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The concern of this work is with developing an alternative to standard categories in theology and philosophy, especially in terms of how they deal with nature. Avoiding the polemics of much contemporary reflection on nature, it shows how we are connected to nature through the unconscious and its unique way of reading and processing signs. Spinoza's key distinction between natura naturans and natura naturata serves as the governing framework for the treatise. Suggestions are made for a post-Christian way of understanding religion. Robert S. Corrington's work represents the first sustained attempt to bring together the fields of semiotics, depth-psychology, pragmaticism, and a post-Monotheistic theology of nature. Its focus is on how signification functions in human and non-human orders of infinite nature. Our connection with the infinite is described in detail, especially as it relates to the use of sign systems

This article examines student social movements with a focus of student activities in extra-campus organizations, especially the Islamic Students Association (HMI) and the Indonesian Christian Students' Movement (GMKI) at the campus of the Pattimura University, State College of Islamic Studies Of Ambon and the State College of Protestant Christian Studies Ambon, which aims to describe forms of student social movements in responding to social issues and development in the city of Ambon and Maluku after the conflict. The data of this study were collected using a qualitative method approach through observation, interviews and document study. Therefore, this study is qualitative, the data were analyzed qualitatively and presented descriptively. This study found that first, cadres or members of HMI and GMKI always strive to master public spaces on campus through the distribution of their cadres to occupy strategic positions in the executive bodies or the student senate, even the seniors who have become lecturers in structural positions on campus, which in turn can affect campus policies. Second, the activities in the movement of HMI and GMKI have similarities in terms of responding to social issues, by paying attention to a few aspects including socio-religious issues, local political issues and post-conflict community development.

Preface / Angelo Cardinal Scola -- Introduction / Antonio López -- Part I. Perceiving otherness, understanding difference. Recognition and culture : toward a model of intercultural subjectivities / Francesco Botturi -- The encounter and emergence of human nature / Carmine Di Martino -- We need a "relational reason" for different cultures to meet and build a common world / Pierpaolo Donati -- The link between "fundamentalism" and "relativism" / Costantino Esposito -- Retrieval of otherness in a technological culture / Antonio López -- Part II. Ordering social life. Human rights and cultural plurality : a possible path / Marta Cartabia -- Multiculturalism and ethically controversial questions : what form should regulation take? / Lorenza Violini -- The Abraham model of multicultural integration : Ger and Toshav / Joseph H. H. Weiler -- Part III. The recognition of God as the ultimate ground. Church, modernity, and multiculturalism : an extemporaneous reflection / Francisco Javier Martinez Fernández -- Interculturality and Christian mission in today's society / Massimo Borghesi -- War and the American difference : a theological assessment / Stanley Hauerwas -- Multiculturalism in Britain : the case of the recent debate over Sharia / John Milbank -- Knowing the truth through witness : the Christian faith in the context of interreligious dialogue / Javier Prades -- Multiculturalism and civil community inside the liberal state : truth and (religious) freedom / David L. Schindler

Background:Spiritual issues are rarely addressed by psychiatric institutions in daily routine practice.Aims:To report the prevalence of, and factors associated with, inpatients' acceptance of religious assistance in a psychiatric hospital.Methods:All patients evaluated by the religious assistance service in a psychiatric hospital were included. Patients admitted were asked about their need for religious assistance and were assessed on several religious aspects. Additional information was collected from patients' hospital charts. A comparison between those who accepted the religious assistance and those who did not was performed.Results:Most of the 213 patients evaluated requested religious assistance (85.0%), including those that reported having no religion (79.1%). Patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia ( p = .010) and lower intrinsic religiousness ( p = .002) tended to request less religious assistance. More than 80% of patients requested assistance based on religious traditions other than their own.Conclusion:Most psychiatric inpatients were willing to participate in religious assistance sessions, even those without formal religious affiliations. Patients with lower intrinsic religiosity and schizophrenia tended to request less assistance. We believe the findings of this study can serve to foster discussion on whether psychiatric hospitals should provide a structured religious care service.

The recent growth and interest in Islamic financehas left many business CEOs, students,and managers around the world without an insideview of Islamic management-until now.This book offers an Islamic perspective on businessethics, marketing, leadership, and humanresource management, and the author explainsit all with a true inside understanding.The author also includes insight into theIslamic religion and how that affects businessand overall management. From a personal, firsthandexperience and perspective, the authorprovides an authentic picture of Islamic management.This book includes models

8. Making the Ground Put Forth Grass: The Relationship Between Climate and VegetationClimate and Vegetation; Climate-Vegetation Relationships in a Changing World; Concluding Comments; 9. Feeding the Lions: The Conservation of Biological Diversity on a Changing Planet; On the Conservation of the Bright and Beautiful, Big and Dangerous; The Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene; Conserving Diversity on a Changing Planet; Concluding Comments; 10. Making Weather and Influencing Climate: Human Engineering of the Earth; Making Weather; Geoengineering: Climate Modification.

"The chapters in this book largely covers the concerns of religious practices, destination attractiveness, motivational components of the pilgrims, pilgrimage tourism sustainability, technological intervention, religious events, fairs, festivals, and post-pandemic approaches towards pilgrimage tourism revival"--

This article substantiates the possibility of using the material of temple architecture in studies of religious perceptions of man. In studying the religious teachings of man, we rely on the religious anthropology of K. I. Nikonov. We also used the methodology of L. Jones's "hermeneutics of sacred architecture" and A. Corben's temenology to study temple structures and sacred spaces. Our approach allowed us to explore believers' understanding of temple architecture as a self-understanding. It has been shown that temple architecture can be used to reconstruct the history of religious teachings on man, as well as to deepen philosophical knowledge of the essence, structure, and basic aspects of believers' understanding of themselves.

Introduction :Migration and public discourse in world Christianity /Afe Adogame,Raimundo Barreto,Wanderley P. da Rosa --Religious identities and transnational religious practices of second-generation Ghanaian migrants in Amsterdam /Edmond Akwasi Agyeman,Justice Richard Kwabena Owusu Kyei --Migrations and religious configuration among "Evangelicals" in Latin America's northern triangle in the first decade of the twenty-first century /Eduardo Albuquerque --Transnationalism, religious participation, and civic responsibility among African immigrants in North America /Moses Biney --Migrating theopolitics : the effect of undocumented parishioners on the pastoral theology of Latin American Evangelicals in the United States /Joāo Chaves --Displaced continuity : Juche, Christianity, and subjectivity of North Korean migrants /Shalon Park --Identity, religion, and resistance of Russian people in Brazil /Sonia Maria de Freitas --When women leave : examining the intersection of family, faith and personal development in the lives of Afro-Caribbean women in New York city /Janice A. McLean-Farrell --Storied people : the intergenerational power of story in the lives of immigrants /Christine J. Hong --"Speak to me, Lord" : seeking God's intervention in times of duress among Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town /Henrietta M. Nyamnjoh --From "neighbourhood" to "proximity" : an opportunity for human fulfilment /Fabio Baggio --Xenophilia or xenophobia : toward a theology of migration /Luis N. Rivera-Pagán --A people of God who remembers : theological reflections on a "refugee crisis" /Gioacchino Campese --Central American migration as the way of the cross : Ignacio Ellacuría's notion of the "crucified peoples" for theological reframing of the migrant experience /Francisco Pelaez-Diaz --Zumbi of the Pentecostals : migrations and Pentecostal modulations observed at the Zumbi dos Palmares settlement in Campos dos Goytacazes /Fabio Py --The diaspora of Brazilian Pentecostalism /David Mesquiati de Oliveira.

Aus Kirchenbüchern erfaßte Personen, Identifikation der Personen über
deren Namen, Angaben zum Ehepartner, Anzahl der Heiraten,Geburten je
Ehe und tatsächliche Anzahl Kinder, Stand der Kinder (ehelich, Zwilling,
etc.), Konfession, Geschlecht, Geburtsdatum, Todesdatum und Todesregion
(teilweise Todesursache), Berufsangaben, Heiratsangaben,
Eheklassifikation (Erstehe, Zweitehe), Angaben zu Besitzständen
(Grundbuch 1740 Angaben in Ruten).

Baseless stereotypes in our everyday interactions are persistent and troubling, especially when directed against economically disadvantaged groups. Past research has identified a relationship between fundamental and or conservative religious beliefs and the acceptance of stereotypes. The research community does not know however what practices or aspects of these types of religions correlate with stereotype acceptance. This study was designed to look at three dimensions of fundamental religiosity: frequency of prayer, political orientation, and an individual's perception of their own spirituality to find out if there is any relationship between these different dimensions and the acceptance of stereotypes towards one such group, Native Americans. College students from the University of Montana took part in a study in which they were asked to give personal information about themselves regarding their religiosity and religious background. After working on a cooperative task with a (fictitious) Native American partner, participants were asked questions about their perceptions of Native Americans, including commonly held stereotypes, perceptions of economic inequalities, and guilt over inequality. I found that frequency of prayer had a weak negative relationship to perceptions of stereotypes. Political orientation and self-perception of spirituality had negligible relationships with stereotype acceptance. I suggest that prayer and spirituality measure very different aspects of religious beliefs. This is the first known sociological study to examine the relationship between religiosity and perceptions of Native Americans. Not only are the results valuable to sociologists interested in combating stereotypes, but also to religious groups striving to teach acceptance and diversity.