Whatever your motives, learning about different religions helps us all to understand each other better and to live more peacefully together. And that, in my view, is a very good thing! So, take a look around the site and get started at whatever point interests you. More pages are being a...
From the Upanishads came two other religious traditions, both of which share the basic fundamental beliefs of what is commonly referred to as Hinduism; these are Jainism and Buddhism. Buddhism evolved as an offshoot of Hinduism, with the same basic fundamental belief structure. There are strong li...
The Indian government has never been particularly favorable on the subject of alcohol, most likely due to Gandhi’s objection to it. In 1937, when the Indian National Congress came to power, they instituted prohibition. In 1939, the British abolished prohibition. When India gained independence in...
Buddhism beliefs and philosophy, based on the teachings of Gautama Buddha, is a branch of Eastern philosophy. Since the time of its start, Buddhism has had a firm philosophical element. Buddhist philosophy rejects a number of traditional notions like those of atheism, theism, monism, and dualism...
In the specific context of the COVID-19 outbreak, Politi et al. (2021) confirmed the specific relationship between self-transcendence values and prosociality. That is, com- pared to other values orientations, ideological beliefs, and political values, people endorsing self-transcendence values ...
Thus, some scholars have been concerned with exhibiting how it is possible to hold religious beliefs in an empiricist framework, others with showing the meaninglessness or incoherence of belief. A landmark was the publication, in 1955, of New Essays in Philosophical Theology, edited by the ...