This article argues that national identity is closely bound up with religion, which in turn is closely bound up with ideas of truth. Different religions will form and transmit different ideas of truth, both moral and cognitive, and transmit them and socialise their members in to holding them. ...
For example, the historic memorandum of understanding (MoU) that was signed by the Prime Minister and the Pakatan Harapan opposition coalition is beginning to bear fruit in terms of reforming our political system. The anti-party hopping law has been gazetted. A political financing bill will soon ...
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In relation to marriage, fidelity refers to one of the purposes of marriage. Both spouses give of themselves definitively and totally to one another. They are no longer two; from now on they form one flesh. The covenant they freely contracted imposes on the spouses the obligation to preserve...
The postcolonial theories, which picks up discourse-theory and develops it further, also considering the notion of religion is constructed in social discourse, especially in Western cultures, rejects to apply the concept or religion to non-Western cultures because such application involves “imposing on...
By way of example, Chong (2022), in his edited volume Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi, brings out the rich and deep philosophical resources of the Zhuangzi; Machek (2016) illustrated role-playing and unstructured self in the Zhuangzi. Almost no studies have explored the ...
In Part VI, we’re going to be exploring two ancient sites that are not really known to the average tourist but which were important in the world of ancient Athens: the Hill of Ardittos, and the Temple of Artemis Agrotera. We hope you find it interesting… In deciding to set An Altar...
It is less superfluous to point out that the application of Democratic Confederalism in Rojava theorised by Ocalan was not the only “left-wing experience” of the Syrian conflict. In the forgotten Eastern Ghouta, experiments in the organisation of civil society were undertaken by the rebels, ...
WHEREAS discrimination on the basis of religion, and against Muslims and those perceived as Muslims in particular, is deeply embedded within our country’s long history of racism and xenophobia; and WHEREAS there has been an unprecedented backlash since the September 11th attacks in the form of ha...
In the political literature, one also speaks of “consociationalism”. A consociational state is defined as a state which has major internal divisions along ethnic, religious, or linguistic lines, with none of the divisions large enough to form a majority group, but which nonetheless manages to...