Author: selvam
APA Referencing Style
Though APA refers to American Psychology Association, APA referencing style is increasingly being used in social sciences. Many journals require the use of APA referencing style in the manuscripts submitted for publication, hence many departments are also adopting the APA referencing style.
Basically APA RefStyle uses in-text referencing. At the end of the text, the cited sources appear in a “References List”. Note that APA defers a great deal in its punctuation.
The present reference book for APA referencing style is the APA Publishing Manual – 6th Edition. As the title of the Manual suggests, it is not just about in-text referencing and references list. The Manual offers guidelines on the outline of the research report, formatting of the layout, and the use of figures and tables, among other useful hints.
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Multicultural Religious-Spirituality in Religious Life Today
Multicultural Religious-Spirituality in Religious Life Today
0.1.Change versus chaos = Integration: Interaction with other cultures and diverse worldviews – even in international religious communities – would often entail some change in my own worldview. Faced with change we fear chaos. True, too much change could bring about chaos. Fearing chaos in the face of change we might tend to fall back to rigidity. Some people tend to polarise these movements in terms of right and left, or as being conservative or progressive. The solution to this lies in integration. Virtue lies in the ‘integrated’ middle!
0.2. Truth-claims and meaning: When it comes to most truths that we hold dear – most of which are products of a certain brainwashing by the institutions of culture and religion in which we have been brought up – we need to be humble to accept that they are only ‘truth-claims’ and not the absolute truth! Therefore, in […]
Towards Religious-Spirituality: A Multidimensional Matrix of Religion and Spirituality
Selvam, S.G. (2013). Towards religious spirituality: A multidimensional matrix of religion and spirituality. Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 12(36), 129-152.
Abstract
In the contemporary study of religion there seems to be an exaggeration of the distinction between religion and spirituality, not only to the point of separation, but worse still, in terms of a superiority-inferiority hierarchy that gives rise to a value judgement between spirituality and religion. Could this be a sign of the persisting Western hegemony in the study of religion? This article suggests that the consideration of religion and spirituality as disparate entities may be necessary in some societies but not sufficient for a global perspective. Could there be an integrative model that would lend itself for an inclusive exchange in the study of religion […]
