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Posted Thursday December 11th, 2014

personality

By personality I understand the totality of inherited and acquired psychic qualities which are characteristic of one individual and which make the individual unique. The difference between inherited and acquired [...]

By Rainer Funk

Posted Thursday December 11th, 2014

ritual

Whether we think of the Greek drama, the medieval passion play, or an Indian dance, whether we think of Hindu, Jewish or Christian religious rituals, we are dealing with various [...]

By Rainer Funk

Posted Thursday December 11th, 2014

revolution

When we speak of the English, the French, the American revolutions, we refer to revolutions from below, and not from above; to the popular attack against authoritarian systems not to [...]

By Rainer Funk

Posted Thursday December 11th, 2014

religious experience; experience, religious

One can describe a „religious“ experience as a human experience which underlies, and is common to, certain types of theistic, as well as nontheistic, atheistic, or even antitheistic conceptualizations. What [...]

By Rainer Funk

Posted Thursday December 11th, 2014

religion

„Religion“ as I use it refers to (…) any group-shared system of thought and action that offers the individual a frame of orientation and an object of devotion. Indeed, in [...]

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