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Midura M.

Racjonalia. Z punktu widzenia humanistyki

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2013

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vol. 3

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The fortuity can be defined both as an unpredictable case and a fate or destiny. This article will show that ambivalence of meaning on the example of phenomenon of death. The article contains three parts. The first one tells about the meaning of the fortuity of death in some archaic cultures. The next one refers to the case of the fortuity of death in medicine and its consequences. However, the last part brings up the way of presenting the fortuity of death in mass media and its influence on recipients.

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The Next Step? Suggestions for an Integrative Model for Theorising Ecstasy

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Deecke M.

Studia Religiologica

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2013

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vol. 46

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issue 3

201–215

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The article emphasises the necessity of an integral approach for theorising ecstasy and makes a suggestion for how this could be achieved. Although at first it seemed that the compelling sociological theory of ecstasy by I.M. Lewis and the psychological theories by proponents such as Abraham Maslow, Martin Buber or Theresa of Avila contradicted each other and could not both be true at the same time, it now turns out that these two sets of theories have different scopes of application that hardly overlap. They are thus not conflicting, but incommensurable and useful in different contexts. A very elegant and simple model for demonstrating this is the quadrant model by the integral theorist Ken Wilber, as it makes the diverging applicability compellingly visual. Adapting it for the academic study of ecstasy, it can thus be understood that, while sociological theories apply mostly to the occurrence of ecstasy in hierarchical societies among individuals who identify strongly with their group bespeaking their socio-material desires, psychological theories are best employed with individuals who do not strongly identify with group norms and whose ecstatic states cannot be connected with upward social mobility or means to acquire material gain.

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Wilfred Cantwell Smith i działalność Instytutu Badań Islamu (McGill University)

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Stawiński P.

Nurt SVD

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2017

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issue 1

69-78

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Artykuł omawia sylwetkę i działalność naukowo-organizacyjną Wilfreda Cantwella Smitha (1916-2000), wybitnego kanadyjskiego religioznawcy, badacza islamu, filozofa i teologa. Przedmiotem opisu jest założony przez niego w 1952 roku Instytut Badań Islamu (Institute of Islamic Studies) w McGill University, placówka o światowej renomie, znana z nowatorskiego programu studiów oraz niekonwencjonalnych, jak na owe czasy, metod współpracy przedstawicieli różnych tradycji religijnych i kulturowych. Zarówno myśl W.C. Smitha, jak i działalność Instytutu wywarły znaczący wpływ na dzisiejszy paradygmat studiów orientalistycznych oraz kooperację przedstawicieli odmiennych tradycji religijnych, głównie chrześcijańskiej i muzułmańskiej.

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Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916-2000) was a distinguished Canadian scholar of religion, Islam, philosophy and theology. In 1952 he founded the Institute of Islamic Studies at the McGill University. The Institute quickly won a wide recognition in the academia for its ingenious course of studies and unconventional – for its times – cooperation between representatives of different religious and cultural traditions. Christian, Muslim and other religious scholars today, and their collaboration in the oriental studies, own much to the influence of W.C. Smith and his Institute.

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The Next Step? Suggestions for an Integrative Model for Theorising Ecstasy

Wilfred Cantwell Smith i działalność Instytutu Badań Islamu (McGill University)