Shalem Shabazi,acknowledged and revered as the greatest Yemenite poet is an unknown figure to the English-speaking world.His name appears in no general encyclopedia.His works are not to be found in any general literar...
Mystical practices or “Xon” exist in virtually every sector of social life in Senegal. Popular or “navétane” football is particularly and profoundly affected by this phenomenon, to the point of raising questions ...
This paper explores the evolution of religious experience from ancient nature worship and ancestor reverence to modern individualized spirituality.It examines how early spiritual practices were deeply intertwined with...
The Tractatus seems to promise a theory of language,which can clarify the relations between language and the world.At the same time,the terminology of the work remains indeterminate and as a result,the supposed theory...
Wittgenstein’s mysticism has been one of the focuses of critics and commentators of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.Two prevailing readings hold different attitudes towards it.The classical reading commits to the myst...
The real subject of Paul Tillich’s three-volume Systematic Theology is not God but rather the history of Tillich’s personal relationship with God.The religious experiences to which Tillich refers in this,his major w...
The philosophical horizon of this essay is theoretically comparative and hermeneutically dialogic. Its main philosophical and theological tonality expresses, in first person and through three discursive moments, the d...
Philosophical mysticism is irrational union with a transcendent reality often understood as involving an This paper challenges this assumption by examining the universal and rational potentials of mysticism. Drawing o...
William Golding's Lord of the Flies is well acknowledged as a philosophical masterpiece about human nature. Through analyzing symbolism, parable, and mysticism employed in the book, this thesis attempts to explore how...
Paul Tillich once confided to his secretary at Harvard that he was a schizophrenic. In this article, the author, who is also a schizophrenic, discusses symptoms of schizophrenia in Tillich's biography and theology. T...