Understanding Philosophy of Religion.

De acuerdo con las especificaciones de Estudios Religiosos de AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance) para los niveles AS y A2, el libro del profesor incluye preguntas de examen sobre filosofía de la religión necesarias para evaluar los conocimientos adquiridos (el argumento cosmológico, experiencia religiosa, psicología y religión, ateísmo y postmodernismo, debates filosóficos sobre los milagros, la creación, religión y ciencia, mecánica cuántica y una visión religiosa del mundo, argumentos ontológicos, lenguaje religioso, vida después de la muerte, la existencia del diablo).

Understanding Philosophy of Religion.

De acuerdo con las especificaciones de Estudios Religiosos de AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance) para los niveles AS y A2, el libro presenta los contenidos sobre filosofía de la religión necesarios para la superación del examen (el argumento cosmológico, experiencia religiosa, psicología y religión, ateísmo y postmodernismo, debates filosóficos sobre los milagros, la creación, religión y ciencia, mecánica cuántica y una visión religiosa del mundo, argumentos ontológicos, lenguaje religioso, vida después de la muerte, la existencia del diablo) Al final de cada capítulo se incluyen preguntas de examen para evaluar los conocimientos adquiridos.

Understanding Philosophy of Religion.

De acuerdo con las especificaciones de Estudios Religiosos de AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance) para los niveles AS y A2, el libro del profesor incluye preguntas de examen sobre filosofía de la religión necesarias para evaluar los conocimientos adquiridos (el argumento cosmológico, experiencia religiosa, psicología y religión, ateísmo y postmodernismo, debates filosóficos sobre los milagros, la creación, religión y ciencia, mecánica cuántica y una visión religiosa del mundo, argumentos ontológicos, lenguaje religioso, vida después de la muerte, la existencia del diablo).

The sociology of religion and the 'desecularisation of society'

Neste artigo, pretendo delimitar alguns dos mais importantes e recentes avanços na análise e na teorização que a Sociologia das Religiões sofreu na Alemanha, França e no mundo anglo-saxónico, nomeadamente os conceitos de "new cultural sociology", "new paradigm", e o debate sobre a dessecularização da sociedade. O centro encontra-se na crescente importancia da subjectividade e da espiritualidade. Por forma a não se reduzirem a simples aspectos teóricos, relacionamo-los com as alterações societais das sociedades modernas. Contudo, afirmamos que esta nossa abordagem foca especialmente o fenómeno descrito na Europa Central, assim como nas sociedades anglo-saxónicas. Afastando-nos deste enfoque, desejamos que também em Portugal e no Brasil se desenvolvam estudos sobre estes procesos teóricos e as suas relações com as mudanças nas sociedades.

Empires, Religion & Trade

The Indian Ocean became the meeting point of two emerging empires in the early 16th century: the Mughal and the Portuguese empires, both different in their nature and objectives. While the Mughals were the dominant land power in the Indian subcontinent, the Portuguese dominated the coastal waters and the sea lanes They influenced each other’s fortunes, and of the region as a whole.

The light representation of religion and power in sound

The thematic and anathematic in music-making a reflection occurring after listening to an art song and a pop song from the 19th and 20th century Levantine music. Bach’s Orchestral Suites keep popping up, elegantly unveiling “the truth”.

Suburban immigrants to wildlands disrupt honest signaling in ultra-violet plumage

Urbanization changes habitat in a multitude of ways, including altering food availability. Access to human-provided food can change the relationship between body condition and honest advertisements of fitness, which may result in changes to behavior, demography, and metapopulation dynamics. We compared plumage color, its relationship with body condition and feather growth, and use as signal of dominance between a suburban and a wildland population of Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens). Although plumage color was not related to body condition at either site, suburban birds had plumage with a greater proportion of total reflectance in the ultra-violet (UV) and peak reflectance at shorter wavelengths. Despite the use of plumage reflectance as a signal of dominance among individuals in the wildlands, we found no evidence of status signaling at the suburban site. However, birds emigrating from the suburban site to the wildland site tended to be more successful at acquiring breeder status but less successful at reproducing than were immigrants from an adjacent wildland site, suggesting that signaled and realized quality differ. These differences in signaling content among populations could have demographic effects at metapopulation scales and may represent an evolutionary trap whereby suburban immigrants are preferred as mates even though their reproductive success relative to effort is lower.