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 […]
Hinduism consists of the religious beliefs and rituals indigenous to India which are not Buddhism or Jainism, and are followed and practiced by more than a billion people today. Given […]
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, […]
The pre-Socratic intellectual tradition is thought to have begun with Thales of Miletus of the Ionian school. There are two other pre-Socratic schools: the Italians and Athenians. The Italian philosophers, […]
The pre-Socratic philosophers were thinkers within the Western intellectual tradition (mostly) preceding the life Socrates (c. 469 – c. 399 BC) living in Ionia (coast of modern day Turkey), Italy, […]
Who was Confucius? Confucius, the founder of Confucianism (see Golden Age of Chinese Philosophy), was born into the class of Shi (which lay between the aristocracy and the common people) […]
This post responds in the negative to the question posed above, and contends in favour of academic consensus that the transmission process of the New Testament/gospel manuscripts is quite reliable […]
“Sophist” refers to a number of intellectuals in the 5th century BC representing a school of thought arising out of an intellectual impasse reached between the Ionian and Italian pre-Socratic […]
Many historians and philosophers will claim that of all the Ancient Greek philosophers Socrates (468-399 BC) is the most recognizable. He stands in as the symbolic figure of the philosopher […]
This series examines hegemonic masculinities within South African racial and cultural groups. See black hegemonic masculinities. Afrikaans traditional hegemonic masculinity has a particularly checkered history due to its pillar concepts […]
