This is a summary of Professor Gavin Flood’s insightful article Dwelling on the Borders: Self, Text and World (1). Flood is the Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at Oxford University. […]
Vernon Bates views Christian apologetics as legitimization through a strategic articulation of legitimating formulas devised to counter threats to the religious person’s universe, and the attempt to reach a compromise and/or correlation […]
Title: A Three Worlds of the Text Engagement with the Story of Moses and the Shepherd from Rumi’s Mathnawi, Rumi’s Popularity within the United States, and Concerns. Introduction Evidence suggests two major […]
Scholar David Chidester’s theory of symbolic exchange provides a useful framework for conceptualizing religious apologetics as the contestation of sacred symbols, their ownership, and alienation. It is also a successful methodology used […]
As someone one who favours working through source materials on persons of ancient history, I have recently noted my pleasure at the earliness of the gospel sources for the ministry of Christ […]
Sundays are for personal reflection, and I have indeed being reflecting. My apologies to readers for the obvious lack of content being released on this blog site over the last two or […]
I have been reading through a lot of history recently, not only for my courses in religious studies but also out of personal interest, and I have discovered that few things are […]
There is much within these several readings a paper such as this would like to reflect on, particularly given my interests in post-colonial and feminist liberationist theories of religion. However, this paper […]
[Published 11/22/2016. Updated and Revised: 2/8/2019] In 2016 I had the opportunity to chat with Elijah Stephens. Stephens is a film maker from the U.S. who, at the time, was filming a […]
Why are so many religious (and irreligious) people ignorant of the reasons they believe what they do? How many people in the church, if asked for the reasons why they hold to […]
