transcendental.
It is frequently invoked as a form of spiritual opposition to monotheism.
In African philosophy
In Southern Africa, indigenous humanism is ... | 0.787433 | 0.883915 | 0.696023 |
Local skepticism | Local skepticism is the view that one cannot possess knowledge in some particular domain. It contrasts with global skepticism (also known as absolute skepticism or universal skepticism), the view that one cannot know anything at all.
Examples of local skepticism
Moral skepticism is the belief that moral knowledge is... | 0.770364 | 0.903047 | 0.695675 |
Most Affected People and Areas | Most Affected People and Areas, also known by its acronym MAPA, is a term that represents groups and territories disproportionately affected by climate change, such as women, indigenous communities, racial minorities, LGBTQIA+ people, young, older and poorer people and the Global South. The term and concept is intercon... | 0.76131 | 0.913341 | 0.695336 |
Scientific community metaphor | In computer science, the scientific community metaphor is a metaphor used to aid understanding scientific communities. The first publications on the scientific community metaphor in 1981 and 1982 involved the development of a programming language named Ether that invoked procedural plans to process goals and assertion... | 0.767027 | 0.906397 | 0.695231 |
Digital theology | Digital theology or cybertheology is the study of the relationship between theology and the digital technology.
Terminology
In Catholic discourse, the more dominant term has been cybertheology. There has also been the yearly Theocom symposium since 2012 at Santa Clara University, which has explored topics related to ... | 0.76238 | 0.911435 | 0.69486 |
Appropriation (sociology) | Appropriation in sociology is, according to James J. Sosnoski, "the assimilation of concepts into a governing framework...[the] arrogation, confiscation, [or] seizure of concepts." According to Tracy B Strong it contains the Latin root proprius, which, "carries the connotations not only of property, but also of proper,... | 0.763095 | 0.910248 | 0.694606 |
Polyethism | Polyethism is the term used for functional specialization of non-reproductive individuals in a colony of social organisms, particularly insects. Division of labour is considered a key aspect of eusociality and can be seen in a variety of forms. In some insects, there are distinct morphological differences among the ind... | 0.7641 | 0.909019 | 0.694581 |
Repent Amarillo | Repent Amarillo, also known as "God and Country" or "Last Front Evangelist", is a small Amarillo, Texas-based group which advocated for the spiritual mapping and targeting of specific local areas and venues in order to exorcise demons from those areas. Because of the group's alleged tactics and targeting of perceivably... | 0.761414 | 0.912212 | 0.694571 |
CrossCurrents | CrossCurrents is a quarterly academic journal published by the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (before 1990, it was published by Convergence). It has been published continuously since 1950, and is now published as a peer-reviewed, public-facing scholarly journal.
The journal began with the visio... | 0.771314 | 0.899366 | 0.693693 |
Ethics and religious culture | Ethics and religious culture (Éthique et culture religieuse) is a course taught in all primary and secondary schools in Quebec. It replaces the abolished subject of religious/moral education in these schools and is compulsory in all schools: private and public. The aim of the subject is to develop ethical thinking and ... | 0.769406 | 0.901513 | 0.693629 |
Religious ground motive | A religious ground motive (RGM) is a concept in the reformational philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd. In his book Roots of Western Culture Dooyeweerd identified four great frameworks or value-systems that have determined human interpretations of reality with formative power over Western culture. Three of these are dualist... | 0.777516 | 0.892066 | 0.693596 |
Rationalist humanism | Rationalist humanism, or rational humanism or rationalistic humanism, is one of the strands of Age of Enlightenment. It had its roots in Renaissance humanism, as a response to Middle Age religious integralism and obscurantism. Rationalist humanism tradition includes Tocqueville and Montesquieu, and in the 19th century,... | 0.760803 | 0.911043 | 0.693124 |
Moral und Hypermoral | Moral und Hypermoral. Eine pluralistische Ethik is a book about ethics by the German philosopher Arnold Gehlen, first published in 1969. It combines anthropology, behavioral science and sociology and identifies four interdependent forms of ethics: reciprocity, instinctive regulations, family-related ethical behaviour a... | 0.767064 | 0.903047 | 0.692695 |
Homology (sociology) | Homologies are "structural 'resonances'...between the different elements making up a socio-cultural whole." (Middleton 1990, p. 9)
Examples include Alan Lomax's cantometrics, which:
Distinguishes ten musical styles, dealing most fully with Eurasian and Old European styles. These are correlated with sexual permissivene... | 0.770495 | 0.898812 | 0.69253 |
Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World | Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World is a 2011 book by 14th Dalai Lama. It is about Secular ethics use in our everyday life. Those are ethics that can be used by both religious and non-religious people. There are many suggestions about getting rid of destructive emotions and helping other people. In this book ther... | 0.763276 | 0.907303 | 0.692523 |
Knowledge policy | Knowledge policies provide institutional foundations for creating, managing, and using organizational knowledge as well as social foundations for balancing global competitiveness with social order and cultural values. Knowledge policies can be viewed from a number of perspectives: the necessary linkage to technologica... | 0.776672 | 0.89139 | 0.692317 |
Jonathan Kvanvig | Jonathan Lee Kvanvig (born December 7, 1954) is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis.
Kvanvig has published extensively in areas such as epistemology, philosophy of religion, logic, and philosophy of language. Some of his books include Rationality and Reflection, The Value of Knowledge and th... | 0.762515 | 0.907739 | 0.692164 |
Lifewide learning | Lifewide learning (LWL) is a teaching strategy and an approach to learning and personal development that involves real contexts and authentic settings. The goal is to address different kinds of learning not covered in a traditional classroom. By including LWL with a traditional classroom, students are better equipped t... | 0.765564 | 0.903545 | 0.691722 |
Humanistic therapy | Humanistic therapy (also humanistic psychotherapy) is a portmanteau term for range of different types of talking therapies (as distinct from humanistic psychology that, instead of concentrating on what is presented as a problem focuses on helping one overcome difficulties with others in principle (long term) rather th... | 0.774713 | 0.892731 | 0.69161 |
Engaged spirituality | Engaged spirituality refers to the beliefs and practices of religious or spiritual people who actively engage in the world in order to transform it in ways consistent with their beliefs.
Overview
The term was inspired by engaged Buddhism, a concept and set of values developed by the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat... | 0.770286 | 0.89767 | 0.691462 |
Chronosophy | Chronosophy is the neologistic designation given by scholar Julius Thomas (J.T.) Fraser to "the interdisciplinary and normative study of time sui generis."
Overview
Etymology
Fraser derived the term from the Ancient Greek: χρόνος, chronos, "time" and σοφία, sophia, "wisdom". Chronosophia is thus defined as the "spec... | 0.764332 | 0.903047 | 0.690228 |
Overbelief | Overbelief (also written as over-belief) is a philosophical term for a belief adopted that requires more evidence than one presently has. It is also described as a kind of metaphysical belief ascribed with the status of speculative view that exceeds available evidence or evidencing reason. Generally, acts of overbelief... | 0.760625 | 0.907303 | 0.690118 |
Patchwork religion | In the sociology of religion patchwork religion indicates situations when individual or religious movement forms its own worldview from heterogeneous elements, taken from different religions or individual religious experience. Collected from these elements, this religious world view reminds of a patchwork quilt with a ... | 0.794881 | 0.868201 | 0.690117 |
Ronin Publishing | Ronin Publishing, Inc. is a small press in Berkeley, California, founded in 1983 and incorporated in 1985, which publishes books as tools for personal development, visionary alternatives, and expanded consciousness. The company's tagline is "Life Skills with Attitude!" In a 1996 Publishers Weekly profile, the company d... | 0.766811 | 0.899914 | 0.690064 |
Entention | Entention is a neologism coined by biological anthropologist Terrence Deacon in his 2011 book Incomplete Nature. The term is deliberately similar to the term intention, which has a long history of use in philosophy of mind, but was designed to have a broader scope. "Ententional" is an adjective that applies to the clas... | 0.763721 | 0.903545 | 0.690056 |
Patternism | Patternism is a method of comparing the teachings of the religions of the ancient Near East whereby the similarities between these religions are assumed to constitute an overarching pattern. Opponents of this approach have employed the term patternism as a pejorative. While supporters are unified in their belief that t... | 0.769533 | 0.896497 | 0.689884 |
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly | Religion & Ethics Newsweekly was an American weekly television news-magazine program which aired on PBS.
History and content
Premiering in 1997, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly was devoted to news of religion and spirituality, along with major ethical issues. The program explored the top moral questions facing the countr... | 0.760408 | 0.906397 | 0.689231 |
Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies | Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies (RMPS) is a national qualification subject offered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority. RMPS is offered at different levels and the course varies at each level.
Religious and moral education in non-denominational schools and religious education in Roman Catholic schools ... | 0.789739 | 0.872711 | 0.689215 |
Valentinian Exposition | A Valentinian Exposition is the second tractate from Codex XI of the Nag Hammadi Library. Less than half of the text has been preserved. The text explores the relationship between God, the created world, and humanity. It states that the material world is a shadow of the spiritual world and that humanity is a mixture of... | 0.765182 | 0.899914 | 0.688598 |
Mafatih al-hayat | Mafatih al-Hayat (, "keys to life") is a religious work written by Ayatollah Javadi Amoli intended to complete Mafatih al-Janan, a book by Sheikh Abbas Qummi.
Authors
The authors of Mafatih al-Hayat are a team of writers working at the Qom Seminary under Ayatollah Javadi Amoli.
Release
The book, which was published... | 0.76648 | 0.898244 | 0.688486 |
Communication Education | Communication Education is a journal of the National Communication Association published by Taylor & Francis. It is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research aimed at understanding the role of communication in teaching and learning across various spaces, structures, and interactions. The journ... | 0.76121 | 0.904034 | 0.68816 |
Veritism | Veritism was a socio-philosophical ideology promoted by the "Veritism Foundation" (apparently now defunct). It argues that humanity has been presented with no conclusive evidence lending credence to the existence of a specific deity, or supreme entity and thus has no justification for reaching any kind of conclusions o... | 0.769642 | 0.894029 | 0.688082 |
Normative religion | Normative religion describes the social boundaries of religious identity at a macro-level, particularly for the named world religions. It has a broader definition than theological orthodoxy, including all those commonly accepted within the religion as a social group of mutual identification, for example with connected ... | 0.79439 | 0.865792 | 0.687777 |
Cuisine in the early modern world | Cuisine in the early modern world varied through the location and the resources available. There are many factors that play a part into an area's cuisine, with a few being religion, location, and status. Diets across the early modern world varied throughout time and location. The most prominent religions in the early m... | 0.765157 | 0.898812 | 0.687732 |
Suzanne Newcombe | Suzanne Newcombe researches the modern history of yoga and new and minority religions. She states that she is particularly interested in "the interfaces between religion, health and healing." She is known in particular for her work on yoga for women and yoga in Britain.
Early life and education
Suzanne Newcombe grew ... | 0.760203 | 0.904518 | 0.687617 |
Mental health of Chinese students | According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Mental health is essential for individuals' well-being and functioning, encompassing cognitive abilities, emotional understanding, and interpersonal interactions. Students worldwide consider psychological well-being, happiness, and contentment as essential life values. ... | 0.762227 | 0.902031 | 0.687553 |
Dōkai | The is a Japanese new religion founded by Matsumura Kaiseki in 1907 which synthesizes aspects of Christian, Confucian, Daoist, and traditional Japanese thought. Its four main tenets are theism (Japanese: 信神), ethical cultivation (Japanese: 修徳), neighborly love (Japanese: 愛隣), and a belief in eternal life (Japanese: 永生... | 0.762381 | 0.901513 | 0.687297 |
Social mania | Social manias are mass movements which periodically sweep through societies. They are characterized by an outpouring of enthusiasm, mass involvement and millenarian goals. They are contagious social epidemics, and as such they should be differentiated from mania in individuals.
Social manias come in different sizes an... | 0.760586 | 0.903545 | 0.687224 |
Est: The Steersman Handbook | est: The Steersman Handbook, Charts of the Coming Decade of Conflict is a work of science fiction cast as a nonfictional study. Its author, credited as L. Clark Stevens, usually went by the name Leslie Stevens. Stevens has a long list of credits in the entertainment industry, having worked on, among other productions,... | 0.766005 | 0.897089 | 0.687175 |
Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith | Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, subtitled Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, is the academic publication of the American Scientific Affiliation.
Background
The ASA's original constitution provided two goals for the ASA: "(1) to promote and encourage the study of the relationship between the f... | 0.766506 | 0.896497 | 0.68717 |
Prose Works Other than Science and Health | Prose Works other than Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, sometimes called Prose Works other than Science and Health or simply Prose Works, is a single-volume compendium of the major works of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, outside of her main work, Science and Health with Key to the Scri... | 0.766706 | 0.895892 | 0.686886 |
Rethinking Multiculturalism | Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory is a 2002 non-fiction book by the British political theorist Bhikhu Parekh and published by Harvard University Press. It creates and defines multiculturalism in the form of political theory as well as political practice in the modern era, being based... | 0.774322 | 0.886301 | 0.686283 |
Hylotheism | Hylotheism (from Gk. hyle, 'matter' and theos, 'God') is the belief that matter and God are the same, so in other words, defining God as matter.
The American Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod defines hylotheism is "Theory equating matter with God or merging one into the other" which it states as "Synonym for pantheism* a... | 0.761069 | 0.901513 | 0.686113 |
Sociology of morality | Sociology of morality is the branch of sociology that deals with the sociological investigation of the nature, causes, and consequences of people's ideas about morality. Sociologists of morality ask questions on why particular groups of people have the moral views that they do, and what are the effects of these views o... | 0.760198 | 0.90254 | 0.686109 |
Values Modes | Values Modes is a segmentation tool in the United Kingdom, based on the British Values Survey.
Background
The Values Modes model was created in 1973, by Pat Dade and Les Higgins. The tool, which is owned by the company Cultural Dynamics, is used strategically in marketing and political campaigns. It divides the popul... | 0.762336 | 0.899914 | 0.686037 |
Värdegrund | Värdegrund (Swedish: "foundation of values") is a Swedish concept first defined in the late 1990s to describe a common ethical foundation for collectives. Examples of collectives are nations, institutions, organizations, and social movements. In Sweden, all schools have to comply with a common ethical foundation. It in... | 0.781919 | 0.876779 | 0.685569 |
The Marriage of Sense and Soul | The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion is a 1998 book by American author Ken Wilber. It reasons that by adopting contemplative (e.g. meditative) disciplines related to Spirit and commissioning them within a context of broad science, that "the spiritual, subjective world of ancient wisdom" coul... | 0.760183 | 0.900986 | 0.684915 |
The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas | The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas is a book by the Finnish philosopher Edvard Westermarck, published between 1906 and 1908. One of his main works, it is a monumental study and a classic in its field, though now antiquated.
Summary
Westermarck, in the preface to The Origin and Development of the Moral Idea... | 0.768887 | 0.89069 | 0.68484 |
Heracles' Bow | Heracles' Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law is a collection of ten essays, written by James Boyd White in 1985, that examine forensic rhetoric as it creates community, as an example of what White calls constitutive rhetoric. White supported the Law and Literature Movement. This movement was in contras... | 0.761455 | 0.899366 | 0.684827 |
Synthetic psychological environment | In a synthetic environment, synthetic psychological environment (SPE) (or rules of behavior) refers to the representation (i.e. modeling) of influences to individuals and groups as a result of culture (e.g. demography, law, religion)).
Synonyms
SPE is known by many names including:
Cultural factors
Cultural modelin... | 0.769366 | 0.889283 | 0.684184 |
Raison oblige theory | In psychology, certain seemingly-maladaptive human behaviors superficially appear to be attempts to confirm one's own self views (i.e. self-esteem, self-concept, or self-knowledge), even when this self-view is negative or inaccurate. Raison oblige theory (ROT) instead explains these behaviors as consequences of a rati... | 0.760147 | 0.899914 | 0.684067 |
Confession inscriptions of Lydia and Phrygia | Confession inscriptions of Lydia and Phrygia are Roman-era Koine Greek religious steles from these historical regions of Anatolia (then part of Asia and Galatia provinces), dating mostly to the second and third centuries.
The new element that appears, the public confession of sin and the redemption through offerings, ... | 0.762019 | 0.89767 | 0.684042 |
Modality (theology) | Modality, in Protestant and Catholic Christian theology, is the structure and organization of the local or universal church. In Catholic theology, the modality is the universal Catholic church. In Protestant theology, the modality is variously described as either the universal church (that is, all believers) or the lo... | 0.768289 | 0.889283 | 0.683226 |
Microecology | Microecology means microbial ecology or ecology of a microhabitat. It is a large field that includes many topics such as: evolution, biodiversity, exobiology, ecology, bioremediation, recycling, and food microbiology. It can also refer to a hybrid urban network at the scale of the neighbourhood. It is the study of the ... | 0.761006 | 0.897089 | 0.68269 |
Knowledge and Politics | Knowledge and Politics is a 1975 book by philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger. In it, Unger criticizes classical liberal doctrine, which originated with European social theorists in the mid-17th century and continues to exercise a tight grip over contemporary thought, as an untenable system of ideas, res... | 0.766453 | 0.89069 | 0.682671 |
Integration of faith and learning | The integration of faith and learning is a focus of many religious institutions of higher education. The broad concept encompasses the idea that the Christian worldview, faith, and practices of the student should be deeply connected within the learning experience. That said, different educators build their own visions ... | 0.775349 | 0.879602 | 0.681999 |
Colloquy (religious) | A religious colloquy is a meeting to settle differences of doctrine or dogma, also called a colloquium (meeting, discussion), as in the historical Colloquy at Poissy, and like the legal colloquy, most often with a certain degree of judging involved. Religious colloquies are relatively common as a means to avoid calling... | 0.766683 | 0.889283 | 0.681798 |
Knowledge building community | A Knowledge Building Community (KBC) is a community in which the primary goal is knowledge creation rather than the construction of specific products or the completion of tasks. This notion is fundamental in Knowledge building theory. If knowledge is not realized for a community then we do not have knowledge building.... | 0.760263 | 0.896497 | 0.681574 |
SPICES (Scouting) | The SPICES (Social, Physical, Intellectual, Character/Creativity, Emotional and Spiritual) are learning objectives, or areas of personal development explored through scouting programmes in a number of countries. The acronym was created during the development of the ONE Programme scheme by Scouting Ireland, but has sinc... | 0.760523 | 0.895892 | 0.681347 |
Disclosing New Worlds | Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity (1997) is a book co-authored by Fernando Flores, Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Spinosa (a consultant philosopher specializing in commercial innovation). It is a philosophical proposal intended to restore or energize democracy b... | 0.769315 | 0.885528 | 0.68125 |
One World: The Ethics of Globalisation | One World: The Ethics of Globalisation is a 2002 book about globalization by the philosopher Peter Singer. In the book, Singer applies moral philosophy to four issues: the impact of human activity on the atmosphere; international trade regulation (and the World Trade Organization); the concept of national sovereignty... | 0.760111 | 0.895892 | 0.680977 |
Relationship aspect | In psychology and sociology, relationship aspect refers to the quality of interpersonal cooperation in terms of intuitive, emotional and social inner relatedness, which makes people feel connected outside of the content aspect.
Openness, honesty, reliability, emotional intelligence and other key skills are required to... | 0.763897 | 0.89139 | 0.68093 |
Wren Blackberry | A children's fiction author, Wren Blackberry emerged with the publication of the Métrico Mesh series. Much of her work attempts to incorporate educational curriculum standards, lightly touching on several scientific and historical subjects. A teacher by profession, Wren Blackberry worked in higher education in the Unit... | 0.775378 | 0.877745 | 0.680584 |
MuSIASEM | MuSIASEM or Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism, is a method of accounting used to analyse socio-ecosystems and to simulate possible patterns of development. It is based on maintaining coherence across scales and different dimensions (e.g. economic, demographic, energetic) of quantitati... | 0.76004 | 0.895279 | 0.680448 |
The Heathen in His Blindness... | "The Heathen in his Blindness...": Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion by S. N. Balagangadhara, first published in 1994 by E. J. Brill, is a book about religion, culture and cultural difference. Manohar Publishers published a second, hardcover edition of the book in 2005, and a third, paperback, edition in 2012.... | 0.767612 | 0.884732 | 0.679131 |
Organic (model) | Organic describes forms, methods and patterns found in living systems such as the organisation of cells, to populations, communities, and ecosystems.
Typically organic models stress the interdependence of the component parts, as well as their differentiation. Other properties of organic models include:
the growth, li... | 0.764415 | 0.887823 | 0.678665 |
Charismania | Charismania is a term used in criticism of the charismatic movement and the prosperity gospel. It is commonly used by more conservative Christians and Evangelicalism. It criticizes and compares what the charismatics believe are gifts of the holy spirit to mania or behavior characteristic of mental illness.
External li... | 0.762528 | 0.88999 | 0.678643 |
Social identity complexity | The concept of Social Identity Complexity (Roccas and Brewer, 2002) is a theoretical construct that refers to an individual's subjective representation of the interrelationships among his or her multiple group identities.
Social identity complexity reflects the degree of overlap perceived to exist between groups of w... | 0.768841 | 0.882241 | 0.678303 |
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