The term ‘religious pluralism’ has been emerged as a result of interconnection and intersection between various ideologies, cultures, and religious affiliations among humankind. It is a theological concept that celebrates plurality, diversity, and coexistence of religions in whi…
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A common challenge of Buddhism and Pyrrhonism is to overcome dogmatic beliefs by avoiding rejecting or accepting a set of beliefs and optimizing the ability to search for truth. In this dissertation, I investigate these two approaches from different traditions. On the one hand, …
The traditional Chinese and modernized Gregorian calendars represent vastly different ontics of time and have been framed by the Chinese government as being in intractable, existential conflict with one another. "The time of modernity" in general is regularly described as being …
This study is an attempt to contribute to the existing efforts in finding appropriate methodological approaches for studying African religions. It utilizes al-Faruqi’s methodology of studying religion to study the Faith of Unity religion. It begins by offering an in-depth analys…
The idea of the inextricable incompatibility of Christianity and Islam, created in the Middle Ages and maintained through Orientalism, became preserved behind the glass and in the collections of museums. Originally formulated as motivators for a land grab, Frankish notions of hy…
Though systems regulating purity and pollution are found in almost every culture and across historical time periods, and though the similarities among the purity systems of different cultures have been noticed, the field of comparative religion has failed to develop sophisticate…
The Many Faces of God was an interfaith education experience for lay Christians introducing them to the Christian theologies of the religions as well as to the basic beliefs and tenets of five world religions. The students in the course studied Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
The cosmic mystery of Mary draws attention to what the Roman Catholic Church celebrates as her heavenly reign, an aspect of which is the proliferation of Marian apparitions and manifestations around the world particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries. This dissertation undersc…
The qur’ānic portrayals of the nativity, found primarily in Sūrat Maryam (Q 19.15-32) and Sūrat Āl-‘Imrān (Q 3.42-47), differ in cardinal ways from the accounts of the canonical Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Scholars long ago demonstrated that the uniqueness of qur’ānic depiction…
ملخص: يهدف هذا البحث المعنون بــ (الآخر في النصوص اليهودية المقدسة)، إلى إجلاء صورة الآخر في النصوص اليهودية المقدسة، والمقصود بالآخر في هذا البحث، الإنسان المختلف دينيا بشكل عام. وبالنظر إلى مفهوم الآخر نجده–بصورة عامة- مفهوم كلى يتسع مدلوله لغوياً لكل ما هو غير الذات، وغير الذا…
This study examines the notion of Monotheism in the Zoroastrian religion in the thought of al-Shahristani, by carefully analyzing the arguments he presents and comparing them to those of scholars and philosophers – both classical and contemporary – who studied the Zoroastrian, i…
Modern Arabic books on Comparative Religion say about Hinduism that the Hindus worship and revere cows considering them as deities. Most Arab writers mention it as an important characteristic of Hinduism. But is it the reality and real status of cows in Hinduism? Do Hindus reall…