Copy of WORLDVIEW

Worldview

How does a society’s worldview and/or religious beliefs affect development?

Photo credit: marco magrini - flickr

Posts tagged academia
Academic Taboo, “Religion Not Allowed”: A Short Article Born out of Frustration

by Jim Harries

The purpose of this article is to make a case in a brief, succinct, and cutting way, for academia to take issues popularly associated with “religion” very seriously indeed. “Anthropologists have neglected Christianity for reasons that now seem implausible,” says Timothy Jenkins (Jenkins 2012, 459). Academic taboo of what is known as religion requires urgent condemnation in favor of listening to more voices, who need not be considered to be inspired by anything supernatural.

Read More