Comparative Religion

Dreams, feeling, myth, and intuition are creations of the right brain that are increasingly undervalued in our modern world as the result of a hyperfocus on left-brained analytical activity. Humankind collectively suffers due to this loss. Through focused attention and documenta…

Mythobiogenesis seeks the origin of myth, religion, and ritual not only in the vastness of human history, but in the confining nucleus of a human cell. This place of origin is by no means obvious and we refer to it simply as a “trysting place,” the secret rendezvous of mind and …

Can there be peace among religions? Is it really possible to achieve a peaceful co-existence of diverse religious adherents in a society? What if one’s vision of peace and understanding of justice are deeply rooted in a Christian tradition and therefore fundamentally different f…

This thesis will examine the MT Sinai Arabic MS 151 and its commentary focusing on the Epistle to the Hebrews to illuminate that it has an apologetic characteristic and missional purpose. The MT Sinai Arabic MS 151 is the oldest known Arabic translation of the Bible containing P…

Christian fulfillment of the Great Commission following Jesus’s and Paul’s model prioritized gospel outreach to Jewish people. This study first analyzed biblical-theological literature, social science literature, and practical theology literature, seeking guidance for Jewish out…

Awḥad al-Dīn Ḥāmid b. Abī l-Faḫr Kirmānī (561–635 h./1165–1238) is an eminent ṣūfī, whose writings – in comparison with his major contemporaries – are not investigated fully in terms of their literary achievement as well as their theological, philosophical, and esoteric dimensio…

Both Christian and Muslim women practice hospitality. This shared value of hospitality can open opportunities for friendship and faith conversations, but Muslims and Christians often remain isolated from one another in the same neighborhoods due to both real and perceived differ…

Though mediation and conflict resolution are relatively new fields in academia, resolving conflicts is far from anything new. The World’s Religious traditions have constructively negotiated through ancient zones of conflict in their religious communities for thousands of years. …

This dissertation develops a missiological comparative theology through Neo-Calvinist and Sunni Reformist thought concerning the following question: Can Christians and Muslims maintain exclusivist soteriological claims of their respective traditions while maintaining a posture o…

Metafizik, esas itibariyle insanın kendi varlığına dair sorduğu aslî sorulara cevap bulma çabasıdır. İnsanın varlığının nedeni, amacı ve nihayeti gibi meseleler hakkında pek çok metafizik model geliştirilmiştir. Ne var ki Modern dönemin başlamasıyla eş zamanlı olarak İslam meden…

Oryantalizmin İslâmi ilimlere yaptığı katkı inkâr edilemez bir gerçektir. Bu bağlamda tasavvufa da büyük katkısı olmuştur. Fakat bu durum, oryantalistlerin tasavvufun kaynağı konusundaki muhtelif yanılgılarını da beraberinde getirmiştir. Zira Margaret Smith gibi bazı müsteşrikle…

In the classical Western philosophical tradition, wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance are considered to be the "four cardinal virtues." Of this list of virtues only one, courage, or andreia in Greek, was derived from the same root (andr) that the Greeks used for the English…

The theme of death and life is a hermeneutical key to First Isaiah, although it has not generally been recognized as such. Despite the repeated references to death and life in Isaiah 1–39, no study exists that synthetically discusses the relevant passages in that corpus. This st…

This study compares the concepts of salvation in African Traditional Religion and Christianity. It traces the predicament of man in the two traditions. The work gathers data from selected theologians and draws views from other writers as well, to present what each tradition iden…

In a milieu of scarcity and inequality, what forms does moral, spiritual and material aspiration take? How do these aspirations express both antagonism and forms of relatedness between potentially hostile neighboring groups? How do religious ideals, such as the self-limitations …

This dissertation explores ways in which Jewish, Christian, and Islamic authorities define and fortify the boundaries of their communities through the articulation of foreign food restrictions. Laws relating to the involvement of religious outsiders in food preparation and share…

This study introduces and analyzes six works of Muslim jurisprudence (works of takhrij al-furu` `ala al-us[dotbelow]ul ), which address the interrelation of theoretical and practical legal reasoning in Islam. The practical aspect of Islamic law provides evaluations of human acti…

This dissertation is an inquiry into the nature of the Deity in view of human relationships. Human relationships exist and are definitive of what it means to exist as a human. In this sense, human relating is an inherent aspect of the experience of humanity, i.e., they are inesc…