The Meaning of Life
Asghar Ali; Syed Mahdi Hoseini; Hamid Rezania Shirazi
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SUBJECT & OBJECTIVES: The emergence of the epistemic system of modernism and its epistemological requirements has caused Eastern societies, including the Islamic world, conflicts such as the conflict between religion and development and efforts to resolve it. This research aims to explain the pattern ...
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SUBJECT & OBJECTIVES: The emergence of the epistemic system of modernism and its epistemological requirements has caused Eastern societies, including the Islamic world, conflicts such as the conflict between religion and development and efforts to resolve it. This research aims to explain the pattern of the new Islamic civilization by emphasizing the views of Muẓaffar ‘Iqbāl from the book Islam and Science. Also, most Muslim thinkers view the relationship between Islam and its efficiency in new scientific topics, including development, as positive and admirable.METHOD & FINDING: Using the method of qualitative analysis and referring to his books, essays, and other thinkers, it has been found that the Islamic scientific tradition began at the time of the Prophet. Additionally, Islamic scientists have continued this movement throughout history with ups and downs and have rejected the discussion of conflict that has been raised by Westerners, especially Goldzihar's theory which denied the connection between Islam and science.CONCLUSION: According to Muẓaffar ‘Iqbāl, Islam is a comprehensive religion and these views and scientific theories are always changing and can be modified. Therefore, he does not consider them comparable to Islamic texts. In Muẓaffar ‘Iqbāl 's view, the Islamic tradition, relying on the approach of complementarity, can create and guide a comprehensive civilization and provide a pattern of progress in the new era.
Religion and Life
David Kibirango; Dr. Syed Hossein Sajid
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SUBJECT & OBJECTIVES: The enhancement and progress of Uganda's higher education system necessitate a foundational integration of religion and spirituality, the vital components that uphold the interests and dignity of Ugandan citizens. This research aims to scrutinize the profound effects of a religious ...
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SUBJECT & OBJECTIVES: The enhancement and progress of Uganda's higher education system necessitate a foundational integration of religion and spirituality, the vital components that uphold the interests and dignity of Ugandan citizens. This research aims to scrutinize the profound effects of a religious and spiritual-based higher education system on both individuals and the broader societal framework. METHOD & FINDING: Employing a descriptive-analytical approach, this study conducts a comprehensive investigation into Uganda's higher education system through case studies and document analysis. Additionally, it explores the multifaceted dimensions of religion and spirituality within this context. The findings indicate a positive correlation between implementing a holistic religious and spiritual lifestyle and its constructive impact on the personal and communal aspects of Ugandan citizens' lives within the higher education sphere. CONCLUSION: Uganda's higher education system faces challenges that significantly impact individual and societal prosperity, leading to widespread criticisms and skepticism. Consequently, it has garnered low scores both locally and internationally. The cultivation of a lifestyle guided by religious and spiritual principles such as freedom, dignity, equality, and justice demonstrates a beneficial influence on the lives of Ugandans. Therefore, integrating religion and spirituality within higher education is a potential avenue to positively transform individual trajectories and societal paradigms, fostering the emergence of independent, esteemed, and morally grounded Ugandan citizens.
Religion and Life
Dr. Hamid Rezania Shirazi (Iran)
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SUBJECT AND OBJECTIVES: The question of whether religion is compatible with science has occupied a prominent place in the discussions of the nineteenth century and some thinkers hold the view that science and religion are incompatible. In contrast to this view, those who believe that religion and science ...
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SUBJECT AND OBJECTIVES: The question of whether religion is compatible with science has occupied a prominent place in the discussions of the nineteenth century and some thinkers hold the view that science and religion are incompatible. In contrast to this view, those who believe that religion and science cannot be opposed to each other, argue that they are two aspects of the facts of life; One aspect touches the soul while the other indicates material advancement.METHOD AND FINDING: This paper tends to deal descriptively and analytically with the relation between science and religion from the view point of Hans Kong as one of the present theologians. Considering the main purpose of religions, the relationship among ethics and religion and modern science is stricter. In other word, religions have come to improve the moral activities in human’s life, and they have to lead him to goodness and happiness; Because science cannot bring the value for man but religion can. The ethics of religion can solve many problems of mankind; For example purification to complete goodness and bring new horizons of human’s perfection. Religion gives peace to the scientifically advanced and worried society.CONCLUSION: Therefore, in this paper, an attempt was made to examine and analyze the main points of Hans Kung viewpoint of compatibility and alignment in the relationship between science and religion, and other areas such as the beginning of the universe, creation of the world, and etc.
Religion and Natural Disasters- Coronavirus
Dr. Tahere Mohseni (Iran); Dr. Khadijeh Ahmadi Bighash (Iran)
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the descriptive descriptive causes of youth's deviance and deviation from religion, and ways to get out of it based on verses and narratives. The results of this study indicate that this problem is not caused by the essence of religion, but rather by causes such ...
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the descriptive descriptive causes of youth's deviance and deviation from religion, and ways to get out of it based on verses and narratives. The results of this study indicate that this problem is not caused by the essence of religion, but rather by causes such as inadequate presentation of religion, incompatibility of religion with reason and science, poverty, psychosis, environment, epistemic weakness, and so on. The Holy Quran as a comprehensive set of scriptures and traditions of the Prophet (peace be upon him) has offered many solutions such as strengthening the faith, purifying the environment, careful selection of comrades, and so on.
Religion and Cyberspace
Dr. Azam Moghadas (Iran)
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Religion is a historical and contextual matter and has found special features in every period of human life, corresponding to the developments and events that man has experienced; Of course, this does not mean the transformation and the heart of the essence of religion, but it does mean that the context ...
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Religion is a historical and contextual matter and has found special features in every period of human life, corresponding to the developments and events that man has experienced; Of course, this does not mean the transformation and the heart of the essence of religion, but it does mean that the context of presenting religion and religious values, the form of offering religion and the means of achieving religious goals have changed. At present, the development of new information and communication technologies has provided a new space for the life of religion and the religious community, which requires careful awareness and comprehensive planning to use the many opportunities of the new space and stay safe from its threats. While acknowledging the existence of a powerful platform for anti-religious and anti-religious activities in cyberspace, this study has studied the capacities of cyberspace in promoting religious beliefs, teachings and values in the form of social networks through a documentary study.
Religion and Cyberspace
Ionut Cristian Baru (Romania)
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Even before modern technological era, there was a close relationship between religious education and technology. Religion has helped many people to understand new technologies and technologies have led to new understandings of religion, and even new forms of religion. Religious education can focus on ...
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Even before modern technological era, there was a close relationship between religious education and technology. Religion has helped many people to understand new technologies and technologies have led to new understandings of religion, and even new forms of religion. Religious education can focus on a variety of sacred concerns including myth, ritual, symbol, scripture, doctrine and experience, and furthermore as Jeff Astley (Astley, 1994) says in a context can and does ecompass indoctrination, personal formation, reasons and emotions. However these concerns tend to fall into two general categories the ethical one (or relational) and transcendental one. Nowadays a variety of video games explicitly aim toward religion. Video games researchers note that within video games, religion tends to suffer from a narrative and procedural incongruity. For example Michael Walthemathe suggests that video games provide a narrative and procedural platform for playful identity formation and ethical reflection, Ian Bogost (Bogost, 2007, p. 288) observes that religious video games are undermining their religious aims by adopting the conventions of mainstream video games genres without regard for their implicit procedural rhetoric. Also Harry J. Brown (Brown, 2008, pp. 104 – 107) notes that along with the promotion of an ethical concern for the weak, video games promote a reactive ethic of vigilantism and violence against all members of a given social class or oppositional alignement. So if video games once struggled for legitimacy as a cultural product, today the business of video games is booming, and increasingly the art of video games is turning to religious themes as not just inspiration but as central plot elements. We find moral decisions, invented religions, the power to create and experience virtual religious spaces and much more outcomes like these. Through a consideration of a list of popular video games this article proposes to show how video games teach their players the new gospel of cyberspace, where they can be what they want without effort and major consequences for the real life.
Philosophical and Theological Knowledge
Researchers Committee The Site of the Pious (Iran- Iraq)
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God created creatures and breathed into man from his soul (and I breathed into him from my soul) and everything in itself goes back to its original (indeed to God and to Him we return). He created him and then guided (or who created and created * and who was destined and guided) even though happiness ...
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God created creatures and breathed into man from his soul (and I breathed into him from my soul) and everything in itself goes back to its original (indeed to God and to Him we return). He created him and then guided (or who created and created * and who was destined and guided) even though happiness for a person is a real matter, and these innate Sunnahs which are moral matters, necessitate his movement and his path to the position of true perfection. The desired perfection will not be his share. And that the rulings and laws of Sharia that are based on the innate nature are legal rulings and their status is based on the consideration of the street. If something is permissible in one particular Sharia and forbidden in another.
