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Islam and Democracy: An Obscure Relationship

04/11/2013 14:23
Democracy is determined by many different elements: culture, wealth, equalities, education, and some will say, religion. Religion as a determinant of democratic development has been extensively studied and many arguments have been presented supporting the claim that religion hinders democracy,...

Machiavelli was Actually a Democrat

04/11/2013 14:21
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) was a Florentine infantry captain, magistrate and political philosopher. Most people know him only for his book ‘The Prince’ wherein he maps out how a prince should rule: Cynically, brutally and ever ready to backstab. However, what most people don’t know is that...

Conservative Critics of Modernity

04/11/2013 14:15
 Dr. Robert P. Kraynak Consider the status of democracy. Is it really the best form of government or the one toward which all nations are converging? Every serious conservative must wrestle with these questions because the deepest prejudice of our age is the belief that democracy based on...

Christianity and Democracy: Friend and Foe

04/11/2013 14:10
The stories told about the relationship between Christianity and democracy usually fall into one of two well-worn types. The first is the claim that all our democratic freedoms are owed to Christianity, in general, and Protestant Christianity specifically. This argument is both sociological and...

Democracy and Monarchy in Thailand

04/11/2013 14:05
Professor Emeritus Dr. Suchit Bunbongkarn Absolute monarchy which had prevailed in Thailand for seven centuries was replaced by constitutional monarchy through a coup by middle ranking military officers on June 24, 1932. Since then, Thailand has witnessed periodic political instability, frequent...

Democracy and "Christian Politics"

04/11/2013 14:00
By Stephen Palmquist In the past few decades many, if not most, Christians have come to assume that the only truly Christian political system is democracy.[1] Kingship has to be rejected, so the argument might go, because the Bible tells us "There is no one who does good, not even one."[2] Indeed,...

A Brief History of Government

04/11/2013 12:42
The first civilization began in the city states of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, Mexico, and other places where small communities spawned kingdoms. We can trace the history of this culture in the wars fought between kingdoms and between nomadic barbarians and the settled communities. [Read...

Jung and Dogma

04/11/2013 12:26
by Gary Seeman, Ph.D. These writings of Jung are excerpted as part of a conversation about religion, spirituality and dogma on the listserv for Division 36 – Psychology and Religion, of the American Psychological Association, in September, 2009. I promised my colleagues to research Jung’s views to...

Theosophy on Dogmatic Religions

04/11/2013 12:22
Carlos Cardoso Aveline As students of theosophy look at daily acts of violence around the world and see the dangers of nuclear proliferation or terrorist actions,  perhaps they are facing but the consequences of not having struggled hard enough - as a movement, and since the early 1890s -...

Dogmatism, Modernization and Islam

04/11/2013 12:20
by Muhammed Asadi Secularization of social thought, of worldview is an indicator of what has been described as “modernization”, a Gesellschaft, when the collective conscience and individual conscience are not in harmony. This is in contrast to a Gemeinschaft, or a community-type social system where...
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